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More people in Wisconsin are getting their second dose of the coronavirus. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said nearly 350-thousand people in the state have now been fully vaccinated. That’s up nearly 100-thousand from last week. A full six-percent of people in the state have now gotten two doses. Another 806-thousand people have gotten just one.  You have to go back to the week of Thanksgiving for the last time Wisconsin didn’t report any coronavirus deaths. The state’s Department of Health Services

Wisconsin’s governor wants to end Native American mascots in the state’s high schools. Click to hear more 715 Newsroom coverage with Jon DeMaster: The governor’s budget includes 400-thousand-dollars that would pay high schools across the state to change their team names. The money would come from tribal gaming in Wisconsin. It’s not clear just how many schools in Wisconsin still have Native American names or mascots, but over 200 school districts have signed a petition asking them to change those names. The name

 Wisconsin’s Division of Criminal Investigation is helping look into an officer-involved shooting in Oneida that sent one man to the hospital. It happened about 1:30 yesterday morning in the parking lot of the Tribal Police Department. Officers got a call about a man at the station who was acting erratically. When an officer showed-up, the suspect opened fire. The officer returned fire and wounded the suspect. The officer was not hurt.

Wolf hunters in Wisconsin will head to the woods today. The state’s first wolf season since the gray wolf was removed from the endangered species list begins today. An appeals court judge on Friday denied a request from the state’s Department of Natural Resources to stop the hunting season. Hunters have until Sunday to bag 200 wolves.

Four of the newest Eagle Scouts in America are young ladies from southeast Wisconsin. All four received their honors yesterday. The Boy Scouts of America began accepting girls into their program back in 2019. Yesterday, Jaisyn Daher from Mount Pleasant, Caroline Scheidt and her younger sister Annie from Racine County, and Annastasia Wischki from Mequon all earned the Scout’s top honor.

The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Wisconsin is making progress.  More than three-hundred-thousand people are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in Wisconsin.  Yesterday, the Department of Health Services said more than a million doses of the vaccine have been administered in Wisconsin so far. 

A Medford man was arrested and received an OWI over the weekend. 34 years old Jess A Drost, 34 years of age, from Medford, WI has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 1st offense, with two children in the vehicle under the age of 16. On Saturday, February 20th, at approximately 8:40pm a Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper stopped an eastbound vehicle for speed on STH 29 near milepost

A church in Fitchburg gives away thousands of pounds of food.  The City On A Hill church handed out 35-thousand pounds of food yesterday.   It is the second such event sponsored by the church this month.  The program includes help from the Farmers To Families program and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. CLICK HERE FOR OUR LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND WAYS TO HELP

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A House committee is unveiling the new coronavirus relief package.  Click below to hear more from Jim Forbes: The giant 591-page bill includes the one-point-nine-trillion dollar proposal laid out by President Biden.  The House Budget Committee will review the bill on Monday, and it could be approved by the full House as soon as next week.  The relief package includes stimulus checks, unemployment assistance and tax credits for families and workers.