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The Sara Lee bakery plant in Madison is closing.  The 160 employees were notified today that Bimbo Bakeries USA will stop operations around the first of the year.  Officials say production will be picked up by other facilities.  Customers of Sara Lee are not expected to see any change in products.

Two thousand volunteers are needed and should report to the staging area at 1883 Hwy 25, Barron WI, also known as The Hungry Hollow Grounds at the intersection of Hwy 25 and 19 th Ave no later than 9:00 a.m. All volunteers must be registered at the staging area in order to participate in the search. Barron County officials will register all volunteers until 9:00 a.m., gates will close promptly at that time. We hope to be completed by 4pm.

Barron Schools are trying to help with the spiritual and emotional care of the community as they cope with the disappearance of Jayme Closs and the deaths of her parents.  A Gathering of Hope for Jayme Closs was held last night at Barron High School at the outdoor football field.  The event included music, community activities, resources for families, and sharing of hope through a lighting ceremony.  Local mental health staff were on hand offering support. 

Governor Walker says the state will put off the largest road projects in southeastern Wisconsin if he’s re-elected.  Walker said yesterday that the state needs a break from road construction.  His call for delays comes as business leaders are calling for a billion dollars of work on I-94 in Milwaukee.

A second round of school safety grants is being awarded.  Attorney General Brad Schimel announced the grants as he was attending an adolescent mental health training in Madison yesterday as part of Wisconsin Safe Schools Week.  The money is distributed by the WisconsinDepartment of Justice Office of School Safety.

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire professor emeritus Henry Lippold has died.  Lippold had a 55-year broadcast and academic career, and taught journalism courses for 30 years at UW-Eau Claire.  He was inducted into the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2002.  He died Saturday at the age of 89.

An Eau Claire organization is celebrating eleven years of activism in the Chippewa Valley.  The Joining Our Neighbors Advancing Hope, or JONAH organization brings people together to talk about issues of social justice, including immigration and affordable housing.  The group works to bring out change by pulling from various resources and partnerships in the community.  Officials with JONAH say it’s not a political or religious group, but a group that brings people together to take action.

We now have a little more information out of Barron County. Authorities are identifying vehicles of interest in connection with the disappearance of 13-year-old Jayme Closs.  Closs hasn’t been seen for a week, and her parents were found murdered.  Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said surveillance video has caught two vehicles that were in the area of the Closs home at the time of the incident. CLICK HERE FOR UP TO DATE AMBER ALERT INFORMATION ON THIS CASE

A golf course owner from Colfax is dead after a two-vehicle crash near Lake Denton.  The Wisconsin State Patrol says 56-year-old Scot Miller and seven other people were involved in the crash on Saturday afternoon on eastbound Interstate 90.  The three other people in Miller’s car all suffered life-threatening injuries, while four people in the other car involved were uninjured.  So far, Miller is the only death. 

An Elkhorn man is getting a new kidney thanks to a post that went viral on Twitter.  The Journal Sentinel reports Lenny Zweig was pictured at a Brewers game back in April with a t-shirt asking people to share their spare kidney.  Since then, the post has been shared over 18-thousand times and resulted in the pairing of Zweig with Emily Nowak who is donating one of her kidneys to save his life.  Zweig’s surgery is expected to take place