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Another Wisconsin-based company is having system-wide computer issues. American Family Insurance, based in Madison, reports unusual activity on its network. They say they are investigating the odd changes, but say no critical business or customer data appears to be compromised. Some systems have been shut down now, and will be brought online again once an investigation and safeguarding measures are complete. Kwik Trip, also based in Wisconsin, says their computer systems were having problems all week after a cyber-attack.

Wisconsin deer hunters are warned to keep their tree stands away from ash trees. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says many ash trees across the state, especially in the southern half of the state, are dying or dead. They say while the Emerald Ash Borer isn’t as widespread through parts of Wisconsin, unreported infestations could be a possibility. The DNR warns of ash trees infested with E-A-B, since they can snap or drop large branches without warning. They say

A new nationwide study says Wisconsin has the worst cyber passwords in the nation. The survey by casino-dot-org says 80-percent of Wisconsinites are using the same password for multiple accounts.  The national average is under half of that, at 73-point-six-percent. States were scored on a scale of one-to-one-hundred based on five different factors – Wisconsin scored 0, and Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois only scored a little better. People in the best password states have up to 26 different passwords.

A lot of memories are made in our school years and for this weeks Friday Feel Good, a walk down memory lane has a certain ring to it.  A Michigan man was reunited with his class ring after losing it 25 years ago.  John Leath was the student and he  talks about losing his ring decades ago when he asked his aunt to hold it for him.   Then after a road trip and more than two decades, we come full circle, to Margaret Langley,

A judge has banned the man who showed-up at the Capitol with a pair of guns from returning to the statehouse. Joshua Pleasnicck pleaded not guilty yesterday to misdemeanor weapons charges after he brought a pistol, then a rifle to the Capitol earlier this month in an attempt to talk to Governor Evers. Pleasnick’s lawyer yesterday says there’s a narrative that he wanted to harm the governor, he said that’s not true. Still, the judge has banned Pleasnick from the

The Racine soldier who bolted into North Korea has been charged with desertion. The Pentagon announced the charges against Travis King yesterday. King spent about two months in North Korea after he fled into the country back in July. No one is saying why King ran, but he;d just been released from a South Korean jail and was facing additional punishments from the Army back here in the US. King is also being charged with possessing sexual images of a

Fond du Lac County’s wounded police dog is up and moving. The sheriff’s office yesterday said K9 Iro is walking with a cast, and is slowly recovering. Iro was wounded in a weekend shootout that saw a deputy shoot and kill an armed man. The sheriff does say they hope to get Iro fully healed as soon as possible.

Kwik Trip is now saying it was a hack that disrupted its computer system for the past week. The company yesterday said a ‘cybersecurity incident’ on Monday October 9th knocked computers offline. Kwik Trip says they are looking for the source of the hack, but have not yet found it. The hack disabled Kwik Trip’s rewards program. The company yesterday said the rewards program is finally back on-line, but the Kwik Trip app and the company’s website remain down.

Wisconsin’s largest pumpkin is now in Eau Claire. Master Gardener Brian Mathiowetz says his pumpkin, Macie, weighed in at just over 24 hundred pounds last weekend. That makes his pumpkin the largest in Wisconsin history. Mathiowetz says he started growing giant pumpkins about five years ago, and has no plans to stop. The old record for largest pumpkin in Wisconsin was two-thousand-283 pounds, much smaller than Macie.

Add this to the list of things being mixed up at the Wisconsin Capitol. Lawmakers want to make the brandy Old Fashioned Wisconsin’s official cocktail. State Representative Jon Plumer and State Senator Cory Tomczyk are pushing the idea. Wisconsin is in love with the brandy Old Fashioned, in fact drinkers in Wisconsin buy more brandy than anyone else in the U.S.  The Old Fashioned would be the state’s official cocktail because milk is already the state’s official beverage. Lawmakers made