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Speeding leads to an OWI arrest for an Illinois man. 39 year old Jeffery L Presley from Lansing, IL has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 1st offense, with four children in the vehicle under the age of 16. On 9/29 at 11:39 PM, Troopers from the Wisconsin State Patrol, Eau Claire Post stopped a vehicle for 90 MPH in a 70 MPH zone at mile post 91

Prosecutors in Eau Claire are dismissing the charges against the man who threatened the city’s school board president, because he’s already in prison. A judge this week dismissed the case against 33-year-old Jeremy Hanson from California. Investigators say he threatened school board president Tim Nordin back in March over Eau Claire Schools’ policy on gender transitions. Hanson is serving time in federal prison for a similar threat in another case. Prosecutors here say there’s no need to move ahead with

Xcel Energy and the Red Cross have crews from Wisconsin down in the hurricane zone in Florida. The Red Cross says 15 volunteers shipped out this week, they will help with recovery efforts. Xcel says about 35 Wisconsin crew members are part of a larger team that is headed down to Florida to help restore power. Neither is saying how long they expect their team members to be in the hurricane zone.

 It’s the latest sign of just how much school kids in Wisconsin lost during the coronavirus.  The state’s Department of Public Instruction yesterday released the scores for Wisconsin’s standardized tests from last year, and they are not good.  Not even 40 percent of kids are proficient in reading, writing, or math.  While math scores increased a tiny bit, reading and writing scores fell.  To make matters worse, last year’s scores are well below the test scores from before the coronavirus shut down schools

There are just three counties in Wisconsin reporting high coronavirus case levels, and they’re all in northwestern Wisconsin.  The latest report from the CDC says most of Wisconsin is seeing low coronavirus activity. Just Rusk, Barron, and Sawyer counties are reporting elevated levels, but that is likely because of their low populations. Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers have been steadily dropping for the past month or so.

Call it the Netflix Effect. As more people watch Netflix’s show on Jeffery Dahmer, more people are asking for a memorial for his victims in Milwaukee.  Dahmer famously murdered 17 men and boys, he ate some of them as well.  Milwaukee’s mayor’s office says the push for a memorial is not coming from the victims’ families, but from fans of the show.  Neighbors to the apartment building where Dahmer used to live say they’ve seen a growing number of people

The most recent poll shows Republican Tim Michels with a slight advantage over Governor Tony Evers  in the race for Wisconsin governor.  AARP Wisconsin shows Michels with 50 percent support while Evers has 47 percent.  In the race for senate, Senator Ron Johnson leads Democratic challenger Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes 51 percent to 46 percent.

Disaster Ready Chippewa Valley and Eau Claire County Emergency Management are excited to announce an upcoming public-private partnership conference in Eau Claire! You are welcome to join business, public sector, volunteer organizations, non-profit, and emergency management representatives from throughout Wisconsin in a discussion on how to make our communities more resilient. This summit will bring in speakers for cybersecurity, supply chain resilience, and workforce continuity amongst other topics. This is a free event that will also include a national training

The Marshfield Fire and Rescue Department recently learned it will receive $111,000 in state grant funding, a part of the $32 million in state emergency medical services (EMS) Flex Grants. Including the Marshfield Fire and Rescue Department, the EMS Flex Grant has been awarded to 442 Wisconsin licensed emergency medical services (EMS) throughout the state to help deliver pre-hospital emergency services. Originally, Governor Tony Evers directed the Department of Health Services to use $12 million in American Rescue Plan Act

One suspect remains on the loose after a robbery in Menomonie. Below is the press release and more information from Dunn County law enforcement: On September 29, 2022 at approximately 1:23 AM, the Menomonie Police Department was dispatched to a burglary alarm at a business in the Red Cedar Plaza, 2321 North Broadway, Menomonie, WI, near I-94 Exit 41. While officers investigated a burglary at that location, sheriffs’ deputies began checking the area for possible suspect vehicle(s). At 2:20 AM,