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We might be used to hearing the crack of the bat this time of year, but for this week’s Friday Feel Good we head inside for the squeak of the sneakers.  There was a basketball game underway when a ref dropped to the floor in need of medical attention. That’s when a player on the team made an all-star play.  Now, that Ohio basketball player is being praised for stopping mid-game and performing lifesaving CPR while waiting for an ambulance. 

The Supreme Court is overturning Roe v. Wade, the decades-old decision which legalized abortion nationwide.  It did so while considering a case out of Mississippi where the state attempted to ban abortion after 15 weeks.  Conservative Justice Samuel Alito delivered the majority opinion.  The actual opinion came weeks after Politico published a leaked draft opinion indicating justices were indeed ready to strike down Roe.NBC News reporter Pete Williams says this decision means one thing. Williams going on to say: Wisconsin’s

There is a warning for anyone who owns a newer Kia or Hyundai in Madison. Police more than half of the cars stolen in Madison this year are either Kias or Hyundais. As of right now, that’s 24 stolen Kias or Hyundais. Police say the cars are easy to steal by breaking a window, then using something as simple as a usb cord to start them. This is not something that’s unique to Madison. Police in Milwaukee have been dealing

It’s 15 years in prison in a murder case in Barron County. A judge yesterday sentenced 22-year-old Clayton Lauritsen to a decade-and-a-half for a December 2020 shooting. Police say Lauritsen  shot and killed a man who was chasing his roommate. Lauritsen pleaded guilty earlier this year.

A sex offender who was on the run from Pepin County was apprehended in Eau Claire. On Thursday, June 23rd ,the Pepin County Sheriff’s Office reported that registered sex offender, Allen D. Owens, had tampered with his GPS monitoring bracelet and absconded. Owens had just been released from prison on June 7th , 2022. In the evening hours of June 23rd , Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office Deputies developed information that Owens may have checked into the Days Inn Motel,

Steven Avery has changed prisons. The state’s Department of Corrections this week said Avery has been moved to the medium security facility at Fox Lake. He was at the maximum security prison in Waupun. Avery is part of the Netflix series Making a Murderer and currently serving a life sentence for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. He’s maintained his innocence in the case. His lawyer said back in April that they plan to file a new appeal soon.

Three doctors will have to sign-off before Morgan Geyser can leave a state mental hospital. A judge yesterday ordered three mental health exams for Geyser, who has been at the hospital since she was sentenced for her role in the Slender Man stabbings back in 2014. Geyser has been getting treatment for her schizophrenia. The other girl in the case, Anissa Weier, was freed from a state mental hospital last year. Geyser is due back in court in August.

Wisconsin’s governor expects a challenge to the state’s abortion law when or if Roe v. Wade is struck down. Governor Evers told reporters in Oshkosh yesterday that he believes Attorney General Josh Kaul will go to court to try and keep abortion legal in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is one of about two dozen states where abortion will become illegal if Roe goes away. That could happen any day now. The governor says they will do ‘whatever we can’ to try and stop abortion from

Wisconsin’s two U.S. Senators split their votes on the gun control package on Capitol Hill. Republican Senator Ron Johnson voted against the plan yesterday, while Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin voted for it. Johnson says the plan spends too much money, and he’s worried about what red flag laws will mean for law abiding gun owners. Baldwin says the plan expands background checks and will help protect the victims of domestic violence.

Alliant Energy is keeping its coal-fired power plants after all. The company yesterday said it is delaying the closure of its plants in Sheboygan and Portage online for at least a few more years to ensure a reliable supply of electricity. Power grid operators in the Midwest are  warning about blackouts this summer because of a lack of power. Alliant had hoped to take the plants offline and replace them with green energy projects. The company says it is still