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As of right now, local schools will make their own decisions about when and how to return to school next month. Governor Tony Evers yesterday said he has no secret plan to order schools across the state to start the new school year online. There are a lot of lawmakers in Madison who say they have heard the opposite. The governor says schools in larger cities and communities have different challenges from the coronavirus than schools in more rural parts

The state justice department is putting out a warning of a sophisticated counterfeit ring working its way through the state. Brown County Sheriff’s detective Roman Aronstein says the group has been making one hundred dollar bills that pass basic inspections. Jon Demaster brings us more with 715 Newsroom coverage. The bills will pass a marker test, but when held up to the light, the security strips on these bills read ten instead of one hundred. Aronstein says the bills have turned

A missing Altoona woman’s family is asking for help. Angela Coffield’s family says she’s been missing since last week, and she left home without anything. Altoona Police confirm Coffield left home without her phone, purse, medication, or her credit cards. Her family says she’s struggled with mental health problems in the past. They are very worried for her safety. Her pictures are online, Altoona Police say anyone who knows anything about her whereabouts should call them immediately.

Students, teachers, school staff, and parents are going to need masks when Eau Claire schools open next month. The city’s school board last night approved a mask requirement. Superintendent Michael Johnson says he knows some people can’t wear a mask, and he knows it may be tough for young kids to keep their masks on, but he says it’s necessary. Eau Claire schools are looking to start classes on September 1st. CLICK HERE FOR AN EASY LINK TO MORE INFO

Wisconsin’s dip in positive coronavirus tests is not expected to last. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported just 404 new positive tests. DHS reported over six thousand negative tests. The low numbers are part of the weekly cycle that dips at the beginning of each week. Wisconsin’s daily positive-test-rate is just above five-and-a-half percent.

All signs are pointing to a record absentee voter turn-out this year. The Wisconsin Election Commission yesterday said more than 300 thousand people have returned an absentee ballot for this month’s primary election. That is three-times the number of people who voted absentee in the 2018 primary, and four-times as many as in the 2016 primary. WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe says the numbers hint that many more people will vote absentee in November. She is expecting more than two million people to

The National Night Out is the latest coronavirus related cancellation in Eau Claire. Planners yesterday said they are canceling this year’s event out of fear of spreading the virus. Eau Claire Police say they hope to find a way to have at least a few events or meetings this year. National Night Out is designed to get people out, to meet their police officers and neighbors in an effort to make neighborhoods safer.

The graffiti on the outside of Wisconsin’s Veterans Museum will come down this week. Crews said they plan to start cleaning the outside of the building tomorrow. Veterans’ groups have demanded for weeks that someone clean the building. The state’s VA says the work was delayed so they could figure out how best to clean the sensitive stone.

Today is the Cookie Monster’s favorite day of the year because it’s national chocolate chip cookie day.  The creation of the beloved cookie is credited to baker Ruth Graves Wakefield who accidentally made the cookies while working at the Toll House inn in 1938.  She was planning on making chocolate cookies but the chocolate she used did not melt, but instead left chocolate chunks and created the chocolate chip cookie.  Wakefield agreed to let Nestle use her recipe on the

A U.S. Marine from Oak Creek, Wisconsin is one of eight servicemen believed killed during a training mission in Southern California.  Private first class Evan Bath was officially identified as one of the missing this morning.  The training accident happened Thursday during an amphibious assault vehicle accident near San Clemente Island.  Private Bath was 19-years-old.