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The executive producer for “Jeopardy!” is revealing the next set of guest hosts.   Mike Richards announced Tuesday, journalists Anderson Cooper, and Savannah Guthrie, as well as Doctor Oz and Doctor Sanjay Gupta, will fill in for the late host Alex Trebek.  Each guest host will get to raise money for a charity of their choice.  “Jeopardy!” will match the amount of money accumulated by the contestants on each episode.

Keep the spares in your glove compartment and extra masks handy. Locally, we will continue to “mask up” after a vote went down. Both the city and the county approved local mask mandates last night. The requirements only kick-in if Governor Evers’ statewide mask mandate is struck down. Both the city and county overwhelmingly approved the mandates, with the vote being 24-4 on the County level and unanimous on the City Council side.

Wisconsin is doing a better job of getting people in the state a coronavirus vaccine shot, but the state is still lagging in getting people both of their shots. The CDC’s latest numbers show Wisconsin is ranked 29th in the nation in the number of people who’ve received a vaccine dose. The state was 45th in that category last week. But Wisconsin is 44th in the nation when it comes to the number of people who’ve gotten both doses. The CDC says a little over

Homeless people in Chippewa Falls are a step closer to having a place to stay. The city’s Common Council last night approved a tiny home development that will serve as a homeless community. The community is set to be built off of Kennedy Road, near the Chippewa Falls water tower. There will be 10 tiny houses and 28 low-income apartments.

Pink slips are coming for Chippewa Falls schools, but no one knows just who will lose their jobs. Superintendent Jeff Holmes sent a letter to district employees this week explaining that a drop in enrollment will leave a one-and-a-half-million-dollar hole in the next budget. Holmes says there is no way to patch that hole without layoffs. The superintendent is not saying who or just how many people will lose their jobs. There is a meeting scheduled for tomorrow to talk

Fire investigators in Burlington aren’t sure what caused a fire that destroyed six school buses, but they don’t think it was a crime. Flames gutted a half dozen buses at the Thomas Bus Service lot in the Town of Burlington yesterday morning. Burlington schools canceled classes because of the fire. No one was hurt, but the buses are a total loss. Investigators are looking at some sort of electrical problem as the cause of the fire.

 The state’s Department of Natural Resources may soon have to explain to a judge why there isn’t a wolf hunt in Wisconsin this year. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed a lawsuit in Jefferson County yesterday challenging DNR’s lack of action. WILL says state law is clear, there will be a wolf hunt in Wisconsin if the gray wolf was ever delisted from the Endangered Species Act. That happened last month. WILL’s lawsuit says DNR is ignoring state law to uphold the unwritten political

Top Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol are telling Governor Tony Evers what they don’t want to see in his next budget proposal. State Rep. Mark Born and state Senator Howard Marklein yesterday wrote a letter to the governor warning him about a ‘GroundhogDay’ budget. The two will write the budget for the legislature, and said the governor shouldn’t bother with new taxes or non-fiscal policy initiatives. Born and Marklein say Wisconsin is in pretty good financial shape thanks to Republican management, and they intend

Wisconsin’s rape shield law is about to be tested. The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to a 2016 rape case out of River Falls. The rape shield law was created to make sure lawyers couldn’t tarnish a woman for her sexual past. The case before the court asks whether the law also bans evidence about a victim’s lack of sexual experience. That was one of the key points in convicting then 26-year-old Ryan Mulhern of one count of second-degree

It has taken nearly two years, but some former Shopko employees will soon see severance checks.  A lawsuit against the department store chain was settled for more than three-million-dollars.  That will be shared in the coming weeks by hundreds of workers after lawyers’ fees and expenses are paid.  The lawsuit was filed in May of 2019 on behalf of employees owed severance pay as the chain filed for bankruptcy and then ceased operations a month later.