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Three men are facing charges after a year-long drug investigation in Northwest Wisconsin. The Pepin County Sheriff’s Office says 27-year-old Matthew Schumacher of Menomonie, and 32-year-old Anthony Nelson, and 44-year-old Chad Marson of Arkansas were arrested Friday. They’re charged with delivery of meth, and possession of meth and drug paraphernalia. Nelson was also charged with maintaining a drug house. The sheriff’s office says more arrests are likely. 

CVS Pharmacy will soon distribute COVID-19 vaccines to Wisconsin’s long-term care facilities. Through a federal pharmacy partnership, CVS is administering the first doses of the Pfizer vaccine across 12-states this week. Starting the week of December 28th, Wisconsin is slated to begin vaccinations of the initial shot and the booster. CVS expects to finish vaccinations within four-weeks. 

The University of Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team takes on the Nebraska Cornhuskers in their Big-Ten season opener tomorrow night. The number-12 Badgers play the Huskers at the Kohl Center in Madison. The Huskers are four-and-three. Tip-off is at 6 p.m.

Everything is pointing to a House vote today on a 900-billion-dollar coronavirus relief package. The deal congressional leaders announced Sunday night includes another round of payments up to 600-dollars for most Americans and 300-dollars a week for enhanced unemployment benefits. Word from the White House strongly suggests President Trump will sign a coronavirus relief package after it’s approved by Congress.  A White House spokesman said Trump has been pushing for more relief for Americans for months.  

 The giant numerals for “2021” are arriving today in Times Square ahead of the New Year’s Eve celebration that will have no crowds this year due to the pandemic. Jennifer Pulsone reports.

There will be another day of mourning for an Eau Claire Memorial High School freshman who died after being shot last week. Investigators say the teen was shot in the Town of Washington late last week, and the sheriff’s office announced his death on Saturday. Counselors were at the school over the weekend for students who needed someone to talk to. Deputies are not saying just what happened that led up to the shooting.

We will start the week with that peek into public health. On the national level, the coronavirus death toll keeps climbing.  The COVID Tracking Project reports that over 16-hundred Americans died from the respiratory virus on Sunday.  That brings the nation’s death toll to more than 317-thousand people.  There was a slight decline in the number of people hospitalized in the U.S., down to over 113-thousand.  More than 21-thousand of those patients are in intensive care units. Here in our state, however,

It was a virtual graduation for the fall class of 2020 at UW-Eau Claire. The school recorded videos for the 22-hundred students who got their diplomas Saturday. Many of the same students spent part of last year and parts of this fall taking classes online, so an online graduation was not out of the ordinary. UW-LaCrosse held its ‘couch commencement’ on Saturday as well.

The first woman to sit on the Supreme Court in Wisconsin has passed away. Shirley Abrahamson’s family says she died Saturday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 87. Abrahamson served a record 19 years as chief justice on the state’s supreme court,  and she retired last year.

There’s going to be a meeting today about just what Alfonso Morales will do with the Milwaukee Police Department. A judge on Friday reversed the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission’s decision to demote Morales back in August, opening the door to Morales’ return as chief. His lawyer says today’s meeting will decide if Morales will return as the city’s top cop, or if he will stay retired and continue with his lawsuit against Milwaukee. The city’s Fire and Police Commission