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Wisconsin was ranked the state with the best elder abuse protections in a new report. WalletHub, a personal finance app, used data like the rates of elder abuse and neglect or exploitation complaints. The study says Wisconsin ranked highly since there is criminal legislation to combat financial elder abuse in the state. Massachusetts, Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky followed Wisconsin on the list. California and Utah were at the bottom.

Eight Wisconsin communities will get eleven-million dollars for building safer roads. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says the City Madison will get more than six-point-two-million, the City of Milwaukee will get four-million, and Chippewa County will get 200-thousand dollars. The federal grant money is meant to create infrastructure and traffic safety programs to prevent road injuries and deaths. One-point-one billion dollars will be given out nationally through the Safe Streets and Roads for All grant program..

ABOVE PHOTO: Boone Woolsey, 28, will graduate with an associate degree in accounting on Thursday after working a fast-paced job in an emergency department while in high school and a more physical job of pouring concrete before his latest stint at Chippewa Valley Technical College.  After contemplating a nursing career and working for a local concrete company, Boone Woolsey took a right turn into accounting and hasn’t looked back.  “I’m a pretty tall guy – six foot six – and

One of the lawsuits surrounding a 2019 officer-involved shooting that left an Eau Claire County man dead has been dismissed. A federal judge yesterday tossed the excessive force lawsuit connected to Tyler Meier’s death. Police say he attacked an Augusta police officer, and the officer shot and killed him in self defense. Meier’s family claimed excessive force. Meier’s family continues to move ahead with a wrongful death suit in Eau Claire County court.

It’s been six months since a Sauk County boy allegedly walked into Devils Lake State Park on some sort of survival mission. The sheriff’s office yesterday said there are no new updates in the search for James Yoblonski. He’s been missing since mid-June when his dad said he took-off for the woods. Investigators say they have not gotten a report of a sighting in months, though they say their investigation remains open. Yoblonski’s father says he believes his son is

The legal battle between Eau Claire and the Town of Washington is over, and it clears the way for new homes to be built in the Orchard Hills area. The city council last night voted to drop its lawsuits against both the town and the DNR. The agreement to end the lawsuits comes with a new directive for developers who want to build houses in the Orchard Hills area. Developers must build homes, and will pay the town of Washington

Eau Claire County is ready to move forward with its jail renovation project. The county approved three million-dollars for the jail project earlier this year, now the county is ready to get started. County Board Chair Nancy Coffey says the plan is to remove two of the jail’s three group cells, and replace them with 12 individual cells. The work is ready, but Coffey says the county needs to figure out which account it will use to pay for the

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday refused to say if he is investigating, or planning to bring charges against Wisconsin’s alternate electors. Prosecutors in Michigan have filed charges against Trump electors there, and there are investigations in Arizona and Nevada. Kaul has been silent for months on an investigation here. Last week Wisconsin’s Trump electors settled a lawsuit over their plans, without admitting any wrongdoing.

UW regents may have changed their minds about swapping a few dozen diversity, equity, and inclusion jobs for nearly a billion-dollars from the state legislature. Regents will vote again today on the DEI deal with Republican lawmakers. That deal would have the university repurpose just over 40 diversity administrators in exchange for pay raises for 35 thousand UW workers, a new engineering building on the Madison campus, and millions more in other university needs. Regents narrowly rejected the same deal

Gay and lesbian lawmakers in Wisconsin want to change the state constitution to recognize same sex marriage. Same sex marriage in Wisconsin has been legal since 2014, but the state’s constitution, and some state laws continue to define marriage as between a man and a woman. The LGBTQ+ caucus in the legislature will introduce two plans today to change that. One would re-word the constitution, while the other would erase ‘man and a woman’ from state laws dealing with marriage.