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A new online tool could help people make safe choices to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services launched a COVID-19 Decision Tool that takes users through a set of questions that could help them assess the risk level in the area and make decisions about attending large gatherings and wearing personal protective equipment. Eau Claire City-County Health Director Lieske Giese said it’s a useful tool. It can be found on the Department of Health Services

The Eau Claire County Board of Supervisors is deciding how to move forward after a one-point-two-million-dollar accounting error was found in the Department of Human Services Budget. The board was supposed to vote last night on a forensic audit to evaluate the department’s financial record, but the board didn’t vote. Instead, they decided to look further into what the scope of the audit will be. This comes after former D-H-S employee Zer Smith was charged for stealing from the department.

Wisconsin State Patrol and the Altoona Police Department are tracking speeders from the sky. The Altoona Police Department says the fastest clocked speed yesterday was 101-miles-per hour on Highway-53. They were out there until about 3 p.m. 

There is a noticeable drop in the number of people being tested for the coronavirus in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 663 new positive tests and just under nine thousand negative tests. Yesterday was the fourth straight day that Wisconsin processed under ten thousand tests. The number of people in the hospital with the virus also ticked up in yesterday’s report, to 388. Eau Claire County’s public health office is once again suggesting people who were at Scooter’s in

An Eau Claire woman is looking at ten years in prison after police say they caught her with meth and a loaded pistol. The D.A. yesterday charged 31-year-old Diana Xiong with drug and weapons charges. Police arrested her back in June, they say she was selling the meth in late May and early June. Xiong faces ten years in federal prison on the gun charges, and 20 years in prison on the drug charges.

Teachers in Cadott are likely going to have to do a bit more review to start the school year. Superintendent Jenny Starck yesterday said she expects to see some academic loss in kids who have not been in school for over five months. The so-called “Summer-Slide” is always an issue, but this year’s summer break was a lot longer than usual. Kids in Cadott start in-person classes on September 1st. And as we look to the classroom return, the people

The political attention continues. Vice President Mike Pence is making the same point his boss made earlier this week from Oshkosh: Joe Biden has abandoned Wisconsin. Pence asked a crowd in Darien yesterday why Biden has not been to Wisconsin, despite the Democratic National Convention being in Milwaukee. Pence says he and the president will be back to Wisconsin before Election Day in November. It’s not just the big-name speakers who are missing from Milwaukee’s Democratic National Convention. Protesters at the DNC are largely

The chancellor at UW Madison says students who go to large campus parties will be held accountable. Chancellor Rebecca Blank yesterday said there will be consequences for any student who breaks the rules as part of the university’s Smart Restart plan. That plan includes a ban on more than ten people getting together inside, and more than 25 people getting together outside. Blank would not say just what those consequences will be. Students are due to arrive back on campus

There are a lot of reporters who cover the Packers who are not happy with the team’s new rules for reporting. The team yesterday issued a new media policy that bans reporting on who is or may be a starter, who is getting reps at practice, and anything else that the team fears may take away its competitive advantage. General manager Brian Gutekunst didn’t answer any questions about the new policy, he may do that today.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services confirms eight additional COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours.  Officials say 50 people were hospitalized out of the 663 new positive cases.  The positivity rate today is seven-percent, which is up slightly from yesterday.  The coronavirus has claimed the lives of 1.060 Wisconsin residents.