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Southeast Wisconsin is sending a conservative to the bench on the state’s appeals court. Judge Shelley Grogan easily beat Tony Evers-appointee Jeff Davis in yesterday’s election for the Second District Court of Appeals. Grogan clerks for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and is a municipal judge in Muskego. Davis was serving out the last of Brian Hagedorn’s seat on the appellate court. The second district seat covers all of southeast Wisconsin, with the exception of Milwaukee.

Two men are looking at homicide charges for their roles in an overdose death in Eau Claire last December. The D.A. yesterday filed reckless homicide charges against 19-year-old Noah Beckstead and 33-year-old Trenton Wik. Beckstead said he and the man who died bought what they thought was heroin from Wik. It turned out to be fentanyl.

Folks in Chippewa Falls want to continue to pick their own garbage company . Voters yesterday overwhelmingly said ‘No’ to a plan to hire a single company to handle all of the city’s trash. Sixty six percent of voters, or about a thousand people, said they want to keep things the way they are.

Most of Wisconsin’s 53 million-dollars for coronavirus awareness will be spent in the state’s underserved communities. The CDC yesterday awarded Wisconsin the money. The idea is to encourage more people to get the vaccine. More than a third of people in Wisconsin have already gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. But state health managers say many of those people are older and white. They’d like to see other groups in the state get vaccinated as well.

The fight over Governor Tony Evers’ list of businesses with coronavirus positives is most certainly headed for the state supreme court. An appeals court in Madison yesterday said the local business groups suing to stop the governor from releasing the list don’t have legal standing in the case. The governor’s office has teased the list for months, saying people need to know which businesses have seen positive cases. Business groups in the state say the list will unfairly punish any

Packer fans continue to find something to smile about during Aaron Rodgers’ stint as Jeopardy guest host. Rodgers yesterday paid tribute to both Alex Trebec and Brett Favre when he said ‘Following in the footsteps of a legend is something I know a little about.’ Rodgers’ will guest host the show through the end of next week.

 The family of fallen Capitol Police officer William “Billy” Evans says his death “has left a gaping void” that cannot be filled.  Tom Roberts has more.

Preparing to return to the classroom is the goal locally. Eau Claire Area Schools released the following statment outlining their plans for older students to return to in-person learning. See the full statement below: Students in grades 6-12 will begin in-person learning four days per week in coming  weeks.  School and District administration has determined that the Eau Claire Area  School District will increase in-person learning from two days a week to four days a week for  middle school students

The Department of Health Services reports 886 new COVID-19 cases statewide over the last 24 hours.  That number pushes the total number of confirmed positive cases to over 581-thousand.  There were eight new deaths confirmed today, raising the death toll from the coronavirus to 66-hundred-48. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.