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A lot more people in the state of Wisconsin are about to be tested for the coronavirus. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday opened-up the rules for testing. Now, anyone with coronavirus symptoms can get a test. Up until now, DHS said only people most at risk for the virus could get a test. The move comes as the state tries to hit 12 thousand coronavirus tests a day.

A former Durand library director is pleading guilty to theft. Court records say Patricia Blount pleaded guilty to a felony charge of theft for what the City of Durand called questionable activity on the library’s accounts. Blount was placed on administrative leave before she retired as the library director. Sentencing is scheduled for July 7th. 

A local bank is donating 25-thousand-dollars to the Quick Response Community Fund. Charter Bank made the donation this week and says funds will be granted on a rolling basis. The Quick Response Community Fund is matching donations through the Community Matching Grant Challenge.  President and C-E-O Paul Kohler said the bank wanted to help support local non-profit organizations amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and knew the donation and matching challenge would double its impact. 

The Boy Scouts of America Samoset Council is raising money to help local food banks amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Each year, the council hosts a food drive and goes door to door to collect items, but this year the pandemic is making door to door collections more challenging. Council leadership says a new website was created to help people go online and donate through the Samoset Council website. Leadership says people interested in donating can CLICK HERE FOR MORE. A

We have been hearing a lot about our climbing case count, but now we have other numbers, too. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday for the first time released figures on the number of people who have recovered from the virus. Just about half of the people in the state who tested positive for the coronavirus have been cleared. Just over six-thousand people in Wisconsin have come down with the coronavirus, and just over three-thousand of them have recovered. Three-hundred people

The city of Eau Claire is extending its emergency order. The city council last night voted to push the order to keep people at home and keep businesses closed to May 26th. That’s the same day that Governor Evers’ Safer at Home order is supposed to end. There is no word on what Eau Claire will do if the governor’s order is struck down.

Eau Claire’s new superintendent is coming-in from out of state. The city’s school board last night named Michael Johnson as the next superintendent. He was last the assistant superintendent in the South Washington County School District in Minnesota. That’s in the St. Paul suburbs. Johnson will start in Eau Claire on July 1st.

You don’t have to pay someone to get an extension on your student loan payments. The state’s consumer protection division is warning people about potential coronavirus-related scams. DTACP’s Lara Sutherlin says one scam involves calls or emails that claim they can get people a break on their student loan payments. Sutherlin says it’s a scam because anyone with a federally qualified loan is getting an automatic extension on their payments. She’s also warning about people who claim they can erase

A group of Wisconsin’s public sector labor unions are joining the fight against the legislature’s Safer at Home lawsuit. The teachers’ unions in Milwaukee and Madison, as well as the bus driver’s union, and SEIU yesterday all filed a brief to join the lawsuit that seeks to end Governor Evers’ Safer at Home order on May 11th. The unions argue that lawmakers are trying to over-step their bounds by limiting how Governor Evers and the state’s Department of Health Services can

The White House’s top infectious disease specialist says there is a chance that Milwaukee could still host an in-person Democratic National Convention this summer. The Journal Sentinel reports that Dr. Anthony Fauci says it is a possibility. But Fauci also says a lot of things can, and need to, happen between now and when the convention is set to begin in August. DNC organizers have already moved the convention once because of the coronavirus, there is talk of moving it