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Wisconsin health officials are reporting an additional five-thousand-95 coronavirus cases on Thursday.  This pushes the state’s total to over  374-thousand-500 cases.   The coronavirus killed 62 more people in the state, bumping the death toll up to three-thousand-240 people.  Of the positive cases, over 16-thousand-600 people have been hospitalized.

A drug bust turned up meth headed to a small town in our area. It was on November 23rd when the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office and West Central Drug Task Force Investigators were tracking a large shipment of methamphetamine from the City of Menomonie which was being transported to the Village of Boyceville. Based on information received a traffic stop was initiated on the suspect’s vehicle by a Dunn County Deputy. During this stop the deputy, a Drug Recognition Expert,

Opening weekend for gun deer season is showing higher turnout from last year. More hunters statewide were able to get a buck or a doe in the first weekend of the nine-day season. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reports more than 95-thousand deer were hunted during opening weekend, compared to just over 93-thousand last year. And after two accidental harvests, Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources is asking hunters to watch out for elk. According to the D-N-R, around 400-elk roam around Wisconsin and many

It’s here! A day to give thanks, ask for seconds (okay, 3rd’s…4th’s?) and soak up some family time. Today is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is marked in a variety of ways in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the original home of the pilgrims.  Plymouth Rock typically draws tourists, although the story of the rock is probably more legend than truth, since there is no evidence that the pilgrims actually stepped onto the rock when they came ashore in 1620.  The legend began in 1740, when one of the

A good number of people in the Chippewa Valley are cooking two Thanksgiving dinners today. Volunteers will serve meals to those in need in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. Folks at the Hope Gospel Mission started their prep yesterday. They figure they’ll serve 500 meals today. Their kitchen is open from 11:30 til 1:30. And our troops are planning to feast as well. The Defense Department is changing Thanksgiving dinner plans for troops serving overseas.  Bill Trifiro explains:

There’s no ‘why’ yet, but we know “who”. Dunn County prosecutors yesterday filed formal first-degree homicide charges against three people for the beating death of 37-year-old Bruce McGuigan. Deputies found him dead in his home last week. Investigators are not offering a motive for the crime. All three suspects are being held in the Dunn County Jail. FOR MORE ON THIS STORY AND COMPLETE SUSPECT DETAILS CLICK HERE

The counting is almost over in Milwaukee County. Electron managers yesterday said they have only 65 ballots left to count as part of their presidential recount. Milwaukee Election Commission director Claire Woodall-Vogg said the 65 ballots were found inside a voting machine. Outside of those few ballots, Woodall-Vogg says there is a lot of paperwork to finish before the recount can be declared complete.

The Wisconsin National Guard is ending its biggest coronavirus mission of the year. The guard yesterday transferred control of the Miller Park coronavirus testing site to the city of Milwaukee. The city’s health department will now oversee what is the largest testing site in the state. The guard has been leading the way on testing in Wisconsin since May. Managers at one of Eau Claire’s hospitals expect to be busier after Thanksgiving. Mayo Clinic doctors say they expect coronavirus numbers in the Chippewa Valley

Someone at La Crosse’s airport is in trouble for leaving a loaded handgun in their bag. The TSA yesterday said it found a loaded, 22-caliber pistol in the man’s luggage. No one is saying if he simply forgot the gun was there, or if there’s something more nefarious. The fine for bringing a gun through an airport’s checkpoint is at least four-thousand-dollars.

We now have more information in a Dunn County homicide. It was on November 17th at approximately 3:42 PM, when a homicide investigation was initiated regarding a death at N2564 440th St in Dunn Township. Dunn County Sheriff’s Deputies initially responded to the residence to check the welfare of an occupant of the residence. Deputies located a deceased adult, white, male in the residence. At that time the name of the deceased was unknown. One suspect was taken into custody