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Tourism leaders in Milwaukee say they should be able to get most of what Democrats spent on the DNC in Charlotte back in 2012.  Hotel and convention leaders yesterday talked about the potential payday from next summer’s Democratic National Convention.  They say the 2012 DNC brought in 163-million to Charlotte, they hope for at least that much for Milwaukee next summer. 

They are hiring at McDonald’s in Wisconsin this summer. The company yesterday said it is looking to fill 75-hundred positions.  McDonald’s says that it is looking to hire everyone from managers to fry cooks to teenagers looking for their first job.  

Don’t be afraid to take your little ones to work today — it’s Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.  This year’s theme is “Workforce Development for All” so that children are empowered to develop their careers.  The annual day to teach your kids about your job was created back in 1992 as Take Our Daughters To Work Day and is celebrated each year on the fourth Thursday in April.  It was expanded to include boys in 2003.  

We now know who rescue crews are looking for. It was on Tuesday evening that the Eau Claire Police Department was notified of a person in the Chippewa River near Domer Park. The initial information was a teenage male was swimming in the river and struggling. Officers and personnel from the Eau Claire Fire Department (ECFD) responded to the area and learned the teen and three acquaintances were jumping off the cliffs at Mount Simon Park into the Chippewa River.

Two people are hurt after a single-car crash in Pierce County.  The sheriff’s office says a car driven by Michael Stewart and Shentelle Foster was on Highway 10 in Salem early yesterday morning when the car crashed into a ditch and rolled.  Stewart was taken to a hospital by ambulance and Foster was airlifted to another hospital.  There’s no other information on their condition. 

An Onalaska teen is accused of stabbing his father.  A criminal complaint claims 18-year-old Kole Reisner’s father refused to give him money, leading to Reisner stabbing him in the abdomen and back.  Reisner claims he acted in self-defense and that his father had been abusive.  Reisner was taken to La Crosse County Jail where he reportedly punched a jailer.  He’s facing five charges relating to the case.

No hot air blowing about it…we have CLEAN air! A new report says the Eau Claire area has some of the cleanest air in the country.  According to the American Lung Association, the Eau Claire-Menomonie area has low levels of smog and never had days where soot in the air reached on unhealthy level from 2015 to 2017.  The La Crosse-Onalaska area also made the list.  Both areas are in the top 37 areas for clean air in the country. 

A federal judge is denying the Wisconsin Legislature’s request to be apart of a case battling some of the state’s abortion laws.  William Conley made the decision yesterday, saying the move is unnecessary and would cause unnecessary complications.  You may have seen this in the paper, as The Chippewa Herald reports Planned Parenthood brought the case against Wisconsin in January and it asks some of the state’s abortion laws be ruled unconstitutional.  The Republican-controlled legislature wanted to be apart of the case

UPDATE: Investigators in Minnesota say they are questioning three people in the death of a man from Barron.  Chris Etchison’s family reported him missing last week.  Police in Sandstone, Minnesota say they found his body in a cabin yesterday.  None of the three people being held are charged with his murder, yet. 

The man at the center of Eau Claire’s largest cocaine bust is looking at a trial.  A judge yesterday said there is enough evidence to move ahead with the charges against Samuel Serrano.  Eau Claire police say they found 67 pounds of cocaine in a trailer that he was driving earlier this month.  Federal prosecutors yesterday told the judge they may be looking at charges against Serrano as well.