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The Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing plans a flyover in honor of healthcare workers and first responders. The event will happen May 12th in the skies over several communities including Madison, Baraboo, Reedsburg, Tomah and others.  Four F-16s will execute the flyover as part an ongoing nationwide campaign called Operation American Resolve.  The Department of Military Affairs has the details including a complete list of flyover locations HERE.

With nothing in our world looking quite the same as we are used to, this week’s Friday Feel Good story reminds us that the role of mothers remain as important as ever-and looks the same as it always has-full of love. A Connecticut teacher has stepped up to be more than just a teacher, and care for a student’s newborn brother for a month while the student, and her family recover from COVID-19.  Here’s the teacher explaining why she did

 The cost for regular gas in Wisconsin is up nearly 30-cents-a-gallon compared to a week ago.  Triple-A says the average price statewide is a-dollar-66 today.  The national average is one-82.  Drivers in Appleton are paying 35-cents more at a-dollar-57-a-gallon, while the price at the pump is one-67 in Eau Claire, a-dollar-76 in Racine, one-74 in Milwaukee and a-dollar-61 in Madison.

Local health departments are hosting free COVID-19 testing this weekend. Testing sites are available today and tomorrow for Pierce and Saint Croix Counties. Testing is at Western Wisconsin Health in Baldwin today (Friday, May 8th) from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and tomorrow (Saturday, May 9th) at the Saint Croix Valley Business Innovation Center in River Falls from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Testing for Dunn and Eau Claire Counties is also happening Sunday and Monday at Prevea Health on Clairemont Avenue

An Eau Claire woman is found guilty of stealing from an Eau Claire animal shelter. Court records show Nicolle Wilson pleaded no contest to two counts of theft and one count of fraud. A criminal complaint shows Wilson was the bookkeeper for the humane society. She was accused of trying to cash a 60-thousand-dollar check. 

A woman was arrested for her 7th OWI. It was just after 8 on Thursday evening when 49 year old Tracie Lee Masuca, from Shell Lake, was arrested after a trooper stopped to assist adisabled vehicle on Interstate 94 in Jackson County. The driver of the vehicle was identified as Tracie Lee Masuca and after an investigation, including standardized field sobriety tests, Masuca was arrested for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence 7th offense.

Prosecutors in Missouri want the death penalty for the man who they say killed two Wisconsin brothers. Joey Nelson is facing murder charges for the deaths of Nick and Justin Diemel. The brothers from Shawano disappeared last summer after traveling to Missouri to collect a debt from Nelson. Nelson has asked for a new judge in his case, and to have his trial moved.

A lot more people are testing negative for the coronavirus in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services said over five-thousand people tested negative for the virus yesterday. That’s the largest single day total since the state started testing people. By comparison, 314 people tested positive. Wisconsin’s negative-test-totals have been inching-up since Sunday. CLICK HERE FOR LOCAL TESTING SITE INFORMATION

Republicans in the Chippewa Valley say it’s not reasonable to keep Chippewa Falls closed down because people in Milwaukee are testing positive for the coronavirus. A group of Republican lawmakers yesterday got together in Chippewa Falls to push for a regional reopening of Wisconsin. State Representative Rob Summerfield says businesses, farmers, and manufacturing plants need to get back to work. Summerfield says reopening the state will be gradual, but he says lawmakers need to start working on it now.

More workers at the UW Eau Claire are being sent home. Chancellor Jim Schmidt yesterday sent furlough notices to 88 more employees. That brings the total number of UW Eau Claire workers sent home to 222. Schmidt says people who have seen their workload decrease or people who can’t work from home are the ones being furloughed. Schmidt says the coronavirus outbreak will cost UW Eau Claire at least ten million-dollars this year.