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We’re just now seeing the heroics of a Dunn County deputy and a Boyceville police officer. The two rescued two people who were trapped inside a burning car after a wreck on Monday. The crash happened near Hay River Township. Body camera footage shows the officer and the deputy pull the two people from the wreckage. Both had to be airlifted to a local hospital for treatment of serious injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation.

Kevin Zeitler, Joe Schobert, and Derek Watt are going to help those involved in the deadly Waukesha parade.  The NFL players and southeastern Wisconsin natives are taking part in an online fundraiser paying for medical expenses and funeral costs.  The fund was set up by the United Way and Waukesha County Community Foundation.  Six died and dozens more were hurt when someone drove into the parade last Sunday.

The inventor of the “Lambeau Leap” is a semi-finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.  Former Packers safety LeRoy Butler was named as a modern-era player semifinalist today.  He was a finalist last year.  Butler is in the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and was on the NFL 1990s All-Decade Team.

A Beloit police officer who died from the coronavirus is getting another honor. Governor Tony Evers yesterday ordered flags across the state lowered to honor Officer Dan Daly. He died last week after a battle with the virus. Daly had been with the Beloit Police Department since 1994. He leaves behind a wife and two children.

Dane County will not be ending its mask order at the end of the month after all. Public Health Madison and Dane County yesterday extended the county’s mask requirement until January 3rd. Originally, the plan was to allow the mask mandate to expire this month. PHMDC director Janel Heinrich says the specter of holiday travel has them extending the mask requirement past the New Year’s weekend. The new order is a little less strict. PHMDC says people can take their

The death toll from Sunday’s massacre at the Waukesha Christmas Parade is now up to six. Eight-year-old Jackson Sparks died yesterday. He was hit during the parade. Sparks’ family says his 12-year-old brother Tucker was also hurt, he suffered a fractured skull. The eight-year-old is the youngest of the now six victims of the parade massacre. There is a verified GoFundMe page raising money to offset his medical bills. The list of charges against Waukesha parade suspect Darrell Brooks is

The tragedy in Waukesha has one Wisconsin lawmaker looking to change the states’ constitution to help keep some criminals in jail. State Representative Cindi Duchow says her constitutional amendment would remove the restrictions that judges currently face when setting bail. The constitution mandates that every suspect in Wisconsin is eligible for bail, and it stops judges from considering the dangerousness or violence of a defendant when setting that bail amount. Waukesha’s parade suspect, Darrell Brooks, was released on a thousand-dollars bail following a domestic

Water bills in Eau Claire are likely going-up under the city’s new ‘simplified’ rate hike plan. The city council last night agreed to a plan that will make it easier to raise water rates. City Finance Director Jay Winzenz says there aren’t any plans to raise rates now, and no one is guessing just how much water bills may go-up. The hope from the city is to use small rate increases to keep-up with inflation.

Fall Creek school leaders want the mask mandate lawsuit they’re facing to be dismissed. The school is being sued by a local mom, and the political activist owner of the Minocqua Brewing Company to force all schools in Wisconsin to order their kids to mask-up. Fall Creek has asked a judge to toss the case because the case doesn’t provide any actual factual details about wearing masks, or the mom’s claim that her child caught the coronavirus because of unmasked kids in

Nearly a million people in Wisconsin have gotten their coronavirus booster. The state’s Department of Health Services reported its booster dose-count for the first time yesterday. DHS says more than 915 thousand people have gotten the extra dose of the Moderna, Pfizer, or Johnson & Johnson shot. Overall, three-point-four million people in the state, about 58 percent, have gotten at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine. CLICK FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.