The start of a full, five-day work week begins now!

We started the morning with updates on the New Year's Eve terror attack in New Orleans and the deadly shooting in New Lisbon a week ago. Also, area Culver's restaurants are doing what they can to help the victims of the shooting at the Abundant Life Christian School.

In sports, the Packers lost to the Bears for the first time in forever. The Bucks lost over the weekend, but the Badgers returned from the holiday break with a big win over Iowa. We also took a look at this week's NFL Playoff schedule.

Recapped last night's Golden Globes awards and let you know what's on TV tonight. Plus, a great story about a guy who taught his girlfriend how to ice skate so he could propose to her in NYC at Rockefeller Center.

2nd Floor Sarah joined us to talk about what's going on in our area this week, and we discussed the top five diets for 2025.

We talked about the remaining College Football Playoffs bowl games and checked in on Alexander Ovechkin's chase of Wayne Gretzky's all-time NHL goals record. And ICYMI, the US won it's second straight hockey World Juniors championship over the weekend!

What's the proper etiquette if you win big money on a lottery ticket you got as a Christmas gift?

Did you see the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader who got beaned by a football on a kickoff yesterday?

And in today's edition of "Bad News with Happy Music", we had stories about a self-driving car that had a glitch and kept driving in circles, an officer in Zambia who got drunk & released a bunch of prisoners so they could celebrate New Year's Eve, a #FloridaMan who stabbed his sister in the face after an argument about spilled milk, and a guy who was "The DUI" on NYE.