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It’s severe weather awareness week in Wisconsin.  The annual statewide tornado drill will take place Thursday at 1:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m.  During the drills people are asked to go over their severe weather preparedness plans.  If there’s a threat for severe weather Thursday the drills will be moved to Friday.

 A man accused of shooting two people in Wisconsin Dells last week is arrested in Indiana.  Police say the 22-year-old man was arrested by U.S. Marshals in Lafayette, Indiana over the weekend.  The suspect is accused of shooting two people in the 600 block of Vine Street last Wednesday.

Madison is one of the healthiest cities in America.  That’s according to WalletHub, which ranks Madison the 15th-healthiest city and the second-healthiest in the Midwest behind Minneapolis.  Madison ranked well in health care at eleventh and green space at 16th.  According to the report, the healthiest city in America is San Francisco and the least healthy is Brownsville, Texas.

Bryant Brenner has announced he will not return as the head coach of the Regis Boys Basketball team next season. Mr. Brenner, who is a math teacher at Regis High School and also serves as the head coach of the Regis Football team, has led the Regis Boys Basketball team since 2018. Mr. Brenner will continue with his teaching duties and will also continue to serve as the head coach of the Regis Football team. A search for his replacement

A Wisconsin community comes together after a shocking loss. Police in Sheboygan Falls are not providing many answers about the death of eight-year-old Oliver Hitchcock. He died over the weekend, just days after police say they found him at his mother’s apartment. She’s been arrested. Investigators are not saying what led to the attack, though they are calling it strangulation. Firefighters in Sheboygan Falls yesterday took to Facebook to ask people to wear purple today to honor Oliver’s life.

Police in Stevens Point say the suspect in last week’s shooting at a mobile home park had a small arsenal when they arrested him. Officers busted Daniel Reese Jr. on Saturday. He’s the main suspect in a shooting at a trailer park that sent one man to the hospital. Police say Reese sped away from them as they closed-in. Authorities say Reese had a pistol on him, and had several rifles and some body armor in his car.

The search for a missing UW Health surgeon is over. Authorities in Iron County, in far northern Wisconsin, say they found Kelsey Musgrove’s body yesterday morning near the Potato River Falls. She told friends that she was going hiking last week, but never returned. She was officially reported missing last Thursday. The sheriff’s department says they are looking into her death, but do not suspect foul play.

Eau Claire wants a count of how many people are renting their homes online. Community development director Scott Allen says if Eau Claire wants to write new rules for people who are using Airbnb or VRBO, they first need to know just how many people are currently using those kinds of services. Allen says Eau Claire will use software called Host Compliance to get a short term rental census. Allen says the hope is to figure out if Eau Claire

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday rejected Governor Evers’ request to allow him to submit new evidence in support of his map. The U.S. Supreme Court says Evers’ map violates the Voting Rights Act by moving black voters into different districts. The governor wanted to offer testimony from an expert who disagrees with that ruling. The decision from the Wisconsin Court means the state will have to wait a little longer to see what the final political map will be. Candidates are waiting for

We’re waiting to see just how far the state’s coronavirus hospitalization count will fall later today. As of Friday, the state’s Hospital Association said there were 164 people in the hospital with the virus. That includes just 32 in the ICU. Wisconsin’s hospitalization numbers peaked in January with over 22 hundred people in the hospital with the virus. CLICK FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.