Home

The National Foundation for Women Legislators (NFWL) is proud to announce Chippewa County Board Supervisor Kari Ives as a 2022 Elected Women of Excellence Award winner.This award was created to identify women who have worked tirelessly to serve their communities.The 2022 Women of Excellence winners will be presented with an award during NFWL’s 2022 Annual Conference in Charleston, South Carolina. The reception will bring together elected women conference attendees from across the country to recognize the accomplishments of Women of

The fall colors are poppin’ during this beautiful Wisconsin Fall. BEyond just the leaves, we often see the combines in the fields and our farmers working hard on harvesting crops.  For this week’s Friday Feel Good we bounce nearby to Minnesota, where a farmer in Minnesota is seeing his fields harvested, but with the help of extra hands.  See, he was in a bad crash back in August when he swerved to avoid a puppy that ran out into the road.  And he’s still

Attorney General Josh Kaul today announced that Terry Lynn Culver, 64, of Oshkosh, has been convicted of eight class H felonies in relation to the theft of over $426,000 from a 92-year-old resident of a nursing home. The charges are the result of a joint elder abuse and tax fraud investigation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) and Wisconsin Department of Revenue (DOR). “DOJ’s Medicaid Fraud Control and Elder Abuse Unit works diligently to bring those who cheat seniors

The Eau Claire City-County Health Department is offering free adolescent vaccinations at upcoming clinics at South Middle School, Altoona Fire Station, Northstar Middle School, and DeLong Middle School. Students can get a flu shot (age 6 months+), COVID booster (age 5+), Tdap (age 11+), Meningococcal (age 11+), or HPV (age 9+) vaccines during the school day at no cost. Free COVID boosters will also be available for anyone age 5+ at these clinics. Clinics are open to non-students and adults

A man is under arrest for allegedly punching a suspected drug dealer for trying to sell him soap.  Madison Police say the incident happened at about 1 o’clock yesterday morning.  The buyer told officers he was suspicious so he tasted the drugs and they turned out to be soap.  The dealer who got punched called 9-1-1.  Police arrested the puncher who is now looking at battery charges.

Patients at Advocate Aurora in Wisconsin are getting a warning that their personal information may have been exposed.  The hospital system yesterday said as many as three-and-a-half million people may have had their information shared with other companies.  The information was included in the data collected by Google and Facebook’s parent company Meta that tracked patients’ medical providers, the type of appointment or medical procedure, dates and locations of scheduled appointments.  Advocate says it doesn’t think any of the information that was

The sheriff in Shawano County believes that someone threw a 55 gallon drum of diesel-fuel mix into that bonfire that exploded last weekend.  Investigators yesterday updated their look into the bonfire explosion in Maple Grove that injured as many as 40 young people.  Deputies say someone tossed the drum, which was about a quarter full, into the fire last Friday night. Investigators say they’ve spoken with 20-or-so people who were at the bonfire, and they are looking to speak with

 Darrell Brooks Jr. says there are two sides to every story.  He cried yesterday as he began his defense in the Waukesha Christmas Parade trial.  Brooks is acting as his own lawyer in the trial, and started his day yesterday by calling two witnesses.  Brooks is facing life in prison for a host of charges, including six counts of homicide.  Prosecutors spent two weeks tying Brooks to the attack at the parade last year.  Brooks, for his part, tried to

The bone found in a Dunn County creek is human, but it is not new. Scientists at the state crime lab say the jawbone found in the creek in Menomonie is from an ancient Native American. There’s no exact date as to just how old the bone is. A pair of fishermen found the bone back in July. The state crime lab says it was likely only found because the water levels were so low at the time.

It was a busy day for police departments across southeast Wisconsin as they rushed to local schools after getting calls about school shootings.  More than a dozen different schools got a call about a shooter yesterday.  All of the calls were fake.  This is not new or isolated to Wisconsin.  Many states have seen similar waves of fake school shooter calls.  The FBI says it is working on the case. Nearest to us, it looks like Cameron Schools were the only ones in