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President Trump said the enthusiasm in Wisconsin doesn’t feel like he’s looking at a defeat. The President rallied a crowd of thousands in West Salem yesterday, that’s in La Crosse County. The President said he is expecting a red wave next week. President Trump carried western Wisconsin four years ago, and he is expected to carry the area with ease again this year. President Trump says Biden wants to end cash bail. President Trump is not only taking credit for ending the nights of

 Wisconsin’s latest coronavirus count is the highest it’s ever been. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported over five-thousand new positive tests and 64 new deaths. Both are single-day highs. Most of the people who are tested in the state continue to test negative, though Wisconsin’s weekly positivity rate is now over 12- percent. There are over 13-hundred people in the hospital with the virus, and five people are being treated at the state’s overflow hospital in West Allis. CLICK

Police in Eau Claire say a package thief is behind bars. Officers arrested Kalysta Griffin yesterday morning. Police say she is a suspect in a string of thefts from people’s porches. Eau Claire Police say they found some stolen packages in Griffin’s car when they arrested her.

It’s not every day that an OWI arrest makes statewide news, but it’s also not every day that someone is arrested for their 12th OWI. Prosecutors in Sauk County this week charged 51-year-old Walter Decorah with his 12th drunk driving charge. Authorities say they found him slumped behind the wheel of his car while stopped at a stop sign. He’s being held on 15-thousand-dollars bond.

The Green Bay Packers are sending 250-thousand-dollars to a handful of social justice projects. The team announced the grants yesterday. Building Our Future, The Mary Lou & Arthur F. Mahone Fund, 100 Black Men of Madison, the Urban League of Greater Madison, and Leaders Igniting Transformation will all get 50 thousand-dollars each. This is the Packers’ second social justice donation of 2020. The team sent 150-thousand-dollars to some social justice programs earlier in the year.

It’s not just Wisconsin’s quarterbacks who could miss this Saturday’s game against Nebraska, the entire team may be a scratch. Sources told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday that the team’s positivity rate is close to the threshold of canceling the game. Wisconsin quarterbacks Graham Mertz and Chase Wolf tested positive for the virus this week. If Wisconsin cannot play, the Big Ten has said it will not reschedule the game this season.

A train versus semi crash had personell on the scene just before 11:30 on Tuesday, October 27th. Emergency personnel were on the scene of a train versus semi collision at N 18th St & E Division Ave in Barron. Traffic was reduced to one lane on N 18th St and was periodically closed throughout the day for heavy equipment access.

It is another record-setting day for COVID-19 cases and deaths in Wisconsin.  The Department of Health Services today says there were over 52-hundred positive tests and 64 deaths from the coronavirus in the past day.  The numbers are the highest recorded in the state to date.  There have been 220 people admitted to hospitals with COVID-19 since yesterday.

President Trump is in Wisconsin for a rally in West Salem.  The president and vice president are campaigning in the battleground state with a week to go until the election.  Trump is in West Salem at Motorsports Management Company and Vice President Mike Pence returns to the state tomorrow for an afternoon event at Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee. 

The World Championship Cheese Contest is postponed for another year.  The event had been planned for February but organizers today say it has been moved to early March of 2022.  Officials say after studying the options for next year they decided the industry would be best served by pausing the championship until 2022.