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No one is guessing when everyone across southeast Wisconsin will get their lights back. WE Energies said as of about 2:45 this morning, 105-thousand people were in the dark after yesterday’s storms. A powerful line of thunderstorms cut across Milwaukee and the WOW Counties yesterday evening, uprooting trees and knocking down power lines. There are no reports of any serious injuries. Forecasters are not confirming any tornadoes as of yet either.

 Election Day 2022 will look pretty much like Election Day 2020. Governor Tony Evers yesterday vetoed seven Republican-backed election reform proposals. The governor says the proposed laws made it harder for people to vote. But, Republican Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said the plans made it easier for people to vote and harder for them to cheat. Among the plans the governor vetoed was a proposal to tighten the rules for indefinitely confined voters, to make sure everyone shows voter

Wisconsin’s two U.S. senators voted exactly how you’d expect on the one-trillion-dollar infrastructure plan. Democrat Tammy Baldwin joined every other Democrat in voting for the plan to spend more on roads, bridges, and airports. Republican Ron Johnson joined most of his party members in voting against it. Johnson says the one-trillion-dollar package is simply too large and spends money on too many different things. The package next heads to the U.S. House.

There could still be some flames burning at the old industrial building in downtown Fort Atkinson. The city’s fire chief backed-off the fire yesterday after the flames drained the city’s water supply. Chief Daryl Rausch says his crews had to let the fire burn itself out. No one was injured in the massive fire, but the building is a total loss. The chief says once what’s left of the building is cool enough, investigators will look for a cause.

Green Bay’s Bay Beach Amusement Park says it needs people who can run the rides. The park closed five rides yesterday because it didn’t have enough people to run them. Bay Beach’s Alyssa Smet says a lot of their workers are college kids, and some of those kids are heading back to school. Smet says they hope to find some new ride operators soon, so they can keep the park fully open all the way through the end of the

There’s another push from Wisconsin Democrats to legalize marijuana in the state. Madison state Senator Melissa Agard yesterday introduced her plan that would fully legalize pot in the state. She says legal marijuana would be worth at least 165-million-dollars in taxes. The Republicans who control the state legislature have fought efforts to legalize marijuana for years. They say the benefits do not outweigh the costs that legal pot would bring to the state.

After nearly 25 years a familiar name is hanging up his tie. Democratic Rep. Ron Kind announced there will be no reelection campaign. He won’t run again for Congress. He made the announcement that he’s retiring from his role in the House of Representatives. Rep. Kind released the following statement after making his announcement:  “Representing the people at home has been the honor of my life–but I never intended it to be the honor of my entire life. For 26

On August 10, 2021 at 11:26 am, the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Communications Center received a 911 call reporting multiple people being struck by lightning at the Big Fish Golf Course in the Town of Hayward. Sawyer County Deputies, Sawyer County EMS, Wisconsin State Patrol, LCO Police, LCO Tribal Wardens, Town of Hayward Police and the Hayward Fire Department responded to the call. Responding units assisted four male golfers suffering from injuries received from a nearby lightning strike on the golf

Researchers are demanding that the Food and Drug Administration pull certain sunscreens from store shelves after the presence of a possible carcinogen was found.  Sara Bartlett has the story.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) today announced that Dain A. Peterson, age 30, was arrested on tentative charges of possession of child pornography. The defendant, a Bayfield County deputy sheriff, was arrested by Wisconsin DOJ Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) special agents following an investigation into multiple uploads of child pornography through a messaging application. On the evening of August 9th, DCI agents executed a search warrant at the address where the defendant was residing in Ashland, he was