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The young woman accused of texting while driving ahead of a deadly 2017 crash in Chippewa County says she doesn’t remember the wreck.  A judge yesterday set Miranda Jo Miller’s signature bond at ten-thousand-dollars.  Miller is being blamed for a wreck in July of 2017 in the Town of Colburn.  Forty-six-year-old Jeremy Goodwin died in the crash.  Investigators say Miller was checking her phone every 30 seconds before the crash.  

Wisconsin is joining 21 other states in asking Congress for money to clean-up PFAS pollution.  Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday signed-on to a push from other Democratic attorneys general to ask the federal government to provide states with the money to test for the chemicals, then clean-up their water supplies.  PFAS chemicals are found in everything from non-stick spray to firefighting foam.  Governor Tony Evers this month asked over 100 local water systems in Wisconsin to start testing for PFAS chemicals. 

One of Wisconsin’s election reformers wants more of a concrete promise from Republicans in Madison about the state’s next political map.  The Fair Elections Project yesterday said the line from Republican leaders at the statehouse that ‘they are not talking about’ forcing their map through is not the same as a promise not to do it.  The Fair Elections Project says lawmakers and the governor agreed on a map back in 1971, and should be able to do it again in

It’s going to be a bit more expensive to head back to school in Wisconsin this year.  Governor Tony Evers yesterday said he will not call for a back to school sales tax holiday.  Governor Walker last year called for stores to give parents a break on everything from clothes and shoes to back to school supplies.  Governor Evers says there’s no evidence the sales tax holiday worked. 

An Eau Claire County high schooler is doing some good with his prize pig.  Augusta High School graduate Grant Goodell is donating the auction proceeds from his pig at the Eau Claire County Fair to a classmate battling brain cancer.  Goodell says he and Tenley Walker have been friends since the fifth grade, and he wanted to help anyway he can.  So he’s donating the nearly nine-thousand-dollars he received for his pig at the county fair to Walker’s medical care. 

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin say a change in how high schools practice football in the state is paying off.  Researchers at school this week said research shows the move away from hitting in practice has led to fewer concussions.  The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health published its findings that show the 2014 decision by the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association to limit full contact practices cut practice-related concussions by 57 percent.  Researchers also say limiting practice did not lead to an

The Eau Claire Police Department is looking for the public’s help identifying the person behind the theft of tools. It happened on the 23rd of this month when tools were stolen from a work truck on Clairemont Avenue near Shoe Doctor. There were also items taken from a dumpster. Later that evening the truck pictured here returned to load materials and drive off. If you have any information or can make an anonymous tip, please contact: 715.874.TIPS

University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics is landing on the list of most highly ranked hospitals in the nation.  US News & World Report’s Best Hospital rankings were released today and UW Hospitals are on the honor roll for the first time in history.  The hospitals ranked 17th overall.  Officials say a top 50 ranking means the hospital is in the top two-percent in the nation.  The hospitals are ranked in the top 20 in Gynecology, Urology and Orthopedics. 

The man who shot and killed four people in Chippewa County is identified as Ritchie German.  The Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office says German shot three family members in the town of Lafayette and one in Lake Hallie yesterday.  He also wounded two people in Lake Hallie.  His victims included his brother, mother and eight-year-old nephew.  German took his own life following his killing spree.  MORE DETAILS: After an afternoon press conference we are learning more details about the murder suicide

It’s confirmed a tornado touched down in Barron County over the weekend.  National Weather Service investigators confirmed an EF-zero twister touched down about six miles southeast of Barron Sunday evening.  It had top wind speeds of 74 miles per hour and is the third tornado to touch down in Barron County in the last ten days.