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On Thursday morning just before 5:30 the Barron County 911 Center received a call of a car vs pedestrian accident on Hwy P near the Holiday Gas Station. Deputies from the Barron County Sheriffs arrived on scene and were able to determine that 71-year-old Lolita Kohler of Cumberland was outside of her vehicle after getting stuck in a drift on Hwy P just north of Almena, when she was struck by a vehicle driven by 20-year-old Mataya Fogelberg, of Turtle

The Wisconsin Department of Health confirms the state’s second pediatric flu death.  The young victim was from southern Wisconsin.  UW Health in Madison is seeing about 20-percent more flu cases than at this time last year.  Over 30 people have died from the flu in Wisconsin this season. 

The effort to allow for expanded bar hours during the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee takes another step forward.  A State Assembly committee approved a bill today that would allow bars to stay open until 4 a.m. during the July 13th through 16th convention.  The temporary change would apply to bars across Wisconsin not just those in Milwaukee. 

It’s dangerously cold in west-central Wisconsin today.  According to the National Weather Service, it got as cold as negative eight degrees in Eau Claire this morning, with a wind chill around negative 20.  It should barely get above zero this afternoon before low temperatures get down into the negative double-digits tonight.

A Clark County man accused of vandalizing a church in Neillsville is going to a mental institution.  Police say Seth Meier appeared to be on drugs when he confessed to damaging statues and wall hangings at Saint Mary’s last March.  Meier was found guilty of burglary Wednesday, but not guilty by reason of mental disease.

Eau Claire is taking the search for its next city manager nationwide.  The city council decided earlier this week to hire a search firm, which will likely cost between about 20 and 35-thousand dollars.  The city is trying to replace Dale Peters who’s retiring in May.

People in rural Wisconsin are visiting the library more than usual.  According to a report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum, rural library visits went up 40 percent from 2008 to 2018.  This comes around the same time a Department of Public Instruction report says 28 percent of the rural population in the state doesn’t have access to the Internet.

The City of Park Falls is receiving a $250,000 state grant to help finance the renovation and expansion of an existing lodging facility into a rebranded hotel.  The Community Development Investment Grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) will support the remodeling of a historic facility into a 50-room Cobblestone Hotel & Suites. A study commissioned by the Park Falls Area Community Development Corporation (PFACDC) determined that the entire northern part of Wisconsin has a severe deficit of quality

There are no new cases of the coronavirus in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said the rest of the pending test results came back negative. That means of the 15 people tested for the virus, 14 have been confirmed as not sick. There is only one confirmed case in Dane County.

Prosecutors in the northwoods still have not filed charges against the man who police say ran down a six-year-old girl waiting at her school bus stop. Now, friends of the little girl’s family want to do something. Brandon and Ashley Lenzo are close friends of the little girl’s family in Plainfield. They are asking for people to sign a petition to get state lawmakers to better protect kids at their bus stops. Investigators with the Waushara County Sheriff’s office say