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The latest election lawsuit in Wisconsin asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to allow Wisconsin’s state legislature to decide who won the presidential race. A group called the Wisconsin Voters Alliance yesterday asked the court to stop the Wisconsin Elections Commission from certifying the state’s vote in December, and instead allow the legislature to name Wisconsin’s electors. The lawsuit also asks the court to require Governor Evers to accept those electors and their decision.

Close to 300 nursing home residents across the state are dead from COVID-19 in the last month.  The latest report shows that 294 residents had died of coronavirus between October 12th and November 8th, up from just 28 the previous month.  The number of cases in nursing homes has also skyrocketed in the last month.  Two-thousand-130 cases were confirmed in the last month compared to 387 in the month prior.  While nursing home residents make up a small percentage of

Nearly 400 unopened absentee ballots from Milwaukee’s south side are uncounted after being discovered during the recount Tuesday morning.  Election officials say the 386 ballots were not opened or counted on Election Day due to “human error” at Milwaukee’s central count.  They say the ballots were received in a timely manner and the Milwaukee County Elections’ Board has voted unanimously to count the unopened ballots. 

The Golden Gophers football team won’t travel to the University of Wisconsin this weekend because of COVID-19. The University of Minnesota says the football team will pause all team-related activities after nine student-athletes and six-staff members tested positive for COVID-19 in the last five days. The game is not going to be rescheduled and will be called no contest. It’s the first year since 1906 the teams won’t play a game the Saturday after Thanksgiving. 

The home of the Brewers will have a new name come next year, and the logo for the new name could be up around the stadium by February.  Miller Park will officially become American Family Field as of January 1, 2021.  The new name for the stadium was announced last January as part of a new 15-year partnership and naming rights agreement.  Miller Park originally opened in 2001 to replace Milwaukee County Stadium.

Becoming familiar with the language and culture of a new nation is challenging enough for immigrants. Add to that the challenge of starting a new food-related business during a pandemic and economic downturn, and you arrive at what the lives of the Pereira family members are currently. 60 year old Miriam, and 61 year old Geraldo Pereira, Sr., arrived in the Chippewa Valley last year from their native Brazil. They are taking English Language Learner classes through Chippewa Valley Technical

A Columbus Contractor was charged with withholding tax theft. 59 year old Norman D. Vick, Jr. of Columbus, Wisconsin, owner of Norm Vick Construction, was recently charged with one count of felony theft of Wisconsin withholding taxes. According to the criminal complaint, between 2005 and 2014, Vick employed 57 employees who were subject to Wisconsin withholding tax.  During that time, more than $103,520 of Wisconsin income taxes were withheld from the paychecks of these employees.  Vick did not remit these withheld

For the first time ever, a University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire faculty member from the College of Business has received the top national award for teaching from the prestigious Association for Business Communication (ABC). Dr. Paula Lentz, professor of business communication, became the 31st instructor recognized by the ABC for outstanding contributions to the academic discipline of business communication. A member of the Blugold faculty since 1999, Lentz serves as the academic program director for the department of business communication, director

Mayo Clinic Eau Claire is moving some COVID-19 patients into an ambulance garage as cases surge across the Midwest. The hospital filled four-beds in the garage in mid-November when they were first installed, but they haven’t been used since. A spokesperson for the hospital says the environment isn’t ideal, but it’s a comfortable and clean temporary solution, until more beds become available.

Eau Claire police say a person is arrested after punching several people in a bar on the West side, including the bartender. Police say it happened last night around midnight, and the person also stabbed the bartender in the stomach with a pocket knife. Police say the person was arrested for disorderly conduct, resisting, battery and threats to police, endangering safety, felony carrying a concealed knife, and a warrant.