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Sheriffs across Wisconsin remind you — they won’t call you about outstanding warrants, or take payments over the phone.  Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald says this is just the latest round of phone scams. Click below for more 715 Newsroom coverage with Jon DeMaster:

A La Crosse man with a lengthy criminal history is in jail after police say he punched an elderly man over wearing a face mask. The D.A. in La Crosse says video shows 40-year-old Danny Link throw a haymaker at an older man outside of local Walgreens on Saturday. The older man says he asked Link to wear a face mask in the store. Link has 15 open cases in La Crosse County, and he’s currently being held on 25-hundred

Wisconsin is going to need a shipment of coronavirus vaccine if the state wants to keep pace in getting people the shot. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said they’ve received under five-thousand doses so far this week. Wisconsin has been averaging about 200-thousand-doses per-week since the end of January. DHS Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk says Wisconsin has gotten only about a quarter of the vaccine doses it needs to make sure everyone who is eligible for a shot can get one.

The University of Wisconsin would be the big winner under Governor Tony Evers’ building budget. The governor yesterday unveiled a two-point-four billion-dollar plan to build dozens of university buildings, a new state government hub in Milwaukee, and a new juvenile prison. There’s also a long list of smaller, local projects the governor is pushing. The Republicans who will write the state’s next budget say there are a few good ideas in the governor’s spending plan. But they say most of it is

Wisconsin’s attorney general is going on the record for student loan forgiveness. Click to hear more 715 Newsroom coverage with Jon DeMaster: A-G Josh Kaul yesterday joined 15 other states in calling for Congress to forgive up to 50-thousand-dollars in student loans for anyone who borrowed money through a federally backed loan program. Kaul says the skyrocketing cost of college has left too many people with debt they cannot pay. Attorneys general from Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois,

There could be some changes coming to Kohl’s. Bloomberg reported yesterday that a group of activist investors have set their sights on the company and want to make some changes. The investors say Kohl’s has chronically underperformed. Their plan is to eliminate some sales and sell some property to boost earnings. The investors own a little more than nine-and-half-percent of Kohl’s shares, making them the company’s largest shareholder.

Former President Trump’s challenges to the November election in Wisconsin are over.  The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to hear the former president’s case.  Trump’s lawyers were challenging the ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court that said the former President waited too long to sue over absentee voting and indefinitely confined ballots.  The U.S. Supreme Court did not issue an opinion, instead simply refusing to take-up the case.

Nationally, President Biden is honoring the 500-thousand Americans who have died from the coronavirus. He called it “grim” and “heartbreaking, ” but urged Americans to “resist becoming numb to the sorrow” of the pandemic.  Biden also held a moment of silence and insisted the country needs to remember those who fell victim to the virus.  The U.S. crossed the milestone Monday, and continues to lead the world in most deaths and cases. Here in our state we continue to see

On Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 9:47 PM, the Dunn County Communications Center received a report of a head-on crash on US Highway 12/29 near the intersection of 670th Street in the Town of Red Cedar, East of Menomonie. The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office, Wisconsin State Patrol, and Menomonie Fire Department responded to the scene. Upon arrival, deputies determined that an eastbound 2015 Toyota Tundra crossed the center line and struck a westbound 2000 GMC Sierra. One operator attempted to