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The end of Thanksgiving Day marked the start of the holiday season in Chippewa Falls.  Christmas Village in Irvine Park opened last night.  The park’s lights will shine each night until January 1st.  This is the 36th year for the Christmas Village, and this year there is a new mailbox for kids to send their letters to Santa.  Admission is free, but donations to Christmas Village are always welcome and you can CLICK HERE FOR MORE DETAILS.

There’s been an arrest in Chippewa County’s suitcase murder.  Officers in Gladstone, Missouri arrested Jose Dominguez Garcia early yesterday morning.  He’s the main suspect in the killing of Rosaly “Cindy” Chavarria Rodriguez in Chippewa County.  She was pregnant at the time.  She disappeared from the Wisconsin Dells, and wasn’t seen again until her remains were found in a suitcase near the town of Wheaton in Chippewa County.  Dominguez Garcia is waiting to be brought back to Wisconsin to face charges.

A doctor will decide if a murder suspect in Jackson County is fit enough to go to trial.  A judge this week ordered a competency hearing for 50-year-old Star Myers.  She’s facing charges in Jackson County after the sheriff says she shot and killed her boyfriend.  She’s been charged with homicide and other charges.  Myers originally reported her boyfriend missing, but deputies say they later discovered she’s the reason why he went missing.

We are waiting for more details about a Thanksgiving Day stabbing that sent a Sparta man to the hospital. Police say they responded to a 911 call and found 44-year-old George Solis of Tomah inside a house on Main Street in Sparta yesterday afternoon. They also found a stabbing victim in the house.  Officers say that man is now fighting for his life.  Investigators are not saying how the two knew each other, or what led up to the stabbing.

Wisconsin’s governor is asking people across the state to shop small this holiday season.  Governor Tony Evers says Shop Small Wisconsin is a reminder that small businesses across the state have a lot to offer.  The governor says by shopping locally at small businesses, the money you spend stays in the community and goes further.  The official Shop Small Wisconsin effort kicks off tomorrow, with Small Business Saturday.

Greendale High School’s marching band spent its Thanksgiving marching in New York City. The band was the only one from Wisconsin to march in this year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. NBC’s Hoda Kotb gave them the shoutout during the parade, mentioning that Greendale’s band is 19-time state champs. Band director Tom Reifenberg said before the parade that it was an honor to be invited to march on Thanksgiving day.

Happy Thanksgiving! With many planning to leave room for the pie (and stuffing, and potato’s, and seconds…) we thought we would start the day by dishing up some quick Thanksgiving facts and fun. Bonus? It’s all calorie-free…but, let’s just go ahead and agree that calories don’t count on Thansgiving, right? First of all, why do we celebrate this day? We didn’t always. Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday in the United States, tracing back to the Plymouth colonists from England

Wisconsin’s deer hunting accidental total stands at two after the first weekend of gun season. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is reporting a pair of accidental shootings. One, in Forest County, saw a hunter shoot himself in the foot while trying to adjust his rifle sling. The other saw a hunter in Adams County shoot a woman in the stomach while she was walking her dog through the woods. She had to be flown to the local hospital. The

Four teenage lifeguards from Rock County are being honored by the Red Cross for saving a life. The Red Cross yesterday gave Madisyn Kail, Tyra Legman, Addison Swan, and Jaelyn Hillard the Lifesaving Award for Professional Responders award for saving a boy from drowning at the pool in Brodhead in June. The Lifesaving Award is the highest award that the Red Cross can bestow. The girls’ Red Cross instructor nominated them. He said to see them act so quickly, and

It could be as much as 20 years in prison for the man who firebombed Madison’s pro-life office last year. Hridindu Roychowdhury pleaded guilty to tossing two Molotov cocktails into Wisconsin Family Action’s headquarters to protest the decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade. He then fled to Boston. Federal investigators linked him to the case through DNA evidence pulled off the Molotov cocktails, and from a burrito he tossed in the trash. Prosecutors have agreed to ask for a smaller