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“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek says he has been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer.  In a YouTube announcement, the 78-year-old vowed to keep working as he fights the disease.  Despite the low survival statistics for pancreatic cancer, Trebek looked forward to eventually overcoming the disease.  He even made light of the situation, saying he needs to beat it because his contract requires him to host the game show for another three years.  Trebek has hosted “Jeopardy!” since 1984. 

Governor Evers wants to see expanding business at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison.  The governor announced a 30-million-dollar investment towards the 90-million-dollar expansion.  Officials expect the improvements will encourage more business and industry to bring their events to the state.  The expansion partnership is expected to create nearly 650 new jobs, but the project will take several years to complete. 

Wisconsin ranks in the middle of the pack when it comes to distracted driving deaths in the country.  A recent survey by personal finance website ValuePenguin-dot-com, shows Wisconsin ranks 30th among the 50 states and the District of Columbia.  The criteria of the survey included distracted driving laws in the state and the millions of miles driven.  Wisconsin’s rate is about five-times lower than Tennessee, which ranks first in distracted drivers deaths. 

Western Wisconsin’s Democratic congressman wants more incentives to get the state to add more people to government healthcare rolls.  Congressman Ron Kind yesterday announced a plan to sweeten the pot for Wisconsin and other states to expand Medicaid.  Kind says 80-thousand people could be added to the state’s healthcare plan.  Republican lawmakers in Madison say expanding Medicaid will cost taxpayers in the state more than a half-billion dollars.  

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is defending the big paychecks that many of his top aides are getting.  The governor told reporters that he wants the best people in his administration, and that you have to pay more to get the best.  There are reports that show Evers’ picks to head state agencies are making substantially more than former Governor Walker’s picks to do the same jobs. 

The man accused of vandalizing a Clark County Catholic church is also accused of joining a cult beforehand.  Officers say a witness told them Seth Meier admitted to last Friday’s vandalization and that he was talking in a demonic voice.  Deputies say Meier made comments to them about not caring about what he had done.  He’s charged with burglary of a building and criminal damage to religious property.

A West Salem man has serious injuries after a bar fight in Monroe County.  Police were called to the Rite Spot Tavern early Sunday morning on report of an unconscious man.  Deputies say there was a fight and Joshua Orrico is accused of hitting the victim and continuing to assault him after he fell to the ground.  Orrico is facing three charges related to the incident and has been released on bond. 

An elderly man is safe after a passerby helped him out of his burning house.  Firefighters say 77-year-old John Hase was the only person home when his house caught fire on County Road Y just off of Highway 25 yesterday afternoon.  The passerby was able to get him out of the house before firefighters could get there and they were both taken to the hospital as a precaution.  The house is being considered a total loss.

Firearms and other weapons will now be allowed at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in Chippewa Falls.  The final reading of an ordinance allowing guns was approved without objections last night.  The executive director of the fair started the push for guns at the grounds because of this year’s Wisconsin Game Fest which will include a youth shooting contest.

The Altoona Police Department has found the family a lost triangle American flag display belongs to.  Police found the display behind the seat of a pickup truck at a junkyard in Racine yesterday and immediately began searching for its owners.  By last night the police department said it had made contact with the family and was in the process of getting the display returned.