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Health officials say Dane County has surpassed 100 COVID hospitalizations for the first time.  A third of them are in intensive care and five children are in pediatric care.  Dane County Executive Joe Parisi says the medical community is putting a heavy emotional and physical toll on the medical community, and says epidemiologists think the worst is yet to come.

Former Wisconsin Badgers running back Jonathan Taylor has his own bobblehead.  The limited edition toy was released recently by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum.  It features Taylor wearing a red number 23 jersey, holding a football and riding a badger on a base with the UW-Madison school logo. Taylor was the NCAA’s sixth all-time leading rusher and won the Doak Walker Award twice, recognizing the top running back in college football.

On October 21st at 5:03 pm, Sawyer County Deputies assisted by the Wisconsin State Patrol, Sawyer County EMS and the Exeland Fire Department responded to a vehicle vs train crash near the intersection of State Highway 48 and Canaday Road in the Town of Weirgor.  Upon arrival, deputies learned that a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado driven by 53 year old Jeffery A. Waite, of Exeland was traveling east on State Highway 48 and made a right turn on to Canaday road.

 Prevea Health will open a new COVID-19 testing site in Eau Claire at 950 W. Clairemont Ave., the location of the former wound clinic at HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital, on Oct. 26. The current Prevea Health COVID-19 testing site in Eau Claire, located at Prevea Family Medicine, 617 W. Clairemont Ave., will close Oct. 24. COVID-19 testing with Prevea Health in the Chippewa Valley is available for free to anyone experiencing one or more of the following symptoms: Cough; fever;

Chippewa Valley COVID-19 hospitalizations are up 52-percent in the last week.  Eau Claire City-County Health Director Lieske Giese says the rise in hospitalizations and deaths is a bad sign that Northern Wisconsinites aren’t doing their part to slow the spread.  Over 100 people in Eau Claire County have been hospitalized for COVID-19.  State health officials say people should avoid gatherings with anyone outside of their household.  MORE FROM THE CITY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT HERE

Eau Claire police say two people needed a talking-to after a political argument at a grocery store.  Police say it happened when the first person confronted the second about improperly wearing their mask inside the store and made negative comments about the person’s political hat.  They claim the other person then rammed a shopping cart into their leg.  The other person says they first pushed them into some shelves.  Police say no witnesses or video surveillance footage was available.  Both

The final Presidential Debate aired last night. If you missed the full 90 minutes, click below for a recap. Mark Mayfield brings us more on the Road To The White House: In other notes from the stage, President Trump vowed to always protect people with pre-existing conditions, even if the Supreme Court repeals the Affordable Care Act.  On the other side, Former VP Joe Biden pledged to strengthen Obamacare and he mocked Trump’s claims that the White House is poised

A former Chippewa Falls man is looking at prison time for stealing about four million-dollars from the Pentagon. A jury in Madison convicted Craig Klund of scamming the Pentagon 30 years ago by using fake companies and billing the government for work that was never done. He moved to South Dakota about two years ago to try to hide from investigators. This is not Klund’s first conviction for bilking the government. He spent two years in prison in the 1990’s

The coronavirus has a lot more people enrolling to get food stamps in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services’ most recent numbers show about 70 thousand more families are enrolled in FoodShare than a year ago. There were huge spikes in the program in both April and August this year. State Rep. Janel Brandtjen says the increases are alarming. She says many of the people on food stamps are the same people who’ve been left waiting by Governor Evers for