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The University of Wisconsin Veterinary School is the recipient of a 250-thousand-dollar donation.  The Petco Foundation announced over the weekend it’s donation is an honor of seven-year-old golden retriever Scout, who has been treated at the school for cancer.  Scout was featured in a Super Bowl ad yesterday.  He is a part of a national effort to raise funds for pet cancer research.

Today is National Missing Person’s Day.  About 23-hundred people a day are reported missing in the United States.  The Badger State produced one of the most notable stories of 2019 when 13-year-old Jayme Closs was found alive after being held by a kidnapper and murderer for nearly three months.  Wisconsin authorities are looking for three young people missing in the last month including Madison Bounds of Menomonie, Denetta Gray of Beloit and Teahjah Zolliecoffer from Milwaukee.  The 24-hour hotline for the National

It happened Sunday evening just after 8. The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office and Menomonie Fire and Rescue,were dispatched to the 3700 block of 420th St, in the Township of Menomonie for a one-vehicle crash with injuries. The initial crash investigation showed a 4-door sedan was southbound on 420th St approaching a curve. The driver, 19 year old Christopher Becker, was unable to negotiate the curve. The vehicle left the roadway, and struck a group of large trees. Due to significant

About a million-and-a-half dollars from Washington D.C. is coming to western Wisconsin to fight future flooding. Congressman Ron Kind announced that he secured the money last week. The one-point-six-million is headed to La Crosse, Monroe, and Vernon counties to deal with spring flooding there. Specifically, the money will go to the Coon Creek and West Fork Kickapoo watersheds, where floods in 2018 saw six dams either breached or flooded-over.

We will know in a few hours if Wisconsin’s count of possible coronavirus cases will increase again. The State’s Department of Public Health Services on Friday said nine people have been tested so far. That’s up from seven earlier last week. There are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in Wisconsin. In fact, DHS says two people who were tested were confirmed as not having the virus.

Jackson County’s search and rescue dog is being credited for helping to find a person at risk on Saturday night. The dog, Gunner, and his handler helped in the search near Sparta. Authorities in Jackson County and in the city of Sparta are not offering many details about the person Gunner helped find.

A new report says most high school juniors in the state of Wisconsin are not ready for college. The Wisconsin Policy Forum says just 48-percent of high school juniors in the state scored high enough on last year’s ACT to be deemed college-ready. English is the strongest subject for high schoolers who took the test, nearly 50-percent of kids scored high enough to qualify in English. But the numbers drop for math, science, and reading. Somewhere between 29 and 36-percent of kids scored high

Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is going to decide if former Governor Scott Walker’s thousand-year veto can stand. The high court last week agreed to hear a challenge in the case. Governors in Wisconsin have the power to change or erase numbers inside the budget when it comes to spending money. Governor Walker changed the numbers inside the 2017 budget to extend the effective date of a new tax law til 3018 instead of 2018.  Hence the name, the thousand-year veto.