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A Chippewa Falls man received a 5th OWI after a traffic stop.   57 year old Gary A. Hedrington, was stopped a bit after 8 on the night of December 31st. A trooper stopped the vehicle for having a defective headlamp on Highway 27 near the City of Ladysmith. The driver was identified as Gary A. Hedrington and showed signs of impairment. A subsequent investigation, including standardized field sobriety testing, showed that Hedrington was operating a motor vehicle while impaired

You will no longer be going to Miller Park to watch a Brewers baseball game.  The stadium is officially renamed American Family Field as of today.  American Family Insurance took over the naming rights of the stadium as of January 1st and the new agreement lasts for at least the next 15 years.  The company is based in Madison.

 More states could be legalizing marijuana in 2021.  Sara Bartlett has the story. Heading into the new calendar year means that states will see new laws take effect as well. Many states will increase their minimum wage as companies in California with 26 or more employees will have to pay them at least 14-dollars an hour.  Police officers in Connecticut must have their badge and name tag prominently displayed when they come into contact with the public or make an

Unemployment is mixed in Wisconsin in the final week of 2020. First time claims are up two-percent as continuing claims are down eight-percent.  In Eau Claire, more people filed first time claims than last week. Ongoing claims in the county are down slightly.

An exhibit about the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 is up virtually at the Pablo Center. The exhibit was co-curated with a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Dr. Selika Ducksworth-Lawton. In a message from the Co-Curator, Dr. Ducksworth-Lawton says the pieces show the freedom movements of today. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE.

The number-six Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team beat fellow Big-Ten rival, number-21 Minnesota last night. The Badgers beat the Golden Gophers 71-to-59. Minnesota recently beat the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, an impressive victory for the team. The Hawkeyes were then number-three.

Hey, it’s NOT 2020 anymore! The new year is here.  From the celebrations, to the resolutions. From the health tips, to the words we want to forget, scroll on for dip into the first few moments of 2021. Millions of Americans from coast to coast rang in 2021 at midnight, finally putting 2020 in the rearview mirror.  Dean Miuccio has more about what that looked like around the world: In London, barriers were erected in Trafalgar Square, and police on

A pharmacist at the Aurora Health Clinic in Grafton is in jail as state and federal investigators try and figure out a motive in the case of those spoiled coronavirus vaccines. Grafton Police arrested the man yesterday, they did not name him, but the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said 46-year-old Steven Brandenburg was booked into jail yesterday on charges in the case. Those charges include felony criminal damage to property and second-degree recklessly endangering safety charges. Aurora Health originally said about

The jump in coronavirus positives in Wisconsin is likely due to more testing or more tests being processed than an increase in the virus. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported just over 38 hundred new positives. That’s the highest number in nearly two weeks. But those 38 hundred positives are less than half what Wisconsin was seeing during November’s peak. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

A handful of distilleries in Wisconsin are getting a break for doing the right thing. The FDA yesterday cancelled the 14 thousand-dollar fee it was planning to charge distillers in the state, and across the country, for turning their liquor into hand sanitizer. The FDA said distillers that rushed to make hand sanitizer during this spring’s shortage failed to register as drug makers.