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In a week, Chippewa County is reporting five deaths from COVID-19. Friday, the Chippewa County Health Department reported a second death and over the weekend three more people died. There have been just over eleven-hundred total coronavirus cases reported in the county since the beginning of the pandemic.  Over 100 new cases were reported in Chippewa County yesterday.

A missing 13-year-old girl is believed to have run away with a 14-year-old boy. The Stanley Police Department posted to Facebook saying Rose Sprinkle went missing around midnight Monday. She was last seen wearing a black shirt and black pants. Police say they think Rose could be with Zachary Haas who was reported missing Sunday evening. Rose is five-feet-two-inches with long brown hair.  PHOTO CREDIT: WEAU 13 NEWS

It is low, but not zero.  Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday said the threat of voter fraud is low. Kaul said voters in Wisconsin can have faith in the results on Election Day. While he believes the threat of voter fraud is low, Kaul is reminding people that it is a crime to vote twice, or cast a ballot in Wisconsin when you are not allowed to. Connected to that, the increase in absentee voting is going to come with an increase in the

Already? Looks like it’s true…we will be seeing snow in October. Will it be two inches, or five? Forecasters say the snow storm that will blanket Minnesota and western Wisconsin today could drop as much as five inches of snow. It’s not clear just how much of that snow will fall in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. The Chippewa Valley is under a winter weather advisory from 10 this morning until 10 o’clock tonight.

Bars and restaurants in Wisconsin are once again going to have to keep a count of their customers. A judge yesterday reinstated Governor Evers’ order that limits bars, restaurants, supper clubs, and more stores in the state to just 25 percent of their capacity. The judge said the state’s Tavern League failed to prove the order actually hurt anyone’s business. Governor Evers yesterday said it is an important ruling that will keep people safe. Behind the bench, it’s a Barron County judge who

The woman who ran Helping Hands for our Children in Eau Claire is now accused of stealing from the charity. Prosecutors on Friday filed charges against Shauna Hanson of Fall Creek. Investigators say she misused or misspent 63 thousand-dollars in donations over the past three years. Hanson is accused of accepting donations, then depositing the money into her personal account. She’s due back in court next month.

The Wisconsin man accused of being part of the plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor is out of jail. Lawyers for Brian Higgins yesterday said he posted ten-thousand-dollars bail and surrendered his passport. Higgins is accused of allowing members of the Wolverine Watchmen to use his night vision goggles to do surveillance at Michigan’s governor’s cottage. Higgins’ lawyer says the evidence against him is thin. He’s hoping to get Michigan prosecutors to drop the charges.

 Wisconsin is turning to Google’s algorithm to help clear the state’s backlog of unemployment claims. The Department of Workforce Development yesterday announced a new partnership with Google Cloud to help speed-up the approval of nearly a half-million unemployment claims. Some of those date all the way back to March. DWD says Google’s computers will use ‘predictive analytics based on historical data’ to figure out who should be paid going forward. There’s no price tag for how much it will all cost.

Work will begin soon on La Crosse’s new classroom project. The city’s schools are looking to spend almost five million-dollars to add classrooms, a new gymnasium, a new library, and community school center at Hamilton Elementary. Hamilton is one of La Crosse’s two year-round schools.

There are already a lot of people who’ve voted in Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday said its numbers show some communities in the state have already seen half of their voters from 2016 cast a ballot. Some cities are even higher. The report says absentee voting is driving the early voting spike. Those numbers are expected to go up. Today is the first day for in-person absentee voting in the state. The increase in absentee voting is going to come