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Flu season is in full swing in the state of Wisconsin. The State’s Department of Health Services says nearly 460 people have been sent to the hospital with the flu so far this season. Eleven people have died from the flu. DHS says the number of people sent to the hospital is three times higher than normal. Doctors say a flu shot is still your best bet to not get sick this year.

Prosecutors in Eau Claire are moving ahead with charges against a woman who they say stole 35-thousand-dollars from her boss. The D.A. charged Karen Towberman Friday with embezzlement. Investigators say she wrote herself checks over a three-year span. Police say Towberman admitted that she took the money, but she said she needed it to make ends meet. Towberman faces as much as 20 years behind bars if convicted, she’s due back in court next month.

The push to get out the vote has begun in Barron County. The group Barron County Votes is hosting two workshops this month to help get people ready to vote this year. There’s an election in both April and November. Barron County Votes’ Laura Jasper says they don’t care who people vote for, as long as they get out and vote.

Remember the name Charlie Thompson in the sport of curling. Thompson, who is a junior at Eau Claire Memorial High School, is heading to the Junior Olympics in Switzerland. He leaves today for three weeks of trying to bring home the gold. Thompson says he’s been curling since he was a kid, and can’t wait to shine on the world stage.

A group of anti-war protesters are making their views known in a rally at the state capitol.  Yesterday a protest event organized by several groups including the Party for Socialism and Liberation was held as a show of resistance to any further U.S. conflict with Iran.  The anti-war demonstration follows Friday’s U.S. airstrike that killed top Iranian Quds Force commander General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad.  The Trump administration says the drone strike is in response to the New Year’s Eve

Hopefully oyur weekend isn’t being spent on the couch with the flu, but for many people, that’s where they are planted. Healthcare clinicians in Wisconsin are seeing a big jump in the number of flu cases.  The Centers for Disease Control moved the state from low-level activity to high activity in recent days.  Children’s Wisconsin in Milwaukee reported nearly 830 flu cases in December with nearly 50 needing hospitalization.  Last year there were just nine flu cases at the hospital in December.

Veteran game show host Alex Trebek says he’s rehearsed his final goodbye.  But don’t worry fans, he’s not signing off yet.  The 79-year-old has hosted Jeopardy! for more than 35 years.  He’s been fighting pancreatic cancer since last March and says he’ll continue working through his treatments.  Still, he knows the time will come when he can no longer carry on with the show and he’ll be ready.  He says it will be a significant moment for him.  No word

The cost for regular gas in Wisconsin is 16-cents-a-gallon lower than the national average.  Triple-A says the price statewide is two-dollars-and-42-cents today, while it’s two-58 across the country.  Drivers in several cities including Milwaukee, Madison and Janesville are paying an average price of two-38 a gallon.  The highest average price of two-54 is posted in Superior.

Lands End isn’t commenting but a group of Delta Airlines employees is taking the Wisconsin-based company to court.  The employees filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in the Western District of Wisconsin claiming the uniforms provided by Lands End made them sick.  Delta says it’s test found the uniform safe but the employees say their testing found unacceptable high levels of certain chemicals and heavy metals including mercury.  They say employees have suffered breathing difficulties, headaches, hair loss, fatigue, skin rashes, hives and tightness