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ThE Badgers are off to a hot start after blowing out South Florida in the opening game of the football season.  Wisconsin didn’t face much resistance during the 49-0 win yesterday in Tampa.  The Badger defense dominated the Bulls, forcing three turnovers and returning a fumble for a touchdown.  UW hosts Central Michigan next Saturday. 

Red Cross volunteers and Wisconsin power utility crews are heading to Florida to help deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.  At least 16 volunteers have been deployed by the Wisconsin Red Cross.  Some utility crews leave Sunday and will arrive in Florida in about ten days to assist in re-establishing electric service.  The hurricane has the potential to be a Category 4 when it makes landfall sometime late Monday or early Tuesday. 

The average cost for a gallon of regular gas in Wisconsin is down four-cents-a-gallon for the fourth straight week.  Triple-A says the average price statewide is two-dollars-and-53-cents today, 18-cents lower than a month ago.  The highest prices are posted in Wausau, Eau Claire and St. Croix County at two-61.  Drivers are paying a state-low of two-45-a-gallon in Janesville and Racine.  

Two people are hurt in two separate crashes on Highway 53 in Eau Claire County.  In the first crash, two people were thrown from their car when it rolled off the highway in Altoona yesterday afternoon.  The second involved a semi truck and it closed several ramps and lanes on 53 yesterday afternoon.  It’s unclear how serious the injuries are. 

A Chippewa Falls man is pleading not guilty to a hit and run that happened in Eau Claire earlier this month.  Byer Nevins is accused of injuring someone during the hit and run while driving intoxicated near the Chippewa River Bridge on August 7th.  Nevins was identified after his car was found and the people inside told police he was the one driving.  He’s facing ten charges in the case. 

A former Onalaska farmer is going to prison for one year in connection with a fraud case.  Henry Berg was accused of fraudulently obtaining a 650-thousand dollar loan and then defaulting on it back in 2015.  Berg claimed he got the loan for his farm but he reportedly subleased the land to a relative, didn’t repay the loan, and sold the collateral and kept the proceeds.  He received his sentence yesterday and will report to prison on October 4th. 

Eau Claire County is getting more than 600-thousand dollars to fund three Ameri-Corps projects in the area.  Serve Wisconsin recently announced it’s awarded the county 605-thousand dollars for National and Community Service.  The money will go to the Western Dairyland’s Fresh Start program, the Blugold Beginnings STEM camps, and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire ECLIPSE program. 

Sprecher doesn’t want to be left out of the alcoholic seltzer game.  The root beer company yesterday announced plans for its own hard seltzer.  Sprecher is introducing the Wisconsin Old Fashioned Press Hard Seltzer.  The company says it will taste like an Old Fashioned, but in a can.  Sprecher says it will hit the shelves across the state soon. 

A cold case from 2012 is the first sexual assault case to be closed after the state of Wisconsin started testing old DNA kits.  A jury yesterday found Leroy Whittenberger guilty of assaulting a teenager in the town of New London.  The DNA kit from the case sat on a shelf until it was tested in 2017.  The state has tested about four-thousand old DNA kits from across Wisconsin.  Thirty five of those tests have been referred for charges. 

You’ll have to get up north, and away from the city, but forecasters say folks in Wisconsin could see the northern lights this weekend.  NOAA says there will be a good chance for a light show late tomorrow and early Sunday.  Folks in Minnesota and the U.P will certainly see the lights.  Forecasters say folks in about the northern half of Wisconsin could also see the show.