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If you are looking ahead to the “Ooooh’s” and “Ahhhh’s,” Altoona has you covered. Here is the latest information on the Cinder City Celebration.

Kyle Rittenhouse will release a video game in an effort to fund defamation lawsuits against media outlets.  Rittenhouse was acquitted last year on charges connected to the fatal shootings of two men during a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin in 2020.  The video game is called Kyle Rittenhouse Turkey Shoot.  It will let players shoot “fake news turkeys” as Rittenhouse.  Rittenhouse announced the game on Twitter where he said it’s available to preorder now for about 10 bucks.

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP), in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension and FairShare CSA Coalition, invites Wisconsin farmers to attend multiple field days in the 2022 growing season. These field days will provide information on a variety of production and management techniques, ranging from small-scale weed control practices to mushroom growing, rice cultivation techniques, and utilizing high tunnel production to grow crops that require unique soil or growing conditions. The field

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announced 13 projects have been selected to receive more than $564,000 in Export Expansion Grants. These grants aim to accelerate the growth of Wisconsin dairy, meat, and crop products and are funded through the Wisconsin Initiative for Agricultural Exports (WIAE). Local recipients include The University of Wisconsin-River Falls, River Falls | $49,997 to evaluate the economic impact of increasing export sales in dairy products by 25 percent in Wisconsinand address

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.