A health clinic in western Wisconsin was temporarily put into lockdown Thursday afternoon after a threatening phone call.

Just after 2 p.m., Barron County officials received a 911 call from a staff member at the Marshfield Medical Center Emergency Department in Rice Lake, stating that someone called and said two men were going to “shoot up the hospital” in about 20 minutes.

After interviewing the staff member later, it was determined that the man who called had disguised his voice and got upset before hanging up the phone, according to the Rice Lake Police Department.

Rice Lake police, the Barron County Sheriff’s Office and Wisconsin State Patrol responded to the scene, and the medical facility was secured.

Any patients who wanted to leave the facility were allowed to do so, authorities noted.

During the lockdown, law enforcement discovered there were similar threats, known as “swatting calls,” at other places across the state on Thursday.

At about 4:18 p.m., the lockdown was lifted, and authorities cleared the scene. Rice Lake police added that no one was injured during the incident.

The police department said it will continue investigating the threat with other law enforcement agencies.

The Rice Lake health center is roughly two hours northeast of the Twin Cities, and approximately 50 miles north of Eau Claire. The center’s website says it offers both inpatient and outpatient practice, covering a wide range of services.

A spokesperson for the health system told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS that the clinic was closed for the rest of the day Thursday, but hospital operations have since returned to normal.

“The safety of our patients and staff at Marshfield Medical Center-Rice Lake is our top priority,” the system added.

With the release of EA Sports College Football 27 right around the corner, it’s fun to look at how the video game sees the Wisconsin Badgers.

These past two seasons have been down years, no doubt, but Luke Fickell did a great job in the portal this offseason and has begun to rebuild what was once one of the most prestigious programs in the nation.

This article can’t possibly include every Badgers player in the game, but their overall rankings range from 64 to 85.

Wisconsin’s sixth-highest-ranked player is a kicker, and that should say everything you need to know about how EA Sports feels about this team.

• Shawn Eichorst will begin as Wisconsin’s new athletic director with a $1.6 million annual salary.
• His contract also includes annual increases and incentives, though specific details are not yet public.
• Eichorst’s starting salary is higher than predecessor Chris McIntosh’s 2025-26 salary.

MADISON – Shawn Eichorst will start as Wisconsin’s athletic director with a higher annual salary than his predecessor.

Eichorst will make an annual salary of $1.6 million along with built-in annual increases and incentives, a university spokesman told the Journal Sentinel.

That is above Chris McIntosh’s $1.5 million annual salary for the 2025-26 academic year. (That consisted of $1 million from the university and $500,000 from the UW Foundation.) McIntosh’s salary was set to increase by $50,000 for each year of his contract, which would have gone through June 30, 2029.

It also is well above Marcus Sedberry’s $875,000 annual salary for the nearly three months when he was interim AD. Sedberry’s salary is set to return to $334,805 “plus any intervening pay adjustments,” according to the offer letter from April.

An open records request from the Journal Sentinel for Eichorst’s contract, which will include more details about the increases and incentives, is pending.

Eichorst previously served as the deputy AD and chief operating officer at Texas for the last eight years. He also was Miami’s AD in 2011-12 and Nebraska’s AD from 2012-17. Before Miami, the Lone Rock native spent five years working with the Badgers under Barry Alvarez.