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Green Bay Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers tests positive for COVID-19.  The positive test as reported by the NFL Network will keep Rodgers out of Sunday’s game against the Chiefs.  Jordan Love will get his first NFL start when the Packers take the field against the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium.  The Packers backup quarterback Kurt Benkert has also tested positive for COVID leaving Love as the team’s sole quarterback.

 Mayo Clinic is preparing to vaccinate children 5‒11 for COVID-19, with vaccinations to begin Friday, Nov. 5. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now granted emergency use authorization of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 5-11. Nationally, nearly 28 million children are now eligible to be protected by a COVID-19 vaccination. In clinical trials, the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was at least 91% effective in children 5‒11. The COVID-19 vaccine for 5- to 11-year-olds is one-third of the adolescent/adult dose but

The University of Wisconsin-Stout Veterans Club and the Veteran Services Office are planning a week of events to celebrate Veterans Day from Monday, Nov. 8, to Friday, Nov. 12. Veterans Day is Thursday, Nov. 11. Starting Nov. 8, club members will place U.S. flags in the east-side amphitheater of the Memorial Student Center to honor members of the U.S. military affiliated with UW-Stout students or staff members who died, went missing in action or were prisoners of war while serving

The Wisconsin Historical Society says a centuries-old canoe pulled out of Lake Mendota is a window to the past. Divers brought the 12-hundred-year-old canoe out of the lake yesterday. Researchers say the canoe has been in the water since about the year 800, that’s hundreds of years before Europeans arrived in America. The plan is to preserve the canoe, then put it on display.

No one is leaving the school board in Mequon. Voters in the city’s school district yesterday voted to keep four school board members who were facing a recall effort. Each of the four got at least 58 percent of the vote. Parents in Mequon-Thiensville schools launched the recall after they say the school board ignored them during the coronavirus outbreak, and allowed the school’s standards to fall. Recall organizer Amber Schroeder last night said she’s proud of the fight that

The latest proposal for Wisconsin’s political map would continue to leave Republicans in charge of the state legislature. The People’s Map Commission released its map recommendations yesterday. The map would shift 12 Assembly seats from Republican to Democrat, and would shift one Senate seat as well. The result would still be a Republican majority in Madison, but it would be a smaller majority. Governor Evers likes the People’s Map, but it’s just a proposal.  Republican lawmakers have approved a map of

More votes are being counted today hours after polls closed across the nation.  At least two mayoral races are proving to be historic.  New York City elected Eric Adams as its second Black mayor while Boston appears to have chosen the first woman and first person of color.  Michelle Wu gave a victory speech after her challenger conceded.  And in the two races for governor held yesterday, Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin is celebrating after defeating Democrat Terry McAuliffe but there’s still

The jury will likely hear from Kyle Rittenhouse before his trial is over. Rittenhouse’s lawyers say he plans to testify in his homicide case in Kenosha. Yesterday saw opening statements. Prosecutors say Rittenhouse instigated the situation that ended when he shot and killed two people and wounded a third back in August of 2020. Rittenhouse’s lawyers say the crowd was the instigator, and said one of the men Rittenhouse killed had threatened to kill him just a few minutes before

One of the three missing teenagers from Juneau County has been found and is safe. The sheriff in Mauston yesterday said Alessandra Roose has been located. Investigators are not saying where she went, or where she was found. Roose went missing last week, as did Angelina Starkey and Mariah Davis. All of them are 16. The sheriff’s office does not believe their disappearances are connected. 

Eau Claire County’s Department of Human Services looks to be growing after all. The full county board last night rejected the proposal to hire just six new employees at DHS.  That means DHS will likely see 12 new staffers during the next budget. Some county commissioners wanted to limit the new hires, and save some money.