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A Marquette women’s basketball game had to be moved to a different arena after a car rammed into the Al McGuire Center over the weekend.  A spokesperson for the school says the driver hit the center around 2:30 Saturday morning and was taken into custody by campus police.  That afternoon’s game against University of Illinois at Chicago was moved to the Milwaukee Bucks Arena. 

Hunters are putting the “DOE” in DOEnation in our area as many are helping local families in need by donating deer to local food pantries. That venison will be donated to hungry families from around the area.  All hunters need to do to donate is to provide their DNR customer number and registration number when dropping off deer at any participating processor. 

The La Crosse Community Foundation is planning to give thousands of dollars to multiple local non-profits.  The foundation’s program director says about 15 different organizations will be surprised with pop-in style donations rather than them asking for donations.  The La Crosse Tribune reports the donations are in honor of the world-wide program Giving Tuesday where people are asked to give extra to their favorite charities. 

On Saturday, November 24, at 3:15 a.m., a Barron County Sheriff’s Deputy attempted to stop a vehicle on Hwy P south of Almena for a suspicion of impaired driving violation. The vehicle failed to stop and took deputies on a two mile low speed chase. To get the vehicle to stop, the deputy executed a PIT (Pursuit Intervention Technique) maneuver on the car. Taken into custody without furtherincident was Abraham Mott, 35 of Rice Lake. During the chase, the car

An early winter storm is responsible for interfering with post-Thanksgiving travel.  Heavy snow hit Rock and Green counties yesterday and spread to parts of northern Illinois, Iowa, and Missouri.  Heavy, blowing snow created poor road conditions and caused flights to be cancelled at Dane County Regional Airportin Madison.  

Small business is a BIG deal! The holiday shopping season is underway and Eau Claire is getting in on the trend.  Local shoppers stepped out in town this weekend on Small Business Saturday. Many local businesses participated in the shopping event.  It has been going on since 2010.  Owners and staff say the event is a great way to show support to local businesses, many of which had renovations. 

The annual Run for the Lights is keeping the lights shining at the Christmas Village in Irvine Park.  The fundraiser happened yesterday with a family friendly 5K and one mile run-walk.  The Christmas Village is open through January 1st and is open to traffic in the evenings. 

The Santa Paws fundraiser for the Eau Claire County Humane Association is underway.  The annual fundraiser features handmade ornaments put together by a committee.  Ornaments have a wide range of prices.  All of the money goes back to the Humane Association.  

Chippewa Valley authors are sharing their work with others.  The Chippewa Valley Local Authors organization combined emerging and established writers to read live yesterday at the Pablo Center.  Eleven authors showed 30 second trailers of their books and gave a short speech about their work.  

A local singing group is sharing its music with the Eau Claire community.  Männerchor is an all-male vocal group made up of eighth through twelfth graders in the Chippewa Valley.  They gave their premiere concert yesterday evening at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The current group is a quartet from Fall Creek.