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The names of the jurors in the Derek Chauvin trial will remain sealed.  Brian Shook reports:

The U.S. Senate will hear testimony from Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube next week on how the platforms use their algorithms.  Members of Congress have continually pushed the social media platforms on their algorithms and selling user data for targeted advertising.  Democrats have raised concerns over the spread of extremist content and the role of their platforms in the organizing of the January 6th Capitol riot.

Nearly one-third of all Wisconsonites are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19.   That is the latest from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services in its latest data release yesterday.  Thirty-percent of those in the state or one-point-eight-million-people are fully vaccinated according to the latest data.  Around two-point-four people in Wisconsin have gotten one of two doses. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS. And the vaccine efforts get wild…literally! Madison’s zoo animals are eligible to get the COVID-19 shot.  Henry Vilas Zoo vet Mary Thurber

The decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn Governor Evers statewide mask mandate is leading some school districts to drop the requirement.  The Coleman School Board in Northeast Wisconsin voted this week to repeal the mask mandate as of this Monday.  District officials say there will be a continued effort to contact trace and monitor the health and symptoms of students, staff and parents.  Earlier this week the state received over 175-million-dollars in federal funding to conduct COVID-19 testing in schools.

 The average price for regular gas is up three-cents-a-gallon statewide over the last week.  Triple-A says the price at the pump in Wisconsin is 2.75-cents a gallon today.  That’s 13 cents below the national average of two-88.  Regular gas is two-67-a-gallon in Appleton, two-66 in Fond du Lac, two-72 in Madison and two-74 in Green Bay.  Drivers are paying two-dollars-and-77-cents in Kenosha County and La Crosse and 2.75 in Eau Claire. 

University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Katherine Frank urged state leaders Thursday, April 22, to support $5.6 million to allow the university to begin planning and design work for a Heritage Hall renovation. “We have been requesting funding to support planning and design towards eventual renovation since 2009, and the work simply cannot wait any longer,” Frank told the Joint Finance Committee during a public hearing held at UW-Stout’s Memorial Student Center. “Heritage Hall is one of our largest academic buildings, serving approximately one-third

Zoom! Before COVID-19, it meant going fast. Now, it means so much more! For this weeks’ Friday Feel Good, we head into the ZOOM classroom. Click below to hear more with Morgan McCarthy: This happened in January, but the video’s just going viral:  A high school biology teacher in Maryland named Wendy Franklin was doing a Zoom class, and realized all her students were muted with their cameras off.  So she was confused for a second, until one of them spoke up

Pills that you no longer need now have a safe place to go…other than the back of your closet. The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day will be held on Saturday, April 24th from 10am to 2pm at the Altoona Police Department and Marshfield Medical Center – Eau Claire. National Prescription Drug Take-Back days increase the awareness of safe medication disposal locations in Eau Claire County. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LOCAL INFO. Residents are encouraged to safely dispose of expired or

Fishing season is just a week away.   Wisconsin’s fishing season opener is May 1st.  The state department of natural resources says musky season doesn’t start until the end of May, and smallmouth bass must stay in the water until June 19th.  Kids 15-and-under can fish for free, but everyone else needs a license.

Eau Claire’s city parks are going green.  The city introduced organic fertilizing and treatment methods at Phoenix Park yesterday.  The City says they’ll no longer use Roundup on playground areas and weeds will be removed with an organic product instead of pesticides.