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Today until 3 p.m. the restroom facilities at exit 34 on U.S. Highway-53 in Barron County are closed for maintenance. Parking and vending are still available with the addition of portable toilets there. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says the rest area will reopen today and the same will happen at rest area 33 in New Auburn along Highway-53 tomorrow.

The suspect in three murders in Oregon is in custody in Milwaukee. Police say Oen Evan Nicholson surrendered to Milwaukee Police yesterday. He is wanted in connection to his father’s death in Oregon, as well as two more killings in that state. No one is talking about a motive for any of the killings. Nicholason will remain in custody in Milwaukee until a judge orders him returned to Oregon, but there’s no word just when that will be. Brad Ford

The fire at Advanced Laser in Chippewa Falls comes with a one-and-a-half-million-dollar price tag. Fire crews put out the fire at Advanced Laser Saturday morning. No one was hurt, but crews say the laser that the company uses to cut metal is a total loss. That laser makes-up pretty much all of the cost of the damage in the fire.

 Milwaukee’s most recent weekend shooting tally stands at 14 people wounded in 11 separate shootings. CBS 58 counted-up the shootings from early Saturday morning til late last night. The tally includes two double shootings, and what police are saying was a self-inflicted shooting on Water Street. No one died in any of the shootings. Milwaukee Police say they made just one arrest in the 11 shootings over the weekend.

A longtime lawyer at the state’s Department of Administration is leading the investigation into Eau Claire County’s district attorney. Governor Evers on Friday named William Ramsey to oversee the case against D.A. Gary King. A number of people in the D.A.’s office say King harassed them, was drunk on the job, inappropriate, and made their work for the county much more difficult. The governor’s commissioner will hold a hearing into the claims. Appointing a commissioner is the first step towards

Fewer kids in Wisconsin are going to have a choice of where to go to school. Governor Tony Evers on Friday vetoed a plan that would expand the number of kids who qualify for the state’s school voucher program. The expansion added kids from families who make up to three-times the federal poverty level, which comes to just under 80-thousand-dollars for a family of four. Governor Evers says he doesn’t want to take money away from traditional public schools.

The first look at Wisconsin’s latest coronavirus vaccine numbers is on the low side. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said doctors and nurses handed-out just over 49-thousand doses of the vaccine last week. If that number holds, it would be half as many doses as the week before. DHS says 49-percent of people in the state have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

 Community members in Madison celebrate the first official Juneteenth national holiday.  Revelers marched through town yesterday to Penn Park.  There was food to enjoy along with children’s activities and more.  Congress and President Biden acted to make Juneteenth a national holiday for the first time this year.  The holiday recognizes when the last group of African American slaves living in Galveston found out on June 19, 1865 that the Confederacy had surrendered in April and that they had been set

Hello. Welcome to your weekend. On Saturday mornings we like to start the day in a lighter way, with a “scroll down memory lane.” It’s just a little peek back at some of the big events that happened on this date in the pages of history. So, grab your favorite morning sippin’ drink and lets see what we can learn about the past before we head into our future. Today is Saturday, June 19th, the 170th day of the year. 

On this Father’s Day weekend, a national financial website is ranking Wisconsin among the nation’s top ten states for working dads.  Jill Gonzalez with Wallet Hub says the study ranks states based on 23 factors. Gonzalez says some of the criteria include length of the work day, child care costs and social well-being. Jill Gonzalez with Wallet Hub says the study is based on multiple factors.