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A man is charged with giving his infant daughter severe head injuries. Yesterday, an Eau Claire County judge sentenced Tyler Bedell to five-years in prison after pleading no contest in February to child abuse causing bodily harm. Bedell’s six-month old baby was found to have two skull fractures, brain bleed, and hemorrhages in her eye. Bedell is from Augusta. 

Democratic Representative Jodi Emerson is running for reelection. Representative Emerson is campaigning for the 91st Assembly District. Yesterday, she announced her reelection campaign saying her job is not finished. 

This year a popular local music festival is going virtual. Organizers of the Blue Ox Music Festival said the performances will be broadcast on a free live stream. It will be available on Facebook and YouTube featuring performances by Pert Neat Sandstone, Charlie Parr, Sam Bush, and more. Organizers said donations will be accepted through Venmo and PayPal. The virtual music festival is June 12th and 13th. 

The latest coronavirus count in Wisconsin shows that a lot of people are not getting the virus.  The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said eight-thousand-938 people tested negative for the virus. DHS says 472 people tested positive. The negative test numbers and tests-processed are both new records. Wisconsin’s positive-test-rate is five percent.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers’ stimulus spending continues. The governor yesterday announced a 100-million-dollar earmark for long-term care, home and community-based services, and emergency medical services. It is the latest piece of Wisconsin’s federal stimulus money that the governor has decided to spend. The governor says long-term care facilities and community-based service providers have been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak.

There will be the annual 4-H animal shows, but the rest of the Dunn County Fair has been canceled. Organizers yesterday said the rides, the concerts, the beer garden, and the food will be put on hold for a year because of the coronavirus. Even the livestock shows will be different. All 4-H shows will be done remotely. In other parts of the state, the Wisconsin State Fair is still on. Planners yesterday said they are waiting to make a decision on

The latest push to renovate the Carson Park baseball stadium could mean as much as 100 thousand-dollars. An anonymous donor this week offered to match up to 50 thousand-dollars in donations to the stadium’s Fill the Seats Campaign. Anyone who gives 500 dollars or more will get their own seat at the ballpark.

It’s that time of year. Time for the annual warning for drivers to be careful on the road. The Wisconsin State Patrol and the Department of Transportation yesterday said the Memorial Day weekend is the time to remind people to slow down, buckle-up, put down their phones, and never drink and drive. Experts say this will be a lighter year for holiday travel, but that still means millions of people will drive somewhere between today and Monday.

Kohl’s is opening most of its doors in Wisconsin. The company yesterday said it is opening 34 of its 41 stores today. The stores that are not opening are being kept closed because of local Safer at Home orders. The three Kohl’s stores in Madison are on that list. Shoppers will see reminders to stay socially distant, and there will be plenty of hand sanitizer.

You might soon see decals in the windows of your favorite business as we begin to take steps toward re-opening locally. The City of Altoona announced the formation of a task force created as an effort to pull together resources, organizations and talent from across the Chippewa Valley to help our area emerge from this crisis in an orderly, successful, safe and stronger position to support our local economy. One of the Task Force’s objectives is to assure the health