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You will notice our flags lowered this week and that will be in honor of those lives lost in the line of duty. Today, Governor Evers issued Executive Order #76, relating to a proclamation that the flag of the United States and the flag of the State of Wisconsin be flown at Half-Staff on Friday, May 15th, 2020 as a mark of respect for Peace Officers who have given their lives in the line of duty. Attorney General Josh Kaul

Free COVID-19 testing is available for Western Wisconsin counties today and tomorrow. The health departments for both Eau Claire and Dunn counties are making free drive-thru testing available to all Wisconsin residents with symptoms at Chippewa Valley Technical College and Prevea Health Clinic from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tomorrow, testing is available for Clark, Taylor and Chippewa counties at Thorp High School from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. More testing sites can be found WITH AN EASY CLICK HERE. CLICK TO REFERENCE A

Western Wisconsin residents should turn their eyes to the sky. Eau Claire is on the list to see some F-16’s tonight. The Wisconsin Air National Guard is planning a statewide flyover to salute healthcare workers. The jets are due in Eau Claire about 6:50 tonight. They will be in the air for only about ten minutes and will fly in from the north. 

The 2020 season of American Legion Baseball is cancelled. The American Legion Department of Wisconsin announced the cancellation Saturday, noting 24-states have also cancelled their summer baseball programs for the 2020 season. Officials said they fully expect the program to return in 2021. 

Anyone in Eau Claire who wants a coronavirus test should be able to still get one. The National Guard started offering free testing to everyone yesterday. The plan is to continue testing today. Eau Claire City-County Health Department Lieske Giese says people don’t need a doctor’s note or to be at risk. She says they are trying to get a fuller picture of the coronavirus in Wisconsin. More than 10-thousand people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Wisconsin, and

Nearly 60-percent of schools in Wisconsin want permission to end the school year early. The State’s Department of Public Instruction on Friday said that 248 of the state’s 421 school districts have asked for a waiver for classroom hours. The state is allowing schools to cut the year short because of the coronavirus. Wisconsin high schools are required by law to have more than 11-hundred hours of teaching time. That is proving tough for some school districts.

Firefighters in Eau Claire are looking for the cause of a fire that left a local family homeless. The fire heavily damaged the home in the 36 hundred block of Sharon Drive yesterday evening. The fire was mostly kept to just one room, but smoke and water damaged the rest of the house. No one was hurt in the fire.

The folks at Feed My People say the Wisconsin Farmers Union gave them 31 thousand pounds of pork ribs. Feed My People Executive Director Emily Moore says that’s enough to feed five thousand families. The ribs are from Redwood Farms, and would usually go to high-end restaurants in Chicago and New York, but are coming to Eau Claire because of the coronavirus’ limits on restaurants.

Wisconsin’s citizen soldiers will do their part in the special election in the northwoods. Guard commanders last week said about 250 citizen soldiers will help out with tomorrow’s special election in the state’s 7th Congressional District. Voters in the northwoods will pick a replacement for Sean Duffy tomorrow. Just like last month’s election, the guard will help people check-in at the polls, they will help sanitize, and they will help with logistics. Local election managers will count the ballots once

A man who admitted to going in the ditch while texting behind the wheel also picked up a 6th OWI. It was just before 5 on Saturday afternoon when a WI State Patrol Trooper responded to a report of a vehicle which had run into the ditch on CTH O at Fire Lane Road. When the Trooper arrived on scene he found the operator, 57 year old Christopher Arthur Thannum, uninjured and standing outside of his vehicle. The vehicle had