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The man killed in a rollover accident near St. Croix is identified.  The Polk County Sheriff’s office yesterday said 37-year-old Robert Johnson crashed his vehicle near the intersection of Highway 35 and 160th Street Wednesday after an officer attempted to pull him over. The officer said he discontinued the pursuit after the driver failed to yield, and later received a report of a rollover crash.  Officers identified the car as the vehicle from before.  The crash is still under investigation. 

A new study says cats can get coronavirus and they could also infect other cats. The University of Wisconsin-Madison study published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine said scientists in the U.S. and Japan ran tests that showed cats can contract the virus that causes COVID-19 from an infected human patient.  Researchers said people with COVID-19 symptoms worried about spreading it to their friends and family members should also worry about spreading it to their pet cats.  They should

This year’s Trempealeau Catfish Days are cancelled.  The community Lions Club said the event originally scheduled for July was cancelled due to uncertainty about the COVID-19 pandemic. Lions Club leaders said they’re looking forward to next year.  

The Augusta Lions Club is canceling the 2020 Bean and Bacon Days festival, but the fireworks are still on. Lions club leadership said it was a great disappointment to cancel the event this year.  Augusta Lions says the community should stay tuned for more details on the firework show. 

The gavel has dropped and now a lot of people are wondering “Now what?” The Wisconsin Supreme Court says it hopes lawmakers and Governor Tony Evers’ administration can come to terms on a plan to reopen the state. Because if they don’t, the state essentially reopens today. The high court yesterday struck down the extension of the governor’s order to keep businesses closed and keep people at home. It was close, the justices ruled, 4-3, that Health Secretary Andrea Palm overstepped her

The Tavern League of Wisconsin is telling bar owners not to wait to reopen. The League took to social media yesterday to tell bars to ‘open immediately.’ Some bars took that advice, and they opened their doors within minutes of seeing the ruling from the Wisconsin Supreme Court. More bars are expected to reopen today.

As more people get tested for the coronavirus in Wisconsin, more people are testing positive. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said positive test numbers jumped by about 100. DHS reported 291 new cases yesterday. The uptick comes as more and more people are tested for the virus. Another four-thousand-plus people in the state tested negative.

Eau Claire’s school board will have a new member next week. The district yesterday said 13 people have applied to replace Board Member Laurie Klinkhammer. The school board is reviewing those applications and will pick Klinkhammer’s replacement next Monday. After that, the school board will start the process of replacing out-going board member Eric Torres.

A new survey shows most parents in Wisconsin think their kids are learning something during the coronavirus outbreak. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty released its survey this week that shows most parents, 80-percent, are satisfied that their kids are learning while schools are shut down. But WILL’s Will Flanders says the survey also shows that many kids aren’t learning anything new, and some aren’t learning anything at all. Flanders says the survey also shows parents are picking-up the tab for educating their

 Wisconsin is moving closer to meeting all the criteria needed to lift Safer at Home restrictions.  The Department of Health Services says the state added two more steps yesterday and has met five of the six criteria needed to move into phase one of the Badger Bounce Back program.  The state continues to lower it’s positive test rate and 95-percent of hospitals report they can treat all patients without resorting to crisis mode.  Phase One will allow several things including the