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Marathon County approves putting up to 195-thousand dollars toward attracting new flights to the Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee The board of supervisors says it wants flights to three destinations, Orlando, Florida, southwest Florida, and Phoenix, Arizona.  The board says those locations are all in the top five of a recent study about where people go on vacation.

Altoona’s library is turning the page on another year! If you would like to be a part of celebrating the birthday, you have a chance that shouldn’t be “shelved.”

A lighthouse on the Door Peninsula is added to the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places.  The Wisconsin Historical Society says the Kewaunee Pierhead Lighthouse was added to the register of historic places because of its role in maritime transportation and commerce.  The lighthouse was built as a fog signal building in 1909 and converted into a lighthouse in 1931.

A lost and found box can be full of treasures, but for this week’s Friday Feel Good we unearth a treasure that has stories to tell.  This week’s Friday Feel Good starts in the skies of World War II and lands here on Earth many decades later.  There was a bomber jacket from World War II, that was accidentally left behind at a Washington restaurant in the 1950s. Since then, the person who found it had held tight and been searching for

Previously-owned homes aren’t selling as fast.  Sales dropped by more than seven-percent in February to a rate of just over six-million units.  The chief economist for the National Association of Realtors said the coming jump in mortgage rates will make things “very interesting.” 

The show’s gone across the state, and that means it’s time to store your snowmobiles. State Consumer Protection director Michael Domke says that DATCP has a list of trusted storage facilities. If that is something you are interested in, you can find more info and a list online WITH AN EASY CLICK HERE.

Doctors are blaming a western Wisconsin mom’s death on meth and ‘positional asphyxia.’ The autopsy for Ashley Carlson ruled her death an accident. Carlson went missing in September of last year.  Crews in both Minnesota and Wisconsin searched for her for two months. Eventually, authorities found her remains in Pine County, which is about halfway between the Twin Cities and Duluth. She was 33-years-old and a mother of four children.

The search for a missing UW-La Crosse student has come to a sad end. Searchers say they found 25-year-old Hamud Faal’s body in the Mississippi River yesterday. He’d been missing since February 20th when he was last seen leaving a downtown La Crosse bar. Investigators say they are waiting for an autopsy to determine Faal’s cause of death.

The Green Bay woman accused of killing a man during a day of meth-fueled sex will have to undergo a psychiatric examine. A judge yesterday said there are enough questions about Taylor Schabusiness’ mental competency. She’s the woman accused of chopping a man into pieces after killing him while they were having sex. Police say she didn’t intend to kill the man, but didn’t stop because she liked it. Schabusiness’ lawyer says she has concerns that Schabusiness doesn’t understand her

Chandler Halderson will never leave prison alive. A Dane County judge yesterday sentenced Halderson to life in prison without the possibility of parole for murdering, then butchering his parents. Halderson spoke for the first time since his arrest yesterday, but only asked for lawyers to take a look at his appeal. Halderson had asked the judge to allow him to skip the hearing. Police say Halderson murdered his parents then cut-up their bodies because his web of lies about going