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State health officials say there are over 27-hundred positive cases of coronavirus confirmed over the last day.  The total number of cases statewide is approaching 128-thousand.  Five additional deaths reported today brings the death toll to one-thousand-353 residents killed by COVID-19. The pressure is especially felt in the Fox Valley. Health officials there issued a Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Alert.  Local hospitals have been put under increasing strain with the surge of coronavirus cases across the state, including the Fox Valley. 

Money magazine names two Wisconsin communities to its list of the top 50 Places to Live in America.  Menomonee Falls is ranked in the number 15 spot.  The magazine says housing is relatively affordable, the median income is 83-thousand-dollars and the job market is recovering even during the pandemic.  Sun Prairie is ranked at number 40 with the magazine citing its slew of community events, a healthy job market and the lowest unemployment rate in the state.

The average cost of regular gas in Wisconsin remains well below the national average.  Triple-A says the price per gallon in the Badger State is 2.03 today.  Drivers are paying 2.19 nationwide.  The price at the pump is 1.99 in Milwaukee, Racine, Janesville and Green Bay, 2.13-a-gallon in St. Croix County and just a bit below 2.00 a gallon on most signs around Eau Claire.

Eau Claire Transit is planning to resume collecting fares on Monday, October 5, 2020. Passes will be available to purchase at all Festival Foods locations in Eau Claire and by appointment only at City Hall, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, and the Transit Administrative Office. Fares have not changed and are as follows: FULL FARE $1.75INCOME-QUALIFYING FARE $1.50REDUCED FARE $0.85K-12 STUDENT FARE $1.25DAY PASS $3.75SINGLE RIDE TICKETS 3 FOR $4SENIOR/REDUCED FARE TICKETS 13 FOR $10FULL FARE MONTHLY PASS $50INCOME-QUALIFYING MONTHLY

An Eau Claire man who admitted beating his neighbor to death wants to be released from a state mental institution. James Olson was found not guilty by insanity for the 2012 beating death of Paul Oberle. This week, Olson petitioned the court for conditional release. A hearing on his latest motion will be held in December.

Chippewa Falls police are teaming up with the Family Support Center to try and prevent domestic violence related homicides in the city. There were 14 more deaths by domestic homicide in Wisconsin in 2019 than the year before, according to a Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide report. Some of their efforts include a new screening protocol to identify domestic violence victims, which went into effect yesterday. They say October is domestic violence awareness month. 

President Donald Trump has revealed early Friday morning that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19.  This news coming just hours after a group of doctors and some government officials in Wisconsin urged the President to cancel campaign rallies in the state this weekend.  The President, who just took part in the first presidential debate with candidate Joe Biden days ago, says that he and his wife have begun the quarantine process.  Meanwhile, more than 28-hundred new cases

Health officials are labeling the COVID-19 rate as very high in Eau Claire. They also say 33-percent of those who became infected don’t know where they contracted the virus.  There have been more than two-thousand confirmed coronavirus cases in Eau Claire since the beginning of the pandemic. One more coronavirus related death was reported yesterday, bringing the death total to seven. Thirteen more coronavirus cases are being reported in Chippewa County.  That’s according to the latest information from county health

An Eau Claire man is accused of being in possession of child pornography. Yesterday 34-year-old Derek Demars was charged on ten counts of possessing child pornography. Authorities say an investigation began on Demars back in February.  Demars was arrested on Wednesday after a search warrant was issued at his residence.

 The FBI is now offering a ten-thousand-dollar reward for information regarding the shooting at a Milwaukee funeral home Wednesday afternoon.  Seven people were injured in the shooting outside the serenity Funeral Home near 42nd and Fond du Lac.  Police say the shooting was a result of an ongoing feud between two separate parties.  Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Milwaukee Police or the Milwaukee Crime Stoppers.     And in the wake of recent violence in the