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President Trump brings his 2020 Campaign to Janesville where he spoke before thousands during a rally.  The event took place yesterday evening outside the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport.  Staffers took rally goers’ temperatures and distributed facemasks.  According to multiple media outlets, not many people at the rally wore the masks nor observed social distancing.  During the rally, President Trump was criticizing the Democratic governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers, for coronavirus restrictions at the same time the state is seeing a spike in cases. 

Good morning and welcome to your weekend. Each Saturday, we start the day with a peek at the days before this one to see what has happened on this date in previous years. So, grab your favorite morning sippin’ drink as we take a “scroll down memory lane.” Today is Saturday, October 17th, the 291st day of the year.  There are 75 days until the end of the year. On this day: In 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant is named

The state’s COVID-19 electronic data management system is to be upgraded over this weekend.  The Department of Health Services says there will be an outage in the system to allow for some improvements to be made.  The Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System is used by local and tribal jurisdictions, health care providers and public health officials to collect and keep track of COVID-19 info.  The system shutdown started yesterday evening.  The upgraded system will roll out Monday and Tuesday.

 Trump supporters are getting ready for a 2020 Trump campaign rally in Janesville. The President is bringing his re-election campaign to the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport this afternoon.  The rally gets underway at 6:00-p.m.  But as the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse Doctor Rob Freeland says he wants the President to cancel the rally because rally goers don’t generally observe social distancing.   Freeland also claims the President spreads COVID-19 misinformation which places the listeners in danger. On

Madison based non profit the Foundation for Black Women’s Wellness receives a million dollar grant.  The grant money comes from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health through its Wisconsin Partnership Program.  Yesterday, WMTV reported that the grant money will go toward the launch of the Well Black Women Institute which will train black women on how to establish unencumbered health access in Dane, Rock and Milwaukee counties.  The first group of trainees will be established in 2022.

A woman was killed while crossing the road . It happened on Friday, October 16th a little after 9 on the moring. The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a pedestrian struck by a vehicle on Hwy 312 near North Town Hall Road. Preliminary investigation indicates that a 59-year-old woman from Illinois, was attempting to cross Hwy 312 when she was struck by a vehicle travelling westbound on Hwy 312. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at

Following a virtual and socially distanced graduation ceremony Oct. 14, the 16 members of the Chippewa Valley Technical College Law Enforcement Academy Summer 2020 graduating class went outside the Emergency Services Education Center and found they were not so alone after all. Usually, family members of the graduates and representatives of the law enforcement departments attend the ceremony, but because of COVID-19, the graduates sat six feet apart, while family members followed the proceedings online. Later, they found a group

Health officials confirm 21 COVID-19 deaths in Wisconsin over the past day.  That includes local spikes as well as Chippewa reports over 100 new cases, and Eau Claire over 50 confirmed positive tests. In our state, tere were also 135 new hospitalizations in the last 24 hours.  Over a thousand coronavirus patients are being treated in hospitals.  About 85-percent of all hospital beds statewide are occupied with about 86-percent of ICU beds being used. Health officials from three counties with very high

The average cost of regular gas in Wisconsin dips below two-dollars-a-gallon.  Triple-A says the price per gallon in the Badger State is 1.98 today, three-cents-a-gallon lower than last Friday.  The price at the pump is 1.86 a gallon in Appleton, 1.95 in Green Bay, Racine, Kenosha County and Eau Claire and 1.98 in Madison. 

Remember this guy from last month?  We’ll spark your memory: 88-year-old Brad Hathaway of Massachusetts has long been on a mission to walk 24,901 miles . . . the exact circumference of the Earth.  And, after 32 years, he finally hit his goal this past weekend. CLICK BELOW TO HEAR THE STORY FROM OUR 715 NEWSROOM: YOU CAN HEAR THE FRIDAY FEEL GOOD EVERY FRIDAY AT 2:45pm ON GREATEST HITS 98.1