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The danger appears to be over in Waupaca County where the Manawa Millpond Dam looked like it was going to fail. The city’s fire chief yesterday said the dam at the millpond is holding. Storms dumped five inches of rain on Manawa on Friday, and the city evacuated about 100 people who lived near the dam. Now, Chief Josh Smith says they are focusing on cleaning-up. He says that will take a while. Many people who live in Manawa say

Police in Milwaukee are blaming the deadly wreck on Marquette’s campus on a drunk valet driver in a borrowed car. Prosecutors filed formal homicide charges yesterday against 23-year-old Marco Gomez. Police say he was working as a valet at a Milwaukee hotel when he took a guest’s Toyota, then crashed it into another car on the Marquette campus, and killed the driver. Investigators say Gomez was drunk at the time. He’s being held on 100 thousand-dollars bond.

It was a violent weekend in Milwaukee with 21 people shot, three of them died. Police in the city say at least five people were shot on the Fourth of July, Saturday the sixth, and Sunday. Four people were shot on Friday the 5th. Those 21 shootings include a double shooting on Friday, a quadruple shooting on Saturday, and a shooting that wounded a 12-year-old yesterday. The deadly shootings came on the Fourth of July and Sunday.

People took nearly 900 boxes of Narcan out of Eau Claire’s Narcan vending machine in the past year. The City-County Health Department says that’s saved lives. The county installed the vending machine last year, and it has been busy since. The health department says in addition to the 892 boxes of Narcan, people took 517 fentanyl test kits from the vending machine. The health department’s  Sarah Dillivan-Pospisil says there have been fewer reported overdoses so far this year, but she

UW-Eau Claire is once again on Money magazine’s list of best colleges. The magazine last week gave the Eau Claire campus three-and-a-half out of five stars. UW-Madison led the way on the Money list with four-and-a-half stars. The list tracks everything from costs, to financial aid, to graduation rates, to post-graduate earnings. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

ABOVE PHOTO: COURTESY OF STARDUST.COM New future for an old favorite? The curtain raises on an opportunity for someone else to take the wheel on our local drive in. Nick Meyer has owned the Stardust for four years, and says he’s looking to hand it off to someone else who wants to keep it as a drive-in. Whoever buys the Stardust will get a lot, the sale includes two movie screens, games, a playground, and a private house. The property

Wisconsin’s Democratic U.S. Senator is doing her best to speak as little as possible about President Biden and his mental faculties. Senator Tammy Baldwin told reporters yesterday that she is focused on her own race, and focused on the Democratic ticket in Wisconsin. She said she doesn’t know what the president’s future may hold. Baldwin skipped the president’s visit to Madison on Friday. On the other side of the ticket, Republicans in Wisconsin say Baldwin is afraid to appear on

Wisconsin’s state superintendent is already reacting to the gavel drop. A Dane County judge on Wednesday struck down parts of Act 10, the decade-old law that changed how teachers and other public employees can negotiate their contracts. State Superintendent Jill Undelry said striking down those contract changes will have a ‘profound impact’ on Wisconsin’s schools and teachers. Act 10 supporters say the law has saved school districts and local taxpayers 14 billion-dollars over the past decade-plus. Underly said she hopes

Residents of Manawa have been allowed to return to their homes after a levee was breached on Friday. Mayor Mike Frazier says the Manawa dam did not fail, but that a levee beside the dam was breached by floodwaters, sending the Little Wolf River rushing down the streets of Manawa. Police had evacuated residents living downstream after they noticed the erosion taking place. The National Weather Service in Green Bay says over five inches of rain fell in about four

Hello. We are glad you are here. Thanks for making us a small part of what is likely your busy day! Just like that we are on the other side of Independence Day, but perhaps you are carrying the celebrations into the weekend. Whether that’s the case or you are back to the “reality” of life we appreciate you spending some of your time with us! On Saturday mornings we like to intentionally slow things down a bit with a