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Four candidates are qualified for the upcoming special election in Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District.  Reports say Republicans Tom Tiffany and Jason Church and Democrats Tricia Zunker and Lawrence Dale have each gotten one-thousand signatures on their nomination forms.  The primaries are on February 18th and the election is May 12th.

They were pellet guns. Police say the Waukesha South High School student who was shot Monday by a school resource officer had two pellet guns. One was in his waistband, the other was in his backpack. Police say both guns looked very real. Waukesha Police Captain Dan Baumann says the student brought the guns to school because he was angry with another student.

It’s not just Wausau. There are a number of cities in Wisconsin that, technically, outlaw throwing snowballs. Wausau got a lot of headlines after a story over the weekend highlighted a ban on snowball fights. Channel 12 last night reported that six other cities in the state have similar bans.

Police in Eau Claire are looking for whoever is responsible for a shooting Monday that left and a man and his dog injured. Police do not believe the attack was random, they say the victim was likely targeted. Detectives are asking for tips in the case.

Blame the late season, blame the weather, blame the standing crops. Blame whatever you want, Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources says the 2019 deer season was down about 25 percent. Hunters bagged almost 161 thousand deer during the nine day hunting season this year. Last year, hunters shot nearly 214 thousand deer.

No one is saying what drove a 16-year-old high school student in Oshkosh to attack his school resource officer. The officer is recovering after being stabbed, and the student is recovering after the officer shot him. It happened yesterday at Oshkosh West High School. No one else was hurt in the shooting. Students were sent home for the day after the attack. On the heels of two shootings in two days the political discussions are firing up. One Wisconsin lawmaker wants something

Folks who go to the animal shelter in Chippewa County are going to have to wait to meet their new dog. Shelter managers say they’re changing the way adoptions work. The Chippewa County Humane Association’s Stacy Wiemer says as opposed letting people walk through the kennel, there will now be an interview and shelter workers will allow people to meet dogs one-on-one. Wiemer said the old way of walking around got the dogs too excited, and that hurt some possible

Scott Walker may not be done with elected office. The former governor told a crowd at the Milwaukee Press Club yesterday that he is open to running for office again. Walker said he’s not looking at anything till 2025, though he said you never know. Walker did tip his hat about the next governor’s race. He said his former Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch would be a ‘hell of a great governor.

The state of Wisconsin is spending nearly 20 thousand-dollars to make sure there are free feminine hygiene products in two dozen state-owned buildings. The state yesterday said it has finished installing dispensers for pads and tampons at the Capitol and other public buildings. Madison State Rep. Melissa Sargent has pushed the idea for years. She says having free feminine products in bathrooms is no different than providing soap or paper towels.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul says he doesn’t want to ever see more DNA kits languish in police departments across the state. Kaul yesterday asked lawmakers to pass a law that requires police departments to test kits within two weeks of collection. The A-G’s office just finished testing thousands of old DNA kits that were ignored for years. Kaul says there is plenty of support for the law. He wants a public hearing as soon as possible.