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The Eau Claire Children’s Museum has a new exhibit teaching kids how to be safe in the kitchen.  The Let’s Get Cooking Lab allows kids to cook their own healthy snacks and shows them how to be safe with dangerous kitchen elements such as hot surfaces and knives.  Getting a spot in the lab will be difficult though.  Summer cooking programs are already full.  

Kenosha County’s sheriff says the suspect in Racine Police Officer John Hetland’s murder went to jail in Hetland’s handcuffs.  The sheriff announced an arrest in the case yesterday.  No one is naming the suspect yet, and the sheriff wouldn’t say where and how officers arrested them.  Hetland died last week when a masked man tried to rob the bar where he was eating dinner.  Hetland was laid to rest Wednesday. 

Ethan Witscher has a new entry for his resume.  The 14-year-old from Cumberland is this year’s Hoards Dairyman Magazine cow judging junior champion.  Witscher beat out other teens from 48 states to take home the crown.  He says it’s an honor to be recognized.  Witscher’s family has been working with cows for five generations.  He says he wants to be a dairyman as well, after he goes to college.  

Police say there’s no reason to be worried that Wisconsin is ranked high on a national crime tracking website.  The folks at Asecurelife.com rank Wisconsin fifth in the nation when it comes to the number of sex offenders.  The site says Wisconsin has 435 sex offenders for every 100-thousand people in the state.  But,police say that’s not a reflection of an abnormally large number of offenders, rather it shows how well police are doing in catching sex offenders.  

Christian Yelich is really popular.  The Brewers’ star led all National League players in All Star votes this year.  The league last night said Yelich earned a starting spot on this year’s All Star team with more than 930-thousand votes.  He’s the only the Brewer to make the starting lineup, but baseball writers say there should be more Brewers joining him on the full All Star roster. 

Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald was on “THE BILL MICHAELS SHOW” today and spoke about Jayme Closs and her continued recovery. They were live from RICE LAKE  and you likely recognize the name from our own broadcasting of the BILL MICHAELS SHOW here on our popular sports station SPORTS TALK 105.1. If you would like to hear portions of the interview CLICK HERE.

Governor Tony Evers says the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on political redistricting is devastating for our democracy and system of government.  The High Court ruled today that federal courts should have no role in redistricting, leaving it mostly up to state legislatures.  Governor Evers says that solution leads to partisan gerrymandering which hurts people’s right to participate in the Democratic process. 

Happy 60th Anniversary Circus World! On July 1, 1959, a peek into the Big Top opened to the public. Circus World in Baraboo was originally the winter home of the Ringling Brothers Circus from 1884 through 1918. It’s now the world foremost museum of circus history and memorabilia. In the July edition of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Thank You, 72 podcast and radio series, we’re remembering two University of Wisconsin-Madison graduates who helped make Circus World the success it is today: Columbia County

Today is National HIV Testing Day—people nationwide are encouraged to learn their HIV status. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone between the ages of 13 and 64 get tested for HIV at least once as part of routine health care. People with certain risk factors should get tested more often. In Wisconsin 7,123 people were living with HIV in 2017. Almost 1 in 8 people living with HIV are unaware they are infected. Based on