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OakLeaf Medical Network members Oakleaf Clinics and Foot & Ankle Clinic will share the former Prevea medical clinic building they purchased together from HSHS. The new clinics are located at 2919 Stout Rd, Menomonie, Wisconsin 54751. OakLeaf Clinics is open now at the new location, and Foot & Ankle Clinic will move soon to the larger space. Foot & Ankle Clinic, will move soon from their previous Menomonie location into this larger space to accommodate their growing patient practice. OakLeaf

There is finally a name to go along with the human remains found in a Madison chimney back in 1989. Madison Police yesterday said they used DNA to identify Ronnie Kirk as the man whose bones were found in the chimney at the old Good ‘n Loud music store on University Avenue. No one is saying how his remains got into the chimney, investigators say he could never have squeezed into the chimney while alive. There’s also no word when

Wisconsin’s governor wants a judge to order the legislature to give him nearly 200 million-dollars for PFAS clean-up, hospitals in western Wisconsin, and a new literacy program across the state. Governor Tony Evers yesterday sued Republican lawmakers. He said the legislature has been holding-up his efforts to clean-up the state, and provide much needed relief to people across Wisconsin. The governor says the money has already been approved, but the legislature will not release it. Lawmakers have said the governor

Local officers were among those honored and added to the nation’s Police Officers’ Memorial . Cameron police officer Hunter Scheel and Chetek police officer Emily Breidenbach were killed in a shootout with a suspect last April. St. Croix County deputy Kaitie Leising died in a shootout in May of last year. Pepin County Sheriff’s Office officer Starre Miles, who died in a car wreck back in 1945 was also added to the memorial as was Milwaukee police officer Peter Jerving.

There will not be an investigation into how HSHS closed its hospitals in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services yesterday said it does not have the authority to open a criminal investigation into the hospital’s decision to close Sacred Heart and St, Joseph’s hospitals back in March. Eau Claire’s city attorney asked DHS last month to open an investigation, saying HSHS didn’t give Eau Claire enough time to plan for its closing.  DHS Secretary-designee Kirsten

The air above western Wisconsin is a little less-bad. The state’s Department of Natural Resources yesterday said the air quality over Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls is a little better than Sunday. Though, the DNR does expect smoke from Canadian wildfires to continue for a while. Those fires are burning for the second straight year.

Most of Wisconsin’s Red Lobsters look to have survived the first round of closings. Red Lobster this week closed 48 restaurants across the country as the company looks at bankruptcy. The Red Lobsters in Wauwatosa and La Crosse are among those that closed yesterday. But the restaurants in Appleton, Ashwaubenon, Eau Claire, Greenfield, Madison and Mount Pleasant all appear to still be open. Bloomberg first reported that Red Lobster is considering bankruptcy as a way to manage its debt and

Arena football is coming to Eau Claire. The Arena League yesterday said Eau Claire will be getting an expansion team. There’s no word on what the team will be called, or just who owns the team. The new Eau Claire team will join the Arena League next year. The Arena League includes teams from Duluth, Minnesota; Waterloo, Iowa; Springfield, Missouri; Kansas City, Missouri; and Hot Springs, Arkansas. League Commissioner Tim Brown will be in Eau Claire later this week to

The top Republican in the U.S. Senate wants to meet with the Secret Service about Milwaukee’s Republican National Convention. Mitch McConnell last week sent a letter to the Secret Service, asking to talk about security for this summer’s convention. McConnell says the convention’s security perimeter ‘may be creating a likely – and preventable – area of conflict.’ McConnell says he’s worried that protesters will threaten convention goers. RNC planners have said for weeks that they fear Milwaukee’s planned protest zone

Wisconsin’s supreme court is questioning whether it should once again allow for ballot drop boxes. The new liberal-majority court heard arguments from yesterday from a liberal group that says it’s unconstitutional to not allow Wisconsin voters to drop off their ballots at unmanned boxes throughout a community. The court’s conservative justices said there’s nothing in state law that specifically allows for ballot drop boxes, and pointed to the law that says absentee voting is a privilege in Wisconsin. Still, the