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It’s almost here… Perhaps you are getting the plate of cookies and cold milk ready for Santa..a carrot or two ready for the reindeer and those hooves you might hear “click, click, click” tonight… Christmas is upon us again, which has many saying “How did this year go so fast?!”” For this week’s Friday Feel Good we try to slow it down a bit and revisit the magic that comes along with the season when you see it through the

I-94 is open after yesterday’s 50-car pile-up in which no one was killed or seriously hurt. The Highway Patrol says there were only minor injuries in the massive wreck near Black River Falls yesterday. Investigators are blaming icy roads for the chain-reaction-crash that closed I-94 for hours. At least one semi-truck and two cars burned in the crash. Crews were able to open a single lane on both sides of the interstate by about 8:30 last night.

Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter has been found guilty of manslaughter for killing an unarmed man during a traffic stop back in April.  Potter appeared emotionless as the verdict was read yesterday afternoon. She always maintained she shot Daunte Wright by accident when he resisted arrest, mistaking her service weapon for her Taser.  She faces over 20 years behind bars.  She will remain in custody until she is sentenced in mid-February.  Following yesterday’s decision, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison

A Fond du Lac mom is looking at 40-plus years in prison for the death of her daughter. A judge in Fond du Lac found Shauntina Fuller-Pankey guilty of reckless homicide yesterday. Investigators say she smashed her baby in the head in 2018. The case lingered for years, in part prosecutors say, because of poor work by a former Fond du Lac police detective. The D.A.’s office says that detective made the case much more difficult to prove. Fuller-Pankey is

Wisconsin’s tornado from last week’s windstorm is now up to eight. The National Weather Service in Minneapolis yesterday confirmed that two more tornadoes touched down in western Wisconsin last Wednesday. Both of the newly confirmed tornadoes are rated EF-1. One was in Winona County, the other was confirmed near Greenwood in Clark County. Forecasters say the storms did plenty of damage, but there are no reports of any serious injuries.

Waukesha is getting ready to move the city’s makeshift memorial to the Christmas Parade victims. The mayor’s office yesterday said crews will remove the flowers, teddy bears, and signs that are currently in Veterans Park by next Wednesday. The idea is to eventually build a new, permanent memorial. The items will be housed with the county’s historical society. Six people died and more than 50 others were injured in that attack last month

The back and forth between the state’s special election investigator and a western Wisconsin Republican lawmaker is not ending. Former Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman told a crowd at the Chippewa County Republican Party this week that state Senator Kathy Bernier should resign. Bernier has been critical of Gableman’s election, and last week she said he was ‘jazzing-up’ people who don’t know what they’re talking about. Gableman said if Bernier is afraid of her constituents, then perhaps she should resign. Gableman said

Wisconsin is ending the week with fewer people in the hospital with the coronavirus. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said 16-hundred people are in the hospital with the virus. That number hovered above 15 hundred all week. The Hospital Association says just over 400 people are in ICUs across the state.

The holidays just got a lot brighter for one Eau Claire veteran. The crew at Green Oasis landscaping donated decorations, and the installation, to Vietnam veteran Tom McMahon. He says he was as surprised as anyone when he saw his house decorated for Christmas. McMahon’s son-in-law nominated him this year because McMahon can’t put the lights up himself. The crew at Green Oasis says the lights are a gift you can’t wrap.

This morning a weather event came through the area dropping freezing rain, which caused icy roadway conditions along the I-94 corridor from Menomonie to Black River Falls. As a result, emergency services responded to multiple crashes, run-offs and jack-knifed semi units Around 5:45am on I-94 at mile marker 96 the State Patrol and several emergency agencies responded to a multiple vehicle crash. Upon arrival a semi unit was in the median on fire with two passenger vehicles underneath. Several secondary