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May the Force be with you this May 4th.  More from Mark Mayfield. Today people around the world will celebrate Star Wars Day.  The unofficial holiday honoring Jedis, droids and the Force doesn’t get its roots from a galaxy far, far away.  Instead, it dates back to 1979 in Britain when Margaret Thatcher was named Britain’s first female prime minister.  To celebrate her victory, her party took out an ad in the London Evening News saying “May the Fourth Be

Vice President Kamala Harris is going to talk about jobs during her visit to Milwaukee. The VP is set to visit the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and then host a roundtable today on the new jobs President Biden is promising as part of his infrastructure plan. Harris is traveling the country this week, trying to sell the nearly two trillion-dollar plan that Republicans say spends too little on roads, bridges, and airports, and spends too much on new green energy initiatives that

We are getting a bit clearer of a picture of what happened at the Oneida Casino Saturday night. Brown County Sheriff Todd Delain yesterday said the gunman, 62-year-old Bruce Pofahl, was a former employee who’d been fired and banned from the property. Other employees say Pofahl was fired for harassment. Investigators say Pofahl shot and killed two kitchen workers at the casino. Officers shot and killed Pofhal as he left the building. Pofahl was fired earlier this year, and a

Federal prosecutors are bringing charges against two more Wisconsin men for being inside the U.S. Capitol back on January 6th. There is no evidence that Brandon Nelson and Abram Markofski committed any vandalism or violence while inside the Capitol building. Prosecutors are simply charging them for being inside. Markofski is a member of the Wisconsin National Guard, investigators say he told them he drove from the LaCrosse area to Washington, D.C. to be part of the protest in the capital that day. The two

 We’re getting some insight into the gun that Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey lost last year. A new video shows Shesky discussing the case with the police department. He says the pistol was stolen from his girlfriend’s car last fall. Sheskey had the gun in the car because he was not living at home following the Jacob Blake shooting. Sheskey says he had to be ready to flee at a moment’s notice, and wanted a gun in each of their

 School leaders in Eau Claire are not saying why test scores are dropping, but the numbers show they are clearly dropping. The city’s school board got a presentation last night that shows more kids are failing to read or do math at grade level than last year. Anywhere between a third and just over 46 percent of kids got the lowest scores on this year’s Star Assessment. The scores were lower for all elementary school kids in both reading and

Wisconsin’s effort to reach out to minority communities across the state is not changing the vaccine gap. The state Department of Health Services’ latest numbers show over 40 percent of the people vaccinated so far are white, just 20 percent are black. Most of the people who are vaccinated are also older. DHS has been working for months to get more people of color, and more younger people to get the shot. DHS says 43 percent of the state has

Tax day is later this year, but it is coming. The Wisconsin Department of Revenue yesterday reminded people that tax day is May 17th this year. That’s in two weeks. Revenue says about two-and-a-half million people have already filed their taxes, Wisconsin has about three million taxpayers. The state is encouraging people to file their taxes online this year, you can do that at the Department of Revenue’s e-file website. CLICK HERE TO GET THERE.

Department of Health officials are confirming 349 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours.  That brings the total number of cases to nearly 600-thousand.  There are 86-hundred active cases.  There were no additional deaths confirmed over the last day, maintaining the death toll at more than 68-hundred-and-30. The Department of Health reports three quarters of Wisconsin’s seniors are fully vaccinated.  Today’s data shows 81-percent of people 65 and older have received at least one shot.  Over 75-percent have completed the

Authorities in Brown County are identifying the suspect in the deadly shooting at the Oneida Casino as 62-year-old Bruce Pofahl.  Pofahl was a food and beverage director at the Duck Creek Kitchen & Bar at the casino.  He was fired earlier this year and returned Saturday night, killing Ian Simpson and Jacob Bartel at the restaurant and wounding a third employee who is listed in serious but stable condition.  Pofahl was shot and killed by police.  Sheriff Todd Delain gives