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If you bought a Powerball ticket in Seymour for the Wednesday, September 29, drawing, you could be a millionaire. A $1 million ticket was sold yesterday at the Seymour BP, 234 N. Main St. The ticket matched all five numbers – 2-7-11-17-32 but not the Powerball number of 11. The jackpot is now estimated at $620 million for the Saturday, October 2, drawing. Seymour BP is not unfamiliar with million-dollar tickets. The Lottery retailer sold a $1 million top prize Million Fortune scratch ticket in

Buffalo County Department of Health & Human Services is notifying the public of the potential forCOVID-19 exposure at local events September 24 th and 25th. A laboratory confirmed case of COVID-19 was present at these events during their infectious period. Due to the length of time and the large number of people in attendance, we are unable to confidently determine all close contacts. Anyone who was at the events identified below during the dates and times listed should be considered

The first Afghan refugees from Fort McCoy will arrive in Wausau in late December. The State Department yesterday said in all, 80 Afghans will resettle in Wausau between December and next September. A new group, New Beginnings, will help with the transition. There’s no word on just where the refugees will live or what jobs they will work. New Beginnings says there will be a meeting next week to provide Wausau with a few more answers. CLICK HERE FOR MORE

Investigators in Green Bay say they have some leads about the body found near UW-Green Bay’s campus on Tuesday, but they’re not sharing them. Police found a body just after midnight Tuesday on the UWGB campus. Officers are treating the case as a homicide. A man in his 20s or 30s was found dead in a burning grassfire near UW-Green Bay’s Arboretum. Investigators immediately called his death suspicious.

Milwaukee Alderwoman Chantia Lewis said nothing as she walked out of court yesterday. Lewis was in court for her first appearance on embezzlement charges. Prosecutors say she bilked the city out of 20- thousand-dollars by charging the city for trips she paid for with campaign money. Lewis has been ordered to stay away from a long list of people involved in the case. The charges come as Lewis is in the early stages of running for U.S. Senate as a

It could soon be easier for parents to know how much their kids’ school is spending and what they are spending that money on. Both the state Senate and Assembly on Tuesday approved a proposal that would create a single, statewide website that tracks school spending. Republican state Senator Alberta Darling says education is Wisconsin’s single-largest expense, and tracking where that money goes is important. Reform groups say tracking school spending is the first step in holding schools accountable for how

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly says he has faith that the investigation into the November 2020 election will find there were some ‘issues’ with voting in the state. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Tuesday said he’s ‘supremely confident’ in former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Mike Gableman’s probe. Vos said the point of Gableman’s investigation is to find out what went wrong last year and make changes so people in Wisconsin can have faith in elections going forward. Vos said no one is looking to

A new survey says the vast majority of kids in Eau Claire schools say they’re unhappy in school and don’t think other kids like them. The city’s school board talked about the survey results earlier this week. The survey says 80-percent of kids are not happy at school and 70-percent said they don’t get along with other kids, or think kids don’t like each other. Another nearly 80-percent of kids said they don’t feel socially accepted or feel like they’re

Eau Claire Police are going to make sure drivers stop for people in crosswalks for the next little while. The city’s police department yesterday said it’s gotten complaints about drivers not letting people cross the street. Officers were at Farwell and State streets yesterday. Police say not stopping for pedestrians could earn you a 175-dollar ticket.

Add UW-Stout to the list of UW campuses with 70-percent of its students vaccinated. The school yesterday said Stout is the latest to qualify under the 70 for 70 plan. That plan offers 70, seven-thousand-dollar scholarships to the UW’s smaller campuses. Stout joins UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-Milwaukee, UW Oshkosh, and UW-Whitewater in hitting the 70-percent-mark and qualifying for the scholarships. Wisconsin’s coronavirus vaccination numbers dropped last week. The state’s Department of Health Services says doctors and nurses handed-out just