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Travel is not advised after a night of heavy snowfall- and what about those busy crews? Eau Claire snow plow drivers have been working 15 straight 12-hour days to clear roads.  Street Maintenance Manager Steven Thompson says crews haven’t had enough time between snowfalls to haul the snow away.  Removal requires trucks to switch out the plows and the salting and sanding equipment.  Thompson says areas with narrow lanes will be prioritized and hauled away as soon as possible.  Nearly

A primary owner of the Milwaukee Bucks is being fined 25-thousand dollars for tampering.  The fine stems from Marc Lasry’s comments to The Sporting News after the Bucks’ February 4th victory.  Lasry said he’d seen reports that New Orleans Pelicans star Anthony Davis would sign an extension with the Buck if he were traded there and that it was “a little bit of what we want.”  The open recruitment of other teams’ players is against league policy. 

Staff members at Bullet Cab in La Crosse are disturbed after someone painted a racial slur on the company’s garage.  The company’s manager didn’t see the graffiti through the backdoor and doesn’t know exactly when the incident happened, but she was out of the office late Tuesday night through early Wednesday morning.  The slur was directed at Muslims and people from the Middle East and North Africa.   

Some groundbreaking research in Madison is helping babies with heart defects.  Researchers in a lab at the Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research are creating three dimensional models of fetal hearts made from ultrasound images.  The models allow doctors to see what a heart with defects will look like and how it will function before babies are born.  The Madison lab is the only place in the world where researchers have successfully pumped fluid through a 3D fetal heart, simulating blood flow.

A vote on Eau Claire’s proposed veterans park is expected at today’s City Council meeting.  The park’s trail design, amenities, and site plan were addressed in a public discussion last night.  It will be located north of Madison Street and west of Forest Street with the cost estimated and nearly one-and-a-quarter million dollars.   

Some Chippewa County board members are calling for Chairman Jared Zwiefelhofer to step down.  Last week, Zwiefelhofer was convicted of three hunting violations in Burnett County.  This caused Supervisors Steve Gerrish and Glen Sikorski to call for Zwiefelhofer to step down.  Gerrish warns that if Zwiefelhofer doesn’t willingly step down the board may vote to remove him. 

Governor Tony Evers is including a dental access initiative as part of his two year budget plan.  A spokeswoman for the governor tells the Leader-Telegram that the lack of access to dental health, especially in rural communities, is prompting the governor to take action.  The proposal totals over 43-million-dollars in both state and federal funding.  The largest component is increasing the Medicaid dental incentive payment for providers. 

The City of Menomonie is using the cold weather to raise money for the Special Olympics.  On Saturday, the city held its annual Polar Plunge event at Lake Menomin where teams braved the frigid water temperatures to raise money that will all stay local. Eau Claire will be holding its Polar Plunge on February 24th. 

On Friday, February 8, 2019, at 8:06am the Barron County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call of a three vehicle accident on Hwy 48 just east of Cumberland. Deputies from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department along with the Cumberland Police Department, Cumberland Fire Department, Cumberland Ambulance and Life Link Helicopter all responded to the scene. Initial reports show a vehicle traveling westbound driven by 64 year Harry Skirm, from Puyallup, WA, crossed the center line and stuck a truck traveling

All lanes are back open after a 40-vehicle pile-up near mile marker 85 on I-94 in Eau Claire County.  The crash happened yesterday afternoon and involved seven semis and 33 automobiles.  Seven injuries were reported, including one life-threatening injury.  Slippery conditions are believed to be a major factor in the pile-up.  The State Patrol Eau Claire Post is reporting a large number of crashes and run offs.  Troopers responded to nearly 50 run offs, 25 crashes, and 15 vehicle assists