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A new bill could help businesses that promote, produce or manage live concerts and events. Last week, Representatives Ron Kind of Wisconsin and Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania introduced the Entertainment New Credit Opportunity for Economic and Sustainability Act or ENCORES Act. If passed, event venues would get a tax credit for half of all refunded tickets for canceled events during the pandemic. You can fill out a form to support the bill AND GET MORE INFORMATION HERE.

A weekend argument at a local bar that ended with a stabbing has landed an Eau Claire man in jail. Police arrested 63-year-old Dennis Smith not long after the stabbing. Yesterday, prosecutors filed battery and weapons charges against him. Eau Claire Police say Smith was arguing with a man, they left the bar, then they say Smith stabbed the man three times in the neck, shoulder, and chest. He’s being held on ten thousand-dollars cash bond.

Firefighters sent the person they pulled out of the Chippewa River to the hospital last night and their condition is still unknown. Crews rescued a person from the river about 6:30 last night. A fellow swimmer had helped pull them to the shore. Firefighters started life-saving first aid, but then sent the person to a local hospital.

The dip in Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers is expected. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported just 590 positive tests and a little over six thousand negative tests. That’s a reflection of slower weekend testing. Hospitalizations in the state did tick-up. DHS says 253 people are being treated for the virus in the hospital, 84 of them are in the ICU.

There will be no football at the University of Wisconsin’s smaller campuses this fall. In fact, there will be no fall sports. The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference yesterday said it is postponing the fall sports season because of the coronavirus. That means no football, volleyball, soccer, or cross country at UW Eau Claire, UW Stout, UW Platteville, UW La Crosse, UW Oshkosh, UW River Falls, UW Stevens Point, and UW Whitewater.

The manhunt for the two women who led the attack on a Wisconsin state lawmaker is over. Madison Police say 26-year-old Samantha Hamer and 33-year-old Kerida O’Reilly turned themselves in yesterday. They are looking at initial charges of battery and robbery. State Senator Tim Carpenter, a Milwaukee Democrat, said the two led a crowd in beating him after he took a picture of what turned-out to be a very violent protest last month. Hamer and O’Reilly were in Dane County’s jail as

Students at UW Madison will be moving into the dorms here in a few weeks, but there will be some new rules. The school yesterday said all students will be tested for the coronavirus every two weeks, masks will be required whenever students are not in their dorm rooms, only other dorm-students will be allowed as guests, and the university is creating about 800 quarantine spaces across campus. Students are supposed to start moving into the dorms at the end

We should have a better idea by the end of week just how many people are living on the streets in western Wisconsin. The twice-a-year homeless count in Eau Claire, Buffalo, Trempealeau, and Jackson counties started last night. The idea is to count people who don’t have a place to stay, and then find them some help. Last summer’s homeless count found 20 people in those four counties. Advocates say this year’s count could be larger.

The number of newly confirmed coronavirus cases in Wisconsin drops below 600 for the first time in two weeks. The Wisconsin Department of Health said 590 new cases were reported today with an eight-and-a-half-percent positivity rate.  Last Monday the positivity rate was over ten-percent.  One additional death is reported, bringing the total number of Wisconsinites killed by COVID-19 to 893.

Nearly 42-million-dollars in funding is benefiting some 12-thousand Wisconsin farmers.  Governor Tony Evers announced today that farmers have received a 35-hundred-dollar payment through the Wisconsin Farm Support System.  The program is funded by the CARES Act, which is designed to help out during the coronavirus crisis.  A second round of funding will be distributed following the application process, which runs from August 10th to August 24th.