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A gold band can go through quite an adventure during a marriage even if it stays on a finger the entire time! For this week’s Friday Feel Good story, a gold band takes us on a trip around the country. CLICK BELOW TO HEAR THE STORY WITH Morgan McCarthy: There is a World War Two vet in Fort Lauderdale named Donald Dennis recently got his wedding ring back five years after he lost it at a grocery store in Minnesota. 

Plans are moving forward for a new housing development in Altoona. The City Plan Commission voted to approve a first draft of the subdivision set to go up near Lake Road and Moonlight Bay Drive. The plan calls for 36-new single-family townhomes. The final plans are set to be approved in mid-March. 

The University of Wisconsin athletics department is pausing all team activities on the women’s volleyball team because of positive COVID cases among the players. In a news release, the school says they’ll hold off for at least 14 days until cases clear.  Upcoming matches against the University of Nebraska and the University of Iowa have been postponed.

It is good news for Cornell’s wounded firefighter. The city’s fire chief says firefighter Justin Fredrickson is improving after his latest surgery. Fredrickson was rushed to the hospital last Friday after a gun went off while he was fighting a fire, and the bullet hit him in the stomach. Fredrickson has been through three surgeries, there’s no word when he may go home. PHOTO CREDIT: WEAU 13 NEWS

The woman already in prison for stealing from a local animal shelter is looking at more time for stealing from the government. Nicolle Wilson this week pleaded no contest to charges that she cashed-in on fake Paycheck Protection loans. Wilson is already serving five years for stealing 71-thousand dollars from the Eau Claire County Humane Association. No one is saying just how much she got in her PPP scam.

A Milwaukee judge is not going to allow prosecutors to charge the teenager accused of shooting eight people at the Mayfair Mall as an adult. Judge Brittany Grayson yesterday ruled that the 15-year-old’s case should remain in juvenile court. That means the teen could be released in a matter of months. Milwaukee County prosecutors argued that the teen needs to face real punishment for the shooting back in November. The teen’s lawyers say he’s doing well in a juvenile facility

Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources is not happy with the state’s first wolf hunt. DNR wildlife director Eric Lobner yesterday said he wishes he would have closed the season sooner. Hunters and trappers in the state bagged 216 gray wolves in just three days. DNR’s goal was just 120. Lobner says they ‘could’ve and should’ve’ closed the hunt before Wednesday. Hunters were supposed to have seven days to harvest wolves, but they were so quick to hit their quota that

Wisconsin’s governor is taking the credit for an overhaul at the state’s unemployment office that passed nearly unanimously though the state legislature. Governor Tony Evers yesterday signed the law that will update the computers at the Department of Workforce Development. He said it was his special session that pushed lawmakers to act. But we will show you different sides so you can decide, the Republicans who control the state legislature say the governor could have acted on his own months

Not singing the national anthem before a Brewers or Badgers game would be a crime if state Senator Patrick Testin gets his way. Testin yesterday introduced a plan that would require the national anthem be played or sung at any venue built with taxpayer dollars. That includes almost every professional stadium in Wisconsin as well as college and high school fields. Testin says the national anthem reminds us of what we have in common and is a tradition that dates back over