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A former worker at the Molson Coors brewery in Milwaukee is facing felony charges for talking about shooting-up the place. The D.A. is moving ahead with terrorist threat charges against 28-year-old Jamal Jury. Milwaukee Police say Jury first made a comment about shooting co-workers at the brewery back on February 26th of last year, that’s the same day another man shot and killed five brewery workers. Milwaukee Police took Jury into custody in that case but cleared him. Molson Coors

A special education and inclusive practices professor is Eau Claire’s newest city council member. The council appointed Roderick Jones last night. He will serve-out the rest of former council member Mai Xiong’s seat. City Council President Terry Weld said the professor resonated with the council. and in addition to looking forward to future work, he hopes Jones will help improve the city’s relationship with the university.

Forecasters are looking to see whether yesterday’s storms produced a tornado or just some rotating clouds. Someone filmed a funnel cloud near the Village of Conrath in Rusk County last night at about 7:30. There are no confirmed reports of a tornado touchdown, but the video clearly shows rotation off in the distance. Parts of western Wisconsin were rolled by a storm system that moved through the area.

Wisconsin’s public health managers hope to hit President Biden’s Fourth of July vaccine goal. Department of Health Services Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk yesterday said it’s likely that 70-percent of adults in the state will have at least one dose of the vaccine by July 4th. Willems Van Dijk yesterday said right now, about 63-percent of adults in the state have gotten a shot. Nothing is guaranteed though. Willems Van Dijk said vaccination numbers in the state have steadily

A lot of different ideas will take the next step toward becoming laws at the Wisconsin Capitol today. Lawmakers are set to vote on everything from police reforms, to changes in absentee voting, to a return-to-work plan. Both the state Senate and the Assembly have votes scheduled today. Governor Evers is expected to veto many of the proposals that will get votes today.

There is a huge divide at the Wisconsin Capitol about what to do with the state’s extra four-billion-dollars. The state’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau yesterday said the latest numbers show Wisconsin will see an extra four-billion-dollars over the next two years. Governor Evers and Democratic lawmakers want the state to spend it on public schools, roads, and the UW System. Republican lawmakers want to use the money to pay for across the board tax cuts. Republicans will write the next state budget, but Governor Evers

The Republicans who are writing Wisconsin’s next state budget want to expand I-94 just west of Milwaukee. The powerful Joint Finance Committee yesterday approved plans to add more lanes to I-94 as part of the state’s transportation budget. It will cost Wisconsin 82-million-dollars just to plan for the project, but the work itself is expected to be over a billion-dollars. While lawmakers are ready to spend more on I-94, they are looking to spend less on buses in Milwaukee and Madison. Lawmakers agreed

The suspect in a Monroe County murder is hospitalized with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department is investigating an axe attack that killed one man and wounded two other people on Sunday.  Police were called about a domestic disturbance and a man with an axe shortly before noon on Sunday.  They found the suspect with a self-inflicted wound and took him into custody.  One of the wounded remains hospitalized and the other has been released.  The victim

 Children under the age of 12 will be involved in a new coronavirus vaccine study conducted by Pfizer.  The drugmaker says up to 45-hundred children will be enrolled and it will take place at more than 90 clinical sites around the world.  Also, the dosage given to children will depend on their age.  The U.S. currently allows children age 12 and over to get the Pfizer shots to protect themselves against the virus.

The manufacturer of Madison’s new fire truck says the vehicle is the first of its kind in North America.  The department debuted its first electric truck today which promises zero emissions while producing all of the pumper power needed to fight fires.  Pierce Manufacturing says the new truck seats six and can carry 500 gallons of water and can pump 15-hundred gallons per minute. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE AND SEE A PICTURE.