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There is a new head women’s basketball coach at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Yesterday, Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced the school has hired Marisa Moseley as head coach of the women’s basketball team.  Moseley comes to Madison after a three-season stint as head coach of her alma mater Boston University where she has made her mark with a 45-29 winning record.  Before that she was an assistant coach at the University of Connecticut.

Usually in the classroom, teachers discourage monkeying around. However, for this weeks’ Friday Feel Good we turn that idea on it’s head! A kindergarten teacher in Washington state is going viral after he went above and beyond . . . grabbed his laptop . . . and took students on a virtual field trip from Zoom to the zoo. Proving that sometimes learning really can be a barrel of monkeys! CLICK BELOW TO HEAR MORE WITH Morgan McCarthy:

There are 434 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed by Department of Health Services today.  Those cases increase the total number of coronavirus cases since the beginning of the pandemic to just under 575-thousand.  No additional deaths were reported, keeping the COVID-19 death toll at nearly 66-hundred. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

A new bill signed by the governor will allow bars and restaurants to sell cocktails for takeout.  The bipartisan bill takes effect immediately.  The new law  means glasses of wine and mixed drinks can be sold for pickup but not delivery.  The containers for the drinks must have tamper evident seals.

The average price for regular gas is down a nickel a gallon compared to a week ago.  Triple-A says the average price at the pump in Wisconsin is two-dollars-and-64-cents a gallon today.  The national average is two-86.  Gas prices average 2.86 a gallon in the Pierce-St. Croix County area, 2.66 in Eau Claire, two-60 in Oshkosh and below two-60 a gallon in Milwaukee, Appleton, Green Bay, Fond du Lac and Racine.

Eau Claire County has COVID vaccine appointments available Saturday. The clinic is offering the Johnson and Johnson single-dose vaccine. A link to sign-up for an appointment is available on the Eau Claire City-County Health Department Facebook page. The clinic will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. COVID case numbers are going down in Eau Claire. The city-county health department says Eau Clarie County’s positivity rate is down and there have only been 66-new cases in the last seven

The number of charges against a man accused of drugging, raping, and filming women and girls in Racine County is growing. The D.A. in Racine yesterday filed formal charges against 46-year-old Shane Stanger. The sheriff says Stanger is a ‘sick pervert’ who drugged and raped women and girls as young as 10, and filmed the whole thing. Investigators in Racine are working with investigators in Iowa to see if Stanger has more victims there. He’s being held in jail in

Eau Claire County is going to get the 31-thousand-dollar jackpot from Big T’s Saloon’s shake of the day game. The district attorney yesterday settled the case against Terry Luer. He was busted last fall for having an illegal dice game at his bar. Luer is forfeiting the jackpot and paying court costs, but he’s not going to jail. He pleaded guilty to a felony gambling charge. But the judge says if he stays clean for a year, that felony charge

Chippewa Falls schools are sending pink slips to eight people, but the superintendent says it could have been worse. Superintendent Jeff Holmes says a wave of early retirements helped cushion the impact of a one-point-six-million-dollar hole in their budget. Not all eight people who are being let-go are teachers, though some are. Holmes says nothing is final yet. He said the budget could change dramatically before it’s finalized next month.

The state of Wisconsin is picking-up the tab for bottled water for some households in La Crosse. The state’s Department of Natural Resources is working with the Department of Health Services to get drinking water to people who live in the Town of Campbell. Some folks there are already getting bottled water from La Crosse because of high PFAS numbers in their well water. But hundreds of families were just above the state’s threshold, and the city refused to buy their water.