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Slam Dunk for MVP

By Morgan McCarthy | March 8, 2021

Add NBA All Star MVP to Giannis’ resume. Giannis didn’t miss a single shot in last night’s All Star game in Atlanta. He finished the night with 35 points as Team LeBron went on to win the game 170 to 150. Giannis says he didn’t realize he was perfect until after the game.

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Bucky Calls Foul

By Morgan McCarthy | March 8, 2021

Badger fans are not the only ones upset with the refs in yesterday’s game against Iowa.  Wisconsin lost 77-73, in large part because of a late game foul that gave Iowa two points and the ball. Badger coach Greg Gard said the foul was wrong, and said if the refs are going to continue to make those kinds of calls then college basketball is in ‘big trouble.’ Gard says the refs should have let the two teams play, and not step-in

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Floyd Trial Set to Begin, Family Urges Peace

By Morgan McCarthy | March 7, 2021

The family of George Floyd is calling for peaceful protests for racial equality.  On CBS’s Face The Nation, the family’s attorney Benjamin Crump says they anticipate the trial will still begin in Minneapolis this week despite some last minute changes in the case.  Jury selection is set to start Monday in the trial of Floyd’s accused killer, Derek Chauvin.

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Slender Man Suspect Planning to Request Release

By Morgan McCarthy | March 7, 2021

A woman suspected in the Slender Man stabbing is planning to request her release from a mental facility.  Nineteen-year-old Anissa Weier has spent the last three-and-a-half years at a Wisconsin psychiatric hospital after she and another friend allegedly stabbed a classmate 19 times.  The two girls told police at the time they did it to placate a fictional horror character known as Slender Man.  Weier was sentenced to the maximum penalty of 25 years in the mental facility after three years of

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WI Vaccination Efforts Continue

By Morgan McCarthy | March 7, 2021

Ten percent of Wisconsonites are fully vaccinated against COVID-19.   The Department of Health Services said yesterday that nearly six-hundred-thousand have both doses while another million people have gotten dose number one.  Close to  50-thousand doses of the newly approved single shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine are expected to arrive in Wisconsin sometime this week. CLICK ON WI DHS.

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Evers Plans on Extending WI Mask Mandate

By Morgan McCarthy | March 7, 2021

Governor Tony Evers says he’ll be extending the COVID-19 mask mandate again once the current one expires.  The Governor made the statement Friday during at an event in Manitowoc.  The Governor said that it is still his view which he claims is based on science is that, “At the end of the day, it is important that people wear a mask.”  The current mask mandate is supposed to expire March 20th.

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Project Moves Forward, Sights on 2023

By Morgan McCarthy | March 7, 2021

The Center for Black Excellence and Culture project in Madison moves forward.  Organizers say the effort now has the participation of the prestigious Lord Cultural Resources for Business Planning.  The group was instrumental in setting up the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C.  The new center in Madison is intended to celebrate Black culture and history.  The new center should be ready sometime in 2023. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

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Plane Makes Emergency Landing on Road

By Morgan McCarthy | March 7, 2021

 A small plane makes an emergency landing on a road in Baraboo.  The incident happened yesterday afternoon when the single engine plane landed on Highway 136.  It so happens that at the time, the portion of the road used for the landing was closed due to nearby bridge construction. The pilot, Michigander Joseph Fullerton says he had a fuel line issue which led to the emergency landing.  There are no reports of injuries.  A tree branch damaged one wing.

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On This Day…

By Morgan McCarthy | March 6, 2021

Hello. Welcome to your day. We are glad you are here. The week’s can sometimes seem long and stressful, which is why we like to start Saturday’s on a lighter note. This is a little “scroll down memory lane” to look back at some of the events along the pages of history that have lead us here to this March 6th. A mini history adventure to start your weekend. Let’s see where the trip takes us! Today is Saturday, March

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WI Vaccine Information, Registry Launched

By Morgan McCarthy | March 6, 2021

Wisconsin’s COVID-19 vaccination program is one of the tops in the nation. WKOW reported yesterday that University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Ajay Sethi says the state is number three in the country with the percentage of vaccine received to that which is actually administered.  Sethi says Wisconsin is administering around 85-percent of doses received.  Madison takes its first delivery of the Johnson and Johnson COVID single dose vaccine.  Nearly 12-thousand doses arrived at the Public Health Madison and Dane County offices Friday.  The doses

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