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Jurors in Barron are listening to the evidence against a woman who police say killed her cheating boyfriend. Melanie Kuula’s trial started yesterday. She’s accused of beating her boyfriend Brian Bents with a skillet and a spatula before stabbing him once in the chest back in 2019. Her lawyers say Kuula walked-in on Bents having sex with another woman.

It’s hard to see any real opposition to the plan to rename one of Green Bay’s bridges for Bart Starr. A couple of Green Bay-area lawmakers are asking to change the Walnut Street Bridge to the Bart Starr Memorial Bridge. Starr, of course, quarterbacked the great Packers teams of the 1960s. He passed away last year at age 85.

Wolf hunters in Wisconsin will have one week to fill their quota. The state’s Department of Natural Resources yesterday said wolf season will begin next Monday and run through the following Sunday. This is Wisconsin’s first wolf hunting season since the gray wolf came off the endangered species list last year. DNR says hunters can take 200 wolves in all. CLICK HERE TO HUNT DOWN MORE DETAILS.

The woman who ran La Crosse County’s health department is leaving for a state job. Jennifer Rombalski is heading to the state’s Department of Health Services. She will lead DHS’s Office of Policy & Practice Alignment. She has been the public health chief in La Crosse County for the past five years.

More kids and more local teachers could soon be a part of Eau Claire’s virtual school program. The city’s school board looked at expanding the program last night. The expansion could also mean adding local teachers. Right now, out of district teachers lead the online classes. Virtual school is different from the coronavirus-inspired online learning. Eau Claire’s virtual school program dates back to the fall of 2019 and currently serves 64 students.

More than one-in-ten people in Wisconsin have gotten at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported that just over 12-percent of people in the state have gotten a shot. That translates to just over 715-thousand people with one dose. DHS says over 240-thousand people have gotten both doses. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

 Lawmakers in Madison may finally get the answer as to where Governor Tony Evers plans to get the extra one-billion-dollars that he is planning to spend in his new state budget. The governor will deliver his budget address later tonight. He’s spent the past two weeks previewing his plan and outlining how he’d spend more than a billion-dollars on new programs. CJ Szafir, with the Institute for Reforming Government, says no one knows just where the governor is looking to

 President Biden is honoring President’s Day by celebrating our past leaders and the story of the American people. In a video address today, Biden referenced several past Presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson who he says helped the nation overcome the toughest of challenges.  Biden says despite the pandemic and civil unrest, there are better days ahead and America will never fail.  Biden says he will stand behind America and its people.

More people think a third political party is needed than ever before.  The latest Gallup poll shows 62-percent of Americans believe the “parties do such a poor job representing the American people that a third party is needed.”  The number is up from 57-percent in September and beats the previous record of 61-percent four years ago.  Only a third of people think the two major parties do a good enough job representing America.  The poll was conducted between January 21st

Wisconsin health officials report 405 COVID-19 cases statewide in the last 24 hours.  Today’s data pushes the total number of cases to over 555-thousand-700.  There were four additional deaths confirmed raising the total number Wisconsinites to die from COVID-19 to 61-hundred-and-66. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.