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Backlog testing has lead to an arrest. Attorney General Josh Kaul announced that Brandon A. Darnick has been sentenced to 25 years initial confinement plus 15 years extended supervision following a guilty jury verdict in Oneida County for First Degree Child Sexual Assault – Sexual Contact with a Child Under Age 13 for an assault that occurred in 2013.   The victim’s sexual assault kit was tested as part of the Wisconsin Sexual Assault Kit Initiative in 2018. The case was presided over by Oneida

The Eau Claire County Parks & Forest Department announces that water testing results by the City County Health Department indicate that Big Falls water is now within acceptable health standards and is therefore now open for swimming. All other public beaches on Eau Claire County land are within acceptable standards and therefore open.

Eau Claire is getting ready for in-person voting in August. City Clerk Carrie Riepl said 300 poll workers are signed up to work the election and some want to commit for November.  There was a shortage of poll workers in April because of the coronavirus pandemic.  Riepl said anyone wanting to work at the polls will have to attend training in mid-July.  

A man is missing out of Polk County.  The Sheriff’s Office said 40-year-old Andre Lyons was reported missing Sunday after leaving a home near the St. Croix county line for his own home north of Amery.  Police said they haven’t found the yellow motorcycle he could have been riding, and the Department of Natural Resources searched the area with an airplane. 

Pablo Center at the Confluence recently announced a new virtual concert series, Pablo Streams, which is offered to the public free of charge.   Pablo Streams is a free virtual concert series starting Thursday, July 2 at 6:30 p.m. Throughout the summer, lineups of two or more artists will take the stage in Jamf Theatre and will be broadcast via the Perigon webcasting service to audiences. The inception of Pablo Stream provides a local alternative for a community missing out on

The top man at Wisconsin’s unemployment office wants to see the federal unemployment sweetener extended, even as his office struggles to meet the needs of people who are out of work. Department of Workforce Development Secretary Caleb Frostman yesterday said he wants to see the 600 dollar-a-week coronavirus enhancer extended. He said that money makes a big difference for people who are out of work in the state. Frostman doesn’t have an answer for when all of those people will get

Most of Wisconsin’s local schools are getting more money from the state. The Department of Public Instruction yesterday released its general school aid estimate for the next school year. DPI says, overall, schools will split about five billion-dollars. That’s up three-and-a-half percent from the last school year. Not every school will see more though. DPI says 114 of the state’s 421 school districts will see less money from Madison.

Eau Claire County’s public health director says about a third of people who’ve recently tested positive for the coronavirus don’t know where they picked it up. Lieske Giese yesterday said there’s been 100 new positive tests in the past two weeks. That brings Eau Claire County’s total to 240 since March. Giese did not say if any of the new cases have landed anyone in the hospital. She did say that 176 of those 240 people have fully recovered. On

A crash turns fatal in Wilson. It was a little after 2 in the afternoon on Wednesday, July 1st when crews were dispatched to the intersection of CTH H and Henneman Rd, Township of Wilson, to investigate a motorcycle vs. SUV crash. Early investigation revealed that a motorcycle, being operated by 26-year-old Fairchild man, was traveling northbound on CTH H, just north of Forest road #1. A southbound Chevrolet Tahoe, being operated by an 18-year-old Thorp man, was slowing, and

We now know the names of those involved in a wrong way vehicle crash in Jackson County. It was just before 10 on Wednesday night when Officers responded to a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 94 westbound near Hixton. Minutes before the crash, a motorist reported to the Jackson County Sheriffs Dispatch Center that a pick-up truck was traveling eastbound in the westbound traffic lanes. The eastbound GMC Sierra pick-up truck, driven by 24 year old Jenna Hanson from Hizton, then