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The best jump ropers in the country are in Milwaukee this weekend. The city is hosting the American Jump Rope National Championship. Hundreds of teams from across the country, including a team from Fond du Lac, will compete for the national crown. Yesterday’s competition focused on speed, but there will also be doubles, a double-dutch, and a freestyle category. You can watch the championships on YouTube or in person at Panther arena.

A Wisconsin horse tests positive for West Nile Virus.  The Dunn County Health Department says it’s the first West Nile case in Wisconsin this year.  The health department says this confirms West Nile is present in mosquitos in Dunn County

A chair that was stolen from the Wisconsin Memorial Union is being returned after going missing for over 30 years.  University of Wisconsin-Madison police say the sunburst chair was returned this week by an alumni that said they wanted to set an example for kids.  The chair went missing back in 1992.

Wisconsin is celebrating a top 30 finish in this year’s Learfield Directors’ Cup.  The Badgers finish the 2022-2023 school year 27th overall and fourth in the Big Ten.  The Directors’ Cup awards points to schools based on their athletic programs’ postseason performance.  Wisconsin’s best performing program was men’s track and field, finishing 20th at outdoor nationals and 16th at indoors.

Wisconsin is one of the most independent states in the country.  That’s according to WalletHub, which ranks Wisconsin ninth based on five sources of dependency.  Wisconsin’s best category is government dependency, ranking eleventh.  Wisconsin also has the highest employer-based retirement access and participation and the fourth highest average credit score.  WalletHub says the most independent state is Utah and the least is Louisiana.

Today, AARP Wisconsin announces that the City of Altoona has received a 2023 Community Challenge Grant – part of the largest group of grantees to date with $3.6 million awarded among 310 organizations nationwide. Altoona’s $10,000 grant is one of six awarded to projects across the state that will receive a combined $84,300. Other Wisconsin grants were awarded to two projects in Milwaukee and one each in La Crosse, River Falls and Stevens Point. “AARP Wisconsin is committed to working

It will be another day of air quality warnings for people across southeast Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Natural Resources is keeping its air quality warning in place til midnight tonight. Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Dodge, Dane, and Sauk counties have the highest warnings and worst air quality in the state. Forecasters yesterday said Brookfield had the worst air quality in the world at one point yesterday afternoon. Smoke from the Canadian wildfires is the biggest factor. Here closer to us, Eau

One deputy is recovering and two others are on leave after a chase, and an officer-involved shooting in Washburn County. It started Sunday with a traffic stop. That’s when deputies say the suspect sped away, drove to a campground, and tried to hide. He got away because a deputy’s car reportedly malfunctioned and hit some trees. That deputy had to be cut-out of the car and taken to the hospital. On Monday deputies were back searching for the suspect when

Eau Claire is moving ahead with the Dewey Street Bridge replacement. The city council last night voted to replace the century-old bridge, rather than renovate it. A new bridge will cost just over 14 million-dollars, but Eau Claire will only have to pay about four-million dollars of that. The Dewey Street Bridge isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. City engineers say it will be at least 2026 before work could start on a new bridge.

The city of Eau Claire is giving Target some of its tax money back. The city council last night approved a 25-thousand dollar settlement with the company. Target had complained that its tax bill was too high. The 25-thousand dollars is just a portion of the 250-thousand dollars in taxes that Target pays the city each year. City attorney Steve Nick says the settlement amounts to a two-percent tax cut for Target.