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The race for Congress in western Wisconsin is getting crowded. Jessi Ebben on Friday announced that she is running to replace the current congressman, Ron Kind. Kind is a Democrat and has been in Congress since 1997. Ebben says she is a conservative who supports President Trump’s agenda and wants to get things done for western Wisconsin. Ebben is the latest Republican to take-on Kind. President Trump won his district in 2016, but Kind won re-election two years ago.

Rebecca Kleefisch is making it official, kinda. The former lieutenant governor last week told a crowd at the Republican Women of Southeast Wisconsin’s meeting in Kenosha that she is considering a run for office again. But Kleefisch is not saying which office she has her eye on. Her former boss, Governor Scott Walker, has said in the past that he thinks she’d make a great governor.

One of Wisconsin’s largest family group says lawmakers in Madison are putting adult desires over the needs of children.  Wisconsin Family Action last week blasted lawmakers who want to end Wisconsin’s six-month waiting period after a divorce. Right now, people are banned from getting remarried til six months after their divorce. Wisconsin Family Action’s Julaine Appling says the state needs to put the needs of children ahead of the wants of parents who are getting divorced.

A ground beef recall is underway in nine states, including here.  The USDA says about two-thousand pounds of raw ground beef packaged at Amity Packing in Chicago on January 6th may be tainted with plastic.  The recalled products were shipped to retail stores in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.  The packages being recalled are one pound vacuum-packed packages labeled “Pre 95% LEAN-5% FAT GROUND BEEF.”  They have the lot code 0060 and a use

A missing boy from western Wisconsin is safe and sound after being found in North Dakota. Police in Cooperstown, North Dakota say they found one-year-old Sawyer Jacobs along with his mother and her brother on Saturday. Authorities in Trempealeau County say Jacobs’ mother, 34-year-old Jessica Cleasby kidnapped him and was on her way to Wyoming. Investigators in Wisconsin say Cleasby lost custody of her son due to drug use. There’s no word when Cleasby or little Sawyer will be brought back to Wisconsin. PHOTO CREDIT:

Move over midnight “I DO’s” and round the clock buffet trips where calories don’t count! Those things may still happen in Sin City, but they will no longer stay there. “What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas….” may be leaving the city. Sin City’s famous slogan is reportedly changing to “What happens here, only happens here.”  The update is set to be revealed in a 60-second ad during this Sunday’s broadcast of the Grammy Awards on CBS.  R&R Partners, the

Wisconsin students who struggle with dyslexia could be getting some help soon.  The state senate this week passed it’s first-ever bill directed at addressing the condition.  If the governor gives his approval, the bill will create a guidebook to help educators and families identify and deal with dyslexia.

The cost for regular gas in Wisconsin is down three-cents-a-gallon compared to a week ago.  Triple-A says the average price statewide is two-dollars-and-39-cents, while it’s two-53 across the country.  Drivers in Madison are paying two-35 and in Milwaukee, two-38.  In neighboring Illinois drivers are paying a Midwest-high two-65 for a gallon of regular gas.

A traffic stop leads to a drug bust in Sawyer Co. It was on January 24th at 10:40 a.m. when a Sawyer County Deputy conducted a traffic stop near the Village of Stone Lake on a tan Chevrolet Blazer because the driver, 34 year old James Q. A. Griffin, was not wearing his seat belt. While the Deputy completed the seat belt violation citation, another Deputy arrived and utilized his K-9 partner, Trace, who alerted to the presence of drugs

On Friday, January 24th at 5:15 in the morning a 4-vehicle crash happened on Hwy 53 north of Hwy 8. A truck lost control and struck a guard rail. Two semi-trucks traveling north collided with each other to avoid this crash and a vehicle that was travelling behind the semi-trucks could not stop in time and stuck the back of one of them. Only one minor injury and one lane of Hwy 53 was closed for about one hour. All