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Eau Claire County is getting more than 600-thousand dollars to fund three Ameri-Corps projects in the area.  Serve Wisconsin recently announced it’s awarded the county 605-thousand dollars for National and Community Service.  The money will go to the Western Dairyland’s Fresh Start program, the Blugold Beginnings STEM camps, and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire ECLIPSE program. 

Sprecher doesn’t want to be left out of the alcoholic seltzer game.  The root beer company yesterday announced plans for its own hard seltzer.  Sprecher is introducing the Wisconsin Old Fashioned Press Hard Seltzer.  The company says it will taste like an Old Fashioned, but in a can.  Sprecher says it will hit the shelves across the state soon. 

A cold case from 2012 is the first sexual assault case to be closed after the state of Wisconsin started testing old DNA kits.  A jury yesterday found Leroy Whittenberger guilty of assaulting a teenager in the town of New London.  The DNA kit from the case sat on a shelf until it was tested in 2017.  The state has tested about four-thousand old DNA kits from across Wisconsin.  Thirty five of those tests have been referred for charges. 

You’ll have to get up north, and away from the city, but forecasters say folks in Wisconsin could see the northern lights this weekend.  NOAA says there will be a good chance for a light show late tomorrow and early Sunday.  Folks in Minnesota and the U.P will certainly see the lights.  Forecasters say folks in about the northern half of Wisconsin could also see the show.  

Police In Onalaska are calling a man’s death suspicious after finding his body in a storage unit.  Officers found the 60-year-old man’s body yesterday inside a unit along County Road PH.  There is no word how long he’d been there or how the man died.  Police say the ‘position of the body’ has them treating his death as a possible crime. 

The man who shot a La Crosse police officer will need to come up with 50 thousand-dollars cash to get out of jail.  A judge yesterday ordered Allen Kruk held on cash bond.  Kruck is charged with shooting a La Crosse police officer earlier this month during a domestic violence call.  The officer survived.  Kruk is still nursing his wound from when police shot him after he shot the officer. 

Almost 90-percent of the people in Wisconsin who got sick after vaping told state health officials that they vaped marijuana.  The Wisconsin Department of Health Services yesterday stopped short of saying vaping THC products is the cause of the vape sickness outbreak in the state.  In all, DHS has confirmed 32 cases of vape sickness, with another 11 possible cases.  Health Secretary Andrea Palm says there are additives and unknown chemicals in THC vape cartridges that can make people very sick.  The state is

One western Wisconsin lawmaker wants to make it easier for hunters to track chronic wasting disease.  State Senator Jeff Smith wants to find 200-thousand-dollars to help counties add more CWD testing kiosks.  That’s a fancy way of saying that he wants to put dumpsters within 10 miles of confirmed CWD cases so that hunters can send deer carcasses to the state.  Smith says he’s still waiting to get a hearing on his plan. 

Love may be patient, but two Wisconsin lawmakers say state law should stop forcing people to wait to get remarried.  State Rep. Cindi Duchow and state Senator Alberta Darling are pushing a plan that would end Wisconsin’s six-month moratorium on marriage after a divorce.  The two say it’s none of the state’s business if someone wants to get remarried as soon as their divorce is final.  Dochow and Darling say the ban on re-marriage hurts families and children. 

Governor Tony Evers says it’s time to end the gun violence, but two people are standing in the way of allowing a vote to happen.  The governor says it’s time for the Republican leaders to allow a vote on the bill.  Evers says the vast majority of Wisconsinites are demanding expanded background checks.  Gun control advocate and State Senator Latonya Johnson says 80-percent of residents want expanded background checks and the lack of action by Republican lawmakers means kids and families