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School leaders in Tomah are walking away from a school referendum that looks doomed to fail. The city’s school district last week said it is pausing plans to ask voters for up to 96 million-dollars for new schools because it doesn’t look like the plan would pass. No word on the next steps for new buildings and upgrades.

Younger teens in Wisconsin are not going to be able to work later on nights when they don’t have school. Governor Evers on Friday vetoed the plan which would have allowed teens under 16 to work as late as 11 p.m. The governor says he doesn’t want to create two separate systems of work requirements. Currently, 14 and 15-year-olds can only work until 7 p.m. during the school year and 9:30 during the summer.

Dane County is on-track to become Wisconsin’s largest Amazon hub. The company last week announced plans to build a 200 million-dollar distribution center in Cottage Grove. The new hub will be almost three-and-a-half million square feet, and should employ 15 hundred people. The plan is to start construction sometime this year. The Cottage Grove center would be Wisconsin’s fourth Amazon distribution center.

The new week will bring a new look at just how many people are in the hospital with the coronavirus in the state.  The Wisconsin Hospital Association on Friday said just over 13 hundred people are hospitalized with the virus.  That’s down nearly 400 people from the week before.  ICU numbers are down below 300.  We’ll get a new report later this afternoon. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS

Pharmacies across Wisconsin say people are not getting the new coronavirus treatment pills. Wisconsin has received more than 25 thousand courses of the two pills designed to treat the coronavirus, but pharmacists say they’ve only filled a few prescriptions. No one knows why the pills are not being used, though some pharmacists say there is confusion among doctors as to who should get the pills. And there may be confusion among sick people as to where to get the pills.

Kohl’s says the two offers to buy the company are too low.  The company on Friday said the offers from two investment firms does not “adequately reflect the company’s value.”  Both offers are for about nine billion-dollars.  Kohl’s is not saying just how much it thinks the company’s value is.  The company’s board has said it will listen to offers that reflect the value that Kohl’s has going forward.

We are going to have to wait for the final word on ballot drop boxes in Wisconsin.  The state’s Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit from Rebecca Kleefisch that asked for a decision on whether voters can drop-off their ballots in one of the boxes.  Kleefisch is, of course, running for governor.  The split decision means Wisconsin will have to wait until after this month’s primary for the court to decide drop boxes can be used going forward.  Conservative justices on the

The sheriff in one small southwestern Wisconsin County is offering jilted exes a way to get even this Valentine’s Day. The Iowa County Sheriff’s Office took to Facebook on Saturday offering a ‘Valentine’s Day Weekend Special.’ The sheriff says people can call-in and tell deputies where to find exes that have outstanding warrants. Part of the ‘special’ are ‘limited-edition platinum bracelets,’ and a “special Valentine’s dinner.”

 Wisconsin police say three people are dead in a shooting at an apartment complex in a Milwaukee suburb.  Brown Deer Police Chief Peter Nimmer. Officers responded to a call of shots fired at the apartments Saturday morning.  Police Chief Peter Nimmer says the 26-year old shooter lived at the complex.  Chief Nimmer says two people were shot dead besides the shooter who also apparently took his own life. A fourth person was shot in the leg and is expected to survive.

The driver of a pick up truck is okay after the vehicle fell through the ice on Lake Winnebago.  Police say yesterday afternoon the driver hit a weak spot on the ice and the truck broke through.   The driver tossed his cell phone out onto the ice and managed to crawl out of the submerged truck to call 9-1-1.   Police say he has to remove his pickup truck within the next 30-days.