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Wisconsin can close the books on nine environmental lawsuits. The legislature’s Joint Finance Commission yesterday agreed to settle all nine cases. The payouts are not large, they total just 378 thousand-dollars. The cases were brought against farms, a waste solutions company, and the city of Elkhart. State law requires the legislature to okay any settlement of any lawsuit brought by the state attorney general’s office.

Today could be the day for Milwaukee to finalize its bid for the Republican National Convention. The city council could vote on the contract with RNC planners today. Though no one is sure what will pass. Several aldermen want a six million-dollar payment to host the convention, others don’t necessarily support the Republican Party. Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson says the six million-dollar demand is a ‘poison pill’ and a ‘non-starter’ with him. Milwaukee has until the end of the week

In remembrance of Memorial Day, members of the University of Wisconsin-Stout Veterans Club supported the Dunn County Veterans Service Office by placing U.S. flags at gravesites in five area cemeteries during the holiday weekend, honoring 108 county veterans. Veterans Club members placed flags at Falls City, Forest Center, Iron Creek, Spring Brook and St. John’s cemeteries. We are grateful for remembrances like this that honor the service and sacrifices of our Dunn County veterans.” -UW-Stout Veteran Services Coordinator Chris Engen “The Dunn

 An east Madison home has thousands of dollars worth of damage after a fire caused by coals from a grill.  The Madison Fire Department says firefighters were called to a home in the 700 block of Bewick Drive late Saturday night where they found a trash can on fire.  The fire department says someone put burning coals from a grill in the trash can, causing the fire.  The fire did about 25-hundred dollars worth of damage to the home.

Madison is named one of the best cities in the country to raise a family in.  That’s according to WalletHub, which ranks Madison ninth out of the country’s 182 largest cities.  WalletHub says it used dozens of metrics to make its rankings including cost of housing, quality of schools, and quality of healthcare systems.  Madison’s best category is affordibility, where it ranks fourth.  WalletHub says the best city to raise a family in is Fremont, California.

Chippewa County Crime Stoppers is pleased to announce it has received a donation of $2,500 from the Northwestern Bank. These funds will be used to support start-up operations for the newly formed Chippewa County Crime Stoppers. Crime Stoppers is a Nationwide program which has been very effective in Wisconsin communities. The program provides the efforts of the public, law enforcement and the media in a coordinated effort to fight crime. Crime Stoppers programs provide anonymity to those reporting and rewards

Erraactc driving lead to the arrest of a Minnesota man. It was at approximately 2:26 pm, Monday May 30th when the Wisconsin State Patrol took multiple reports of a vehicle traveling westbound on I-94 near Wilson, that was swerving all over the road and traveling on the shoulder. A Trooper was able to locate the vehicle, illegally parked partially in the roadway of the I-94 exit 16 off ramp. A subsequent investigation including standardized field sobriety test was conducted. The

There was a lot of remembering in our state and across the country yesterday. Here in Wisconsin, Waukesha held its Memorial Day Parade to remember the servicemen and servicewomen who gave their lives for this country, but the entire community remembered the people killed and injured last November. The Memorial Day Parade was Waukesha’s first parade since the Christmas Parade where police say a suspect sped through the crowd, killing six and injuring 60. Yesterday’s parade went off without a

We now know who died in last week’s small plane crash in Wauwatosa. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office yesterday said 18-year-old Daniel Perelman died Saturday. He was seriously injured in that crash last Thursday. Investigators say Perelman reported engine trouble after a touch-and-go landing at Timmerman Airport. The FAA and NTSB have not yet said just what caused that engine trouble.

Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalization numbers continue to inch-up. The state’s Hospital Association on Friday said 372 people are hospitalized with the virus across the state, including 48 in the ICU. At the beginning of May, the Hospital Association says there were 245 people hospitalized with the virus. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.