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There is a new challenge that could keep one of the Republicans running for governor off the ballot. A voter in Madison, with the full support of Democrats in the state, has challenged Tim Michels’ campaign paperwork. State law requires candidates to include their mail address on their paperwork. Michels is accused of listing his address in Chenequa instead of his mailing address in nearby Hartland. Democrats say Michels is making election integrity an issue, and should follow election laws

We are waiting for more information about a deadly crash in Wood County. It happened yesterday afternoon near Auburndale. The State Patrol says a flatbed truck smashed into a van on County Highway M. One person in the van died, several others were injured. Investigators say they are still looking into the wreck.

It was a robbery-gone-bad. Milwaukee Police say they’ve finally arrested a man in connection to the January murders of six people on the city’s northwest side. Prosecutors filed charges against 34-year-old Travis Birkley on Saturday. Court documents say Birkley and at least two other men killed the six during a robbery that turned south. This is not Birkley’s first homicide case. He was adjudicated as a teenager in 2002, but the details of that case are in juvenile court. Birkley

We could get some more clarity this week about the rules for so-called forever chemicals in Wisconsin. A judge in Waukesha has a hearing scheduled this afternoon in a case dealing with PFAS chemicals. The state’s largest business group, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, is challenging orders from the state for businesses to clean-up the chemicals from their land and water because of possible contamination. WMC says the state doesn’t have any defined standards for PFAS pollution, and wants the rules spelled-out before more

Gas in Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley is a bargain. Triple-A puts the average price for a gallon of regular in Eau Claire at four-dollars and 65-cents. It’s four-67 in Chippewa County, and four-63 in Dunn County. That’s cheaper than the above-five-dollars per-gallon in and around Milwaukee.

Wisconsin is starting the week with a little under 400 people in the hospital with the coronavirus. The state’s Hospital Association on Friday said 397 people are hospitalized with the virus. That includes 65 in the ICU. You have to go back to August of last year to find the last time there were that many people hospitalized with the virus in the state. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

Police in La Crosse have a teenager in custody in a murder investigation involving another teen.  On Friday, 18-year old Sage Hicke turned himself in to police.  He is expected to be charged as early as Monday with first degree intentional homicide in the shooting death of 15-year old Storm Vondrashek in May.  La Crosse Police say their investigation is still open and ongoing with more details to be released about the case at a later date.

The annual Cows On The Concourse event helps kick off National Dairy Month in Madison.  The family friendly event was back on Capitol Square yesterday after a two-year absence due to the COVID shutdown.  Dane County and Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin host the festivities as a vehicle to let everyone know how the dairy sector works and its impact on diet and health and on the Wisconsin economy. TO BE PART OF THE BREAKFASTS AND EVENTS CLICK HERE

The organizers of Madison’s Curd Fest are getting ready for the tasty event which comes up in July this year.  The festival happens Saturday, July 23rd from 4:00-p.m. to 8:00-p.m. in Breese Stevens Field.  Visitors can enjoy plenty of food, games, art exhibits, contests and more.  BreeseStevensField-dot-Com-slash-festivals has the details with an easy click here.

A school district drops its investigation into the alleged misuse of personal pronouns by some students.  On Friday the Kiel Area School District said it closed its investigation into three middle school students’ alleged refusal to use “they” when referring to fellow students who prefer that pronoun rather than he or she.  The district was looking into whether the students had violated Title IX sexual harassment policy.  The accused’s attorneys at Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty say the district made the