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Someone may be visiting your home soon to follow-up on the census survey. This week, census workers started follow-up visits to non-responsive homes around the country. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, so far 79-percent of Eau Claire County households have responded.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE 715 NEWSROOM DETAILS ON JON DEMASTER

The Eau Claire City-County Health Department is warning about a possible coronavirus exposure at a local bar. The health department says the exposure could have happened in the late night and early morning hours between August 5th and 6th at The Pickle on Water Street. The department says if you were at this location during the time of the exposure, contact your health care provider to be tested.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS

Just in case the spread of COVID-19 becomes too dangerous at the reopening of schools, the Eau Claire Area School District is planning to fall back into 100-percent virtual learning. Health Director Lieske Giese said the school could face challenges if several teachers and students are out sick. The district is planning to defer to the health department to make the final call. 

There are a lot of unanswered questions about a million-and-a-half dollars in accounting errors at Eau Claire County’s Department of Human Services. Sheriff Ron Cramer says his office is investigating. County Board member Mark Beckfield says there have been three thefts and accounting errors of over one million-dollars. He says taxpayers deserve to know what is going on.

A woman who spent 42 years at the Health and Human Services Department in Rusk County is looking at the possibility of 20 years in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from taxpayers. Sandra Stiner pleaded guilty yesterday to embezzling just over 700 thousand-dollars. Prosecutors say she used the money to pay down her credit cards, pay on her house, as well as shop and gamble. She retired from the county last year. Stiner will be sentenced in

The expectation is that kids in Chippewa Falls schools will be in class, in-person, five days a week this fall. The school district released its back-to-school plan yesterday. Superintendent Jeff Holmes said in a message to parents that this year will be different. Chippewa Falls’ plan is to teach in-person as much as they can, and only switch to online classes if Chippewa County’s health department says it is necessary. School starts September 1st in Chippewa Falls. CLICK HERE FOR

Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers are down compared to just a few weeks ago. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said the number of new positive tests is down from the end of July. Yesterday, DHS reported 478 new positive tests, and over nine thousand negative tests. In the end of July, DHS reported a few days of over one thousand positive tests. The number of people in the hospital with the virus is holding steady. DHS yesterday said 364 people

President Trump is not being subtle with his next rally in Wisconsin. The President yesterday announced a rally on Monday, most likely in Oshkosh. Monday was supposed to be the day that Democrats started their convention in Milwaukee. That convention will now be almost entirely online, and Joe Biden will not come to Milwaukee in person. The President yesterday taunted Biden, saying he will be in Wisconsin, but the Democratic ticket won’t even pay the respect of making a stopover.

The State Department of Health says the seven-day average of new COVID cases is at its lowest level since mid-July.  The state today reports 478 new cases, sending the seven day average down to 760 cases a day.  The positivity rate also dropped a half-a-percent from Tuesday to four-point-eight-percent.  Since the beginning of the a pandemic there have been over 62-thousand confirmed COVID cases in Wisconsin and one-thousand-and-eleven people have died.

One of two girls convicted of the attempted murder of a classmate loses her appeal for a new trial.  A Wisconsin appeals court upheld the conviction of Morgan Geyser today who was 12-years-old in 2014 when she and Anissa Weier lured their friend Payton Leutner into the woods in Waukesha and stabbed her 19 times.  Leutner was left for dead, but managed to survive.  The motive for the attack was to win the approval of a fictional horror character named Slender Man.