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Colten Treu wants a second opinion about changing his guilty plea. Treu yesterday filed an appeal to try and withdraw his guilty plea in the deaths of three Lake Hallie Girl Scouts back in 2018. Treu says his lawyers gave him bad legal advice. A Chippewa County judge turned down his request last month. Treu is serving 54 years in prison for the girls’ deaths.

Wisconsin’s coronavirus count continues to tick-up. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said the seven-day positivity rate is now three-point-four-percent. It was a little over two-percent last month. But Wisconsin was at 17-percent during the worst of the surge back in November. DHS says 246 people are in the hospital with the virus, including 64 in the ICU. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

Wisconsin’s Elections Commission is going to study voting at the state’s nursing homes, rather than push for new rules. The Commission yesterday decided against creating a new rule or pushing for a new law to clarify how to handle voting during a pandemic. Commission members say with vaccinations rising and coronavirus cases remaining flat, there’s not as much of a chance that nursing home voting will be an issue. The problem last fall was that nursing homes closed to visitors,

Add Chippewa County to the list of places in Wisconsin with wildfire damage. Firefighters dealt with a number of fires yesterday, including two in the Town of Wheaton. They are not alone as Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources says there have been hundreds of wildfires across the state already this spring. Governor Evers yesterday declared a state of emergency and called-up the National Guard to help fight the fires.   What that means is help. Wisconsin’s latest emergency will have National Guard troops

It is the end of an era at the University of Wisconsin. Barry Alvarez will announce his retirement later today. Alvarez has been at the school, either as football coach or athletic director, since 1990. He says it’s time to move on to something else. Alvarez is expected to leave the school sometime before the beginning of the next school year.

It is day two of full time, in-person classes for all kids in Chippewa Falls. The city’s schools returned to a normal schedule yesterday. It is the first time that all kids are in class, in-person in nearly a year. Superintendent Jeff Holmes says they are doing everything as safely as they can. He said it’s nice to have a sense of normalcy.

Aaron Rodgers’ stint as Jeopardy guest host will live online forever. One of the contestants used his Final Jeopardy answer to ask Rodgers ‘Who wanted to kick that field goal?’ during yesterday’s episode. Rodgers said ‘That’s a good question.’ Rodgers has made it clear that he didn’t want to kick the field goal at the end of the NFC Championship game.  Rodgers will continue his guest hosting duties today. Aaron Rodgers’ two-week stint as guest host of Jeopardy! started yesterday.

The second week of witness testimony is underway in the murder trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who’s accused of killing George Floyd.  The doctor who pronounced Floyd as dead and Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria Arradondo are to take the stand this week.  In a pre-trial motion hearing, Judge Peter Cahill issued a split-ruling allowing another part of Chauvin’s body worn camera to be shown to the jury.  Defense attorney Eric Nelson argued for all footage to be shown

Severe thunderstorms are headed for the central U.S. this week.  To start the week and going into mid week there are thunderstorms predicted for most of Minnesota, Wisconsin and  a portion of Iowa.  The National Weather Service also says late Tuesday and into Wednesday strong storms will bring heavy rains and damaging hail to parts of Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa. Locally we will keep you posted on any weather that could turn severe.

President Biden would welcome a congressional bill canceling ten-thousand dollars in student debt. So said Press Secretary Jen Psaki during her daily White House briefing.  Some Democrats have called for a much larger government cancellation of student loan debts.