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Marshfield Clinic Health System and Security Health Plan are now accepting applications from eligible school districts to implement b.e.s.t.® Universal Screening in the 2023-2024 school year. b.e.s.t. (Behavioral Emotional Social Traits) is an online screening tool designed to help education professionals build the emotional health of students and help identify students who may need additional positive behavioral support. Developed by School Psychologist Eric P. Hartwig, Ph.D., the tool provides educators recommended actions to take with students based on their behaviors.

ABOVE PHOTO: Unspooled Film and Animation Festival Director Jonathan Wheeler, lecturer of video production, and Outreach Program Manager Rebecca Thacker in Harvey Hall Theatre. For three days in May, professional filmmakers can rub elbows with University of Wisconsin-Stout video production and animation students, area high school students and the community in a new juried event.  The Unspooled Film and Animation Festival will run Friday, May 12, to Sunday, May 14, with films screened in the university’s historic Harvey Hall Theatre, as well as other local destinations.  Unspooled

A McFarland police officer is recovering after being dragged during a traffic stop. It happened Saturday after the officer pulled over a driver, but the driver sped away. McFarland’s police chief said on Facebook that the officer suffered only minor injuries. As of yesterday, police were still looking for the driver.

UW Regents say they are worried about the growing cost to get a college education, but almost every single one of them also voted to raise tuition at the state’s campuses. The UW’s five percent tuition hike passed Friday on a 15-1 vote. Only Technical College System President Rodney Pasch voted against the increase, saying those are real dollars that real students are going to have to pay. The five percent tuition hike is the first in a decade, and

The National Weather Service says Wisconsin’s Friday night tornado count stands at nine. Forecasters say the line of storms that cut across the southern part of the state Friday dropped twisters in Walworth County, Rock County, Green County, Dane County, Jefferson County. Walworth County saw three tornadoes, while Green and Rock counties saw two each. Only two of the tornadoes were EF1s, which means they had wind speeds over 80 miles-per-hour. There are no reports of any serious injuries or deaths,

The man who killed four people back in 2021 and left their bodies in a western Wisconsin corn field is looking at 160 years in prison. A jury convicted Antoine Suggs last week of the murders of four people found inside an SUV in Dunn County two years ago. Investigators say the four were killed in Minnesota, then dumped in Wisconsin. Suggs’ father was also charged in the case, he pleaded guilty.

There won’t be any criminal charges following the investigation into Eau Claire County’s Department of Human Services. La Crosse County D.A. Tim Gruenke on Friday said he didn’t find ‘facts that were deserving of a criminal offense, especially considering the burden of proving a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.’ Gruenke was called-in to look into a three-point-three million-dollar budget shortfall at DHS. He said he found some issues inside the department, but nothing that was a crime. Eau Claire County’s

On April 2, 2023 at approximately 2:24 PM, the Dunn County Communication Center received a call from an individual reporting a structure fire at a residence in the N5700 block of CTY TK E, Town of Red Cedar, Dunn County, Wisconsin. The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office and Menomonie Fire Department were dispatched to the scene. Heavy smoke and flames were visible. While engaging the fire, firefighters located a person in the residence. The person located, 74 year-old Jerome Gassert, was

Wisconsin’s election managers are sending out their usual Election Day reminder to remember your voter ID. The Wisconsin Elections Commission says everyone who plans to vote in tomorrow’s election will need a photo ID. The Commission is also reminding people that they can register at the polls, and that voters can return absentee ballots to the polls as well. Polls open at 7 a.m. tomorrow, and will stay open til 8 p.m.

Wisconsin lawmakers will begin their work on the state budget this week. The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee will hold its first public hearing Wednesday in Waukesha. Its one of four that will help craft the state’s new two-year spending plan. After the hearing in Waukesha, lawmakers will be in Eau Claire and the Wisconsin Dells next week, and in Minocqua in the last week of the month. Lawmakers will then return to Madison and draw-up a new budget that they will deliver to