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A UW professor with ties to the plagiarism case that ended Harvard President Claudine Gay’s career says it’s no big deal. University of Wisconsin professor emeritus David Canon says Gay didn’t really plagiarize his work, he says she simply used a similar definition when taking pieces from his book Race, Redistricting, and Representation. Canon says ‘good definitions use ‘similar language.’ Gay resigned as Harvard president yesterday.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has awarded $1 million in producer-led watershed protection grants (PLWPG) to 47 farmer-led groups for 2023. Grants support producer-led conservation solutions by encouraging innovation and farmer participation in on-the-ground efforts to improve Wisconsin’s soil health and water quality. “Across the state, producer-led groups are doing tremendous work caring and advocating for our state’s land and water resources, and those efforts continue to grow year after year. This program supports farmers

There are formal charges for the Chippewa Falls woman accused of stabbing a man in the eye and beating him with a baseball bat on Christmas Day. Prosecutors filed attempted homicide charges yesterday against 54-year-old Laura Feala. Police in Lake Hallie say she allegedly attacked her boyfriend on Christmas Eve, stabbing him 15 times, including once in the eye.  A judge yesterday set her bond at a quarter-million dollars.

President Trump will be on Wisconsin’s presidential primary ballot. The state’s Presidential Preference Selection Committee met yesterday, and quickly agreed to the names that will be on the ballot in April. Former President Trump, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Christ Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Asa Hutchinson all made the Republican ballot. President Joe Biden was the sole Democrat nominated. The ballot only covers the presidential primary, there will be a different process to set the ballot for next November.

There are four candidates for two seats on Eau Claire’s school board. The city’s school district yesterday said Joshua Clements, Heidi Harings, Kathleen Kivlin, and Erica Zerr all qualified for the ballot. Clements and Zerr are running for reelection, while Harings and Kivlin are new challengers. Voters will make their decision in April. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL STORY WITH OUR PARTNERS AT WEAU 13 NEWS.

New drivers in Wisconsin will, once again, have to prove their skills on the road. The DMV yesterday said it is ending the road test waiver program that began during the COVID outbreak. The state issued nearly 170 thousand waivers to new drivers in the nearly three years that road tests weren’t available. The DMV says it hasn’t seen any ‘negative effects’ of the waiver program, but decided to end it anyway.

The IT consulting subsidiary of a Lancaster-based business has purchased a professional services firm based in Wisconsin. Chortek LLP is a company that also uses the Sage ERP business and accounting software system. The acquisition brings four people to RKL eSolutions. A spokesperson for RKL says the former Chortek employees will work remotely for the Lancaster software company.

The Wisconsin birth rate increased two-point-five percent while Planned Parenthood paused abortions last year. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics study says more than 15-hundred of the babies born in Wisconsin since June of 2022 were a result of Roe v. Wade being federally overturned. Wisconsin became one of 13 states with what the study classifies as a total abortion ban — but a Dane County judge ruled earlier this year that consensual abortions are legal in the state. Of

On Tuesday, January 2, 2024, a deputy with the Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office responded to an EMS call in the Township of Drammen, Eau Claire County. The information dispatched by the Eau Claire Emergency Communications Center was that a large oak tree had fallen on top of a subject who was also the 911 caller who was also alone. The subject was trapped underneath the tree and complained of back and leg pain. The deputy arrived on scene and

   The end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024 came with a few big wins for Wisconsin Lottery players between December 31 and January 1.  A winning $350,000 SuperCash! ticket was purchased at True North Energy on 1370 Jacobson Rd. in Neenah for the December 31 drawing. It was the twelfth winning SuperCash! top prize ticket sold in 2023. The winning numbers were 3-7-20-26-31-36. One day later, a winning $50,000 Powerball ticket and a winning $100,000 All or Nothing ticket were reported following the January 1 drawings. The $50,000 Powerball ticket