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Eau Claire police say a person threatened to strip naked and walk into traffic before being arrested. In the department’s notable case log, police say officers responded to someone in a parking lot on the south side of Eau Claire Monday around midnight. They say the person was temporarily homeless and demanded officers provide them with a place to stay. Police say they informed the person of possible resources in Eau Claire, but the person was unsatisfied. They were arrested

Chippewa Falls police are warning against a few common holiday scams. Police say scammers call victims and claim social security numbers have been flagged for various crimes, so the victim must pay a fee with gift cards or the police will come and arrest them. Another scam hacks or copies another’s social media account claiming to be a close relative or friend needing money to get out of jail, which is also to be paid in gift cards. Police say

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s coronavirus dashboard gets an A-minus from We-Rate-COVID-Dashboards. The online rating platform claims it’s a work in progress, but established criteria about how easy the dashboards at colleges and universities across the country are to read, how often they’re updated, what data is available for students and the community, and more. The student newspaper, The Spectator reports only 34-of-318 colleges received an A or higher. 

Love Christian Church in Menomonie is giving away free Thanksgiving meals next week.  The meals include turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberries, a salad, and pie.  Love Church will provide up to 300-servings to families across the Chippewa Valley. They say volunteers will wear masks and prepare the food in a sanitized commercial kitchen. The meals are first come, first serve and can be reserved by registering online.

 Wisconsin’s governor is out with his proposal to help the state get past the coronavirus. Governor Tony Evers yesterday introduced a 541-million-dollar coronavirus relief package. The highlights include an extension of unemployment benefits and eliminating the requirement that people look for work, a ban on evictions and foreclosures, and suspending another year of standardized testing for Wisconsin schools. The package would also allow healthcare workers to collect workers’ comp if they test positive for the coronavirus. Of the 541-million-dollars the governor wants

The death toll from the coronavirus in Wisconsin just jumped. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 92 coronavirus deaths. That is the most in a single day since Wisconsin started tracking the virus back in March. Since March, just over 27 hundred people in the state have died with the virus. DHS’s numbers show that almost 80 percent of those deaths are among people older than 70-years-old. When it comes to the vaccine, doctors, nurses, and people who work in nursing homes

Wisconsin’s 72 counties have done their job, for now, with the 2020 election. The state’s Elections Commission yesterday verified the voter canvases from all 72 counties in the state. The Elections Commission will now move to certify the vote. The only thing that could delay that is a recount. Based on those cavasses, Democrats Joe Biden and Kamala Harris defeated President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence by 20,612 votes. The Trump campaign has indicated that it plans to

Eau Claire is a step closer to a new ShopKo Optical and a new Chipotle on the city’s southwest side. The city’s plan commission on Monday signed off on the proposals to build new buildings at the site of the old ShopKo on Clairemont. There’s no word when work could begin, or when the new shops will open.

Eau Claire County’s sheriff has a new tool to help with search and rescues. Dennis Frandsen, the owner of Frandsen Bank and Trust this week gave the sheriff’s department a 12 thousand-dollar thermal drone. The idea is to use the drone to find people who wander off or get lost in the woods. Frandsen says he saw how well the drone worked in other communities and wanted to try it here.

There will be a lot of blaze orange across the rural parts of Wisconsin this weekend. The state’s nine-day gun deer season starts Saturday. Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources says it sold over 343 thousand gun-only hunting permits this year. The state is reminding hunters of the usual hunter safety advice, but is adding a warning about spreading the coronavirus at deer camp this year.