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With New Years around the corner many contemplate resolutions that involve eating habits, since the holidays usually include a menu of extra treats and helpings. This week’s Friday feel good as us lending a helping hand and dishing up kindness. Whether you are the one who has fallen on hard times and someone lends one, or you see someone in need and reach out to lift them up.  This week we have a story about a restaurant owner who is going

We’re getting some more information about that police chase last week that left a Dane County deputy seriously injured. Prosecutors yesterday told a judge that the deputy was thrown up to 200 feet after the suspects in that chase hit the gas while the deputy was hanging on to their car door. That left the deputy with nerve damage in his arm. Dane County’s sheriff says the suspects in that chase, Terrence Moore and Cornelius Stewart, were wanted for allegedly

Authorities in Eau Claire are blaming yesterday’s interstate closure on a carjacking in the Twin Cities. The Highway Patrol closed parts of I-94 yesterday morning to chase and arrest a suspect who took a car in St. Paul. Troopers had to spring the car out to make the arrest. The chase and crash closed the interstate for about a half hour around 9:30 yesterday morning. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE.

President Biden is among those remembering Herb Kohl. The White House yesterday issued a statement that called Kohl one of Wisconsin’s greatest-ever advocates. The president said Kohl was ‘a kind and principled man of integrity and character.’ Kohl served alongside President Biden in the U.S. Senate for 24 years. Kohl died Wednesday after a brief illness. Here in our state, flags across Wisconsin are flying lower this week to remember Herb Kohl. Governor Tony Evers yesterday ordered flags lowered to

The now-former chancellor at UW-La Crosse says he was stunned to be fired over his porn videos. Joe Gow said in a series of interviews yesterday that he did not expect to lose his job over the videos that he and his wife filmed, produced, then distributed online. Gow said the videos had been up for about two months. He’s not sure just how university regents found-out about them. The UW board fired Gow on Wednesday. Gow continues to frame

Wisconsin Elections Commission has dismissed the 14th Amendment challenge to Donald Trump’s candidacy here in Wisconsin. Commissioners yesterday tossed progressive activist Kirk Bangstad’s challenge without comment. Bangstad expected the dismissal, and in fact welcomed it. Bangstad said his hope is to take the challenge to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This week saw Michigan’s Supreme Court reject a 14th Amendment challenge to the former president, and saw Maine’s top election manager accept a 14th Amendment challenge there.

Someone is cutting down road signs in Brown County. The sheriff’s office yesterday said there have been a ‘large number’ of signs cut down over the past few weeks. Most of the signs were cut down in the southern part of the county. Deputies say it looks like someone is using a saw to cut the wooden signposts in half. One of the signs that was cut is a stop sign. Captain Jody Lemmens says that’s particularly dangerous because a

Eau Claire is inching closer to livestream video out of the Hobbs Center. The city’s parks and rec department is working on a deal to install cameras, and set-up a feed. Parks and rec Manager Patrick Newkirk says the idea is allow parents and grandparents to watch their kids skate or play hockey without having to come all the way to Eau Claire, or even come across town. The rinks in Altoona, Chippewa Falls, and Menominee already have livestream feeds

Two French chefs and a cheesemaker have broken a Guinness World Record by creating a pizza with over a thousand different types of cheese.  Pizza Chef Benoît Bruel of Lyon was behind the culinary creation.  Bruel told Guinness World Records, “my only dream is to make pizzas with the widest variety of cheeses.”

John M Phalen, 70 years of age, from Stone Lake has been arrested by the Wisconsin State PatrolSpooner Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 5th offense. Troopers with the WI State Patrol stopped a vehicle on Hwy 27 near Hayward in Sawyer County foran equipment violation. Upon initial approach of the vehicle, troopers noticed the odor of marijuanaemitting from the vehicle. Ultimately the driver was arrested for operating a motor vehicle whileunder the influence of a controlled