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Check those Powerball tickets.  At least two people will be waking up as mega millionaires after last night’s drawing.  Tickets sold in California and Wisconsin matched all six numbers for the seventh largest jackpot of 632-million dollars.  There were also more than a dozen winners of smaller prizes including two-million dollars winners in Florida and Georgia and one-million dollars winners in nine states.  The grand prize now resets to 20-million for Saturday. The numbers are: 06 14 25 33 46 17*

Prosecutors in Chandler Halderson’s case say he went door-to-door asking about security camera footage of his parents disappearance.  Jurors yesterday heard from neighbors who say Halderson came to them and asked about any video of his house in the days after his parents went missing.  Investigators say Halderson had already killed his mom and dad by that time.  Prosecutors played some of the video from those security cameras, and it simply showed Halderson’s parents’ cars coming and going from the

A southern Wisconsin man accused of killing his grandmother is avoiding prison due to mental illness.  Jamie Beggs of Brodhead pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree intentional homicide, but was found not guilty because a doctor’s report found he suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.  A criminal complaint says Beggs admitted to strangling his grandmother to death last June to save her soul, saying he considered himself a martyr.  He’ll be committed under the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and will have a sentence hearing

A federal judge in Madison is not going to stop the Air Force from sending new fighter jets to the city on environmental grounds.  The judge yesterday tossed a lawsuit from the group Safe Skies Clean Water that challenged the environmental review for the new F-35 jets coming to Truax Field.  The group said the environmental studies from the National Guard are not thorough enough.  The judge disagreed.  Safe Skies Clean Water can still appeal the case.

The crowd at Eau Claire’s warming shelter is growing. The shelter’s Tom Wirth says with temperatures falling this week, more people are looking for a place to go to get warm. The shelter opened-up to fill a gap for Eau Claire’s homeless. Wirth says they are helping, but said the shelter is just a temporary solution. He wants to find a more permanent solution for the city’s homeless needs.

Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalizations have crossed a threshold. The state’s Hospital Association says just over two thousand people are now in the hospital with the virus. That’s up nearly 300 hundred people from just a week ago. There are over 460 in the ICU with the virus. The Hospital Association does not track how many people are in the hospital with the virus, as opposed to those who are hospitalized because of it.

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Senate says there need to be changes at the Wisconsin Elections Commission, but he’s not ready to get rid of it all together. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu yesterday said he’s not ready to ‘blow-up’ the agency that manages elections in the state. Some Republican lawmakers are ready to get rid of WEC. They say election managers in the state allowed for the opportunity for fraud in the 2020 election, and say election officials have refused to answer

The Dancing Grannies will be a part of Milwaukee’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The Grannies made the announcement on Facebook yesterday. The St. Patty’s Parade will be the first parade where the Grannies are set to dance since Waukesha’s Christmas Parade in November. Four members of the Dancing Grannies died when a driver plowed through the parade crowd.

A small Wisconsin town is honoring Betty White with her own namesake beer.  The Commerce Street Brewery in Mineral Point, in the southwestern part of the state, has had ‘Blonde Betty’ on tap for years.  It was a tradition for customers to buy the late actress and comedian a beer so that if she ever visited, there would be free drinks waiting for her.  The brewery is letting customers keep up the tradition through January and will donate the proceeds to a

A southern Wisconsin man accused of killing his grandmother is avoiding prison due to mental illness.  Jamie Beggs of Brodhead pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree intentional homicide, but was found not guilty because a doctor’s report found he suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.  A criminal complaint says Beggs admitted to strangling his grandmother to death last June to save her soul, saying he considered himself a martyr.  He’ll be committed under the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and will have a sentence hearing