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We know who died in Oconomowoc on Wednesday, and how they died, but we do not know why. Waukesha County Sheriff Eric Severson yesterday identified the victims at the Roundy’s warehouse as 51-year-old Kevin Kloth from Germantown and 39-year-old Kevin Schneider from Milwaukee. Both men were shot. But the sheriff is not saying what led to their deaths. There are also few answers about the suspect, 41-year-old Fraron Cornelius. We also learned that there was a couple-hour gap between Kloth

There’s a push to get people who are currently eligible for the coronavirus vaccine to get the shot as quickly as possible. Eau Claire’s city-county health department says 70 percent of people in the county will become eligible for the vaccine as of Monday. That means that people who are eligible now will have to wait longer for an available shot. Monday is the day when anyone 16 to 64 with a pre-existing medical condition becomes eligible for the vaccine

Wisconsin could hit the key milestone in its fight against the coronavirus by the Fourth of July. DHS deputy secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk yesterday said the state could reach herd immunity by July. Herd immunity would mean vaccinating 80-percent of people 16-and-up. Willems Van Dijk says the state should have enough vaccine doses by then. It may be trickier, however, to get all of those doses into people’s arms. Willems Van Dijk said last week that a lot of people

Wisconsin is adding nearly a thousand deaths to the coronavirus death toll in the state’s nursing homes. The Department of Health Services yesterday ‘updated’ its coronavirus data. The deaths were already part of the nearly 65 hundred deaths reported over the past year, but they were not linked to nursing homes or group homes until this week. The update means that 45 percent of Wisconsin’s virus-related deaths can be traced back to nursing or group homes. Almost 92 percent of people who

Governor Tony Evers’ latest stop to sell his Badger Bounce Back plan was in Madison with small business owners. The governor is trying to find support for his state budget that would raise taxes and spend more than a billion-dollars more than the current state budget. The governor told small business owners yesterday that his investments would help the state recover from the coronavirus. Republican lawmakers have made it clear, however, that the governor’s budget is dead on arrival.

The state of Wisconsin is following the IRS’ lead. The state yesterday said it is delaying this year’s tax filing deadline until May 17th. Interest and penalties on state taxes are also being delayed until May. The Department of Revenue says the delay will help about half of the taxpayers in the state. The other half have already filed their taxes.

Nearly a year after unemployment spiked in Wisconsin, the state’s unemployment office is moving toward updating its call center. The Department of Workforce Development yesterday announced a one-point-two million-dollar deal with the federal government that will allow the state to have people man DWD’s call center 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The money is coming from a federal grant. The plan is just for the call center, and not for DWD’s outdated computer system. Governor Evers wants 80

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly says he’s not going to expand welfare, no matter how much the federal government is willing to give the state. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos yesterday said he will not support expanding BadgerCare. There is a new push to add more people to the state’s healthcare program because the new federal spending package includes a one billion-dollar sweetener for the state. The federal government was already offering Wisconsin 600 million-dollars to add mainly single, able bodied, young men

Members of Congress are asking the companies that make Seresto flea and tick collars to recall the product after a report showing it led to roughly 17-hundred deaths in pets.  A House subcommittee sent a letter to Elanco requesting the recall and for customers to be refunded their money.  Another letter was sent to Bayer asking for information about the collars.  USA Today reported earlier this month the EPA has received over 75-thousand reports linking the collars to pet and

On March 18, 2021, the Menomonie Police Department received information that Michael Polzin hadreturned to his residence in the City of Menomonie, 1802 5th St. W. #6. He had previous pending charges of felony fleeing an officer, felony bail jumping, and obstructing an officer. Due to the dangerous behavior displayed by Polzin during recent incidents, a perimeter was established by MPD officers and tenants were evacuated from the apartment complex while an arrest warrant was obtained. The Eau Claire County