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The house from ‘Home Alone’ is available for rent on Airbnb.  The house was made famous by exterior shots in the classic 1990 Christmas film.  The Chicago-area home is listed as a single one-night stay scheduled for December 12th.  The listing is being hosted by ‘Buzz’ actor Devin Ratley, who was the older brother of Culkin’s Kevin McCallister.  The 25-dollar stay will include holiday decorations, booby traps inspired by the film, pizza, a screening of the franchise’s latest film and

Altoona’s former superintendent will learn his fate later today. Dan Peggs is due in federal court to be sentenced in his child pornography case. He pleaded guilty back in August. As part of that deal, prosecutors agreed to drop a slew of other sex charges against him. Peggs is facing a ten year prison sentence.

The lead investigator into last year’s election says it’s clear to him that there’s a cover-up going on among the mayors of Madison and Green Bay. Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman told lawmakers yesterday that the mayors of Madison and Green Bay are refusing to answer any of his questions about the Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life. He said he’s asked a judge in Waukesha to seize evidence from the mayors because they won’t cooperate. Gableman has

Teachers in Oshkosh schools could be getting some mental health days next year. The city’s school board will take-up the idea in February. The proposal would add two mental health days to allow teachers to ‘to decompress and recover from burnout.’ Right now the plan is to take those days from the district’s snow day reserve, and only offer them in the next school year.

It’s the surest sign yet that Afghan refugees are days away from arriving in Wausau. The city’s Chamber of Commerce yesterday asked for donations to help refugee families get on their feet. The Chamber is asking for everything from vacuums to teapots to smart phones and laptops. There is no word just how many Afghans are arriving in Wausau, or when.

Doctors are telling people not to panic over the latest reports that say there are no intensive care rooms in all of western Wisconsin. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said there’s zero availability in the western part of the state, while the state’s Department of Health Services says 96 percent of western Wisconsin ICU beds are full. Dr. Joseph Krien with Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse says that just means hospitals in western Wisconsin can’t accept patients from other parts of the state.

There aren’t a lot of answers about the smell in Spooner’s middle school. Students continue to learn from home as the school tries to figure out what is causing an ‘epoxy-type’ smell. The school closed back on November 10th after students and teachers first reported the smell. Cleaning crews have scrubbed the school, and the district has sent samples to a lab to try and find the source of the smell. Those lab tests are due back next week.

Lawmakers in Madison may do something very soon to change things at the Wisconsin Elections Commission. State Senator Steve Nass yesterday said the legislature’s rule making committee should either force the commission to follow the state’s election laws or stop it from issuing bad advice to local election managers. The Elections Commission met yesterday to push back on an audit that found dozens of times when it didn’t follow the law. Nass says the commission’s response shows that it has no clue

 If you thought you saw a blue fighter jet in Madison earlier this week, you’re not wrong. We’re learning that a Blue Angels jet made an emergency landing at the  Dane County Regional Airport on Tuesday. The airport says there was a hydraulic problem on the jet. No one was hurt, though the plane’s emergency landing did close the airport’s runways for a little while on Tuesday.

President Biden is marking World AIDS Day.  During a White House event, the President said the world is within striking distance of eliminating HIV transmissions.  He noted that roughly 36-million people around the globe have died from AIDS-related illnesses in the past 40 years.  He praised medical advancements that have allowed many AIDS patients to live long lives.