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No one is saying when Travis King may come home to Racine. The Pentagon yesterday said North Korea returned King to U.S. custody. He’d been in North Korea since he ran across the border back in July. The Pentagon says it’s secured King’s return, but isn’t offering any details as to just how. The Army says King was facing discipline after his time in a South Korean jail just before he ran across the border into North Korea. King’s family

There will be beer but not fried food at the Estabrook Park Beer Garden. Milwaukee County’s Sheriff’s Office says somebody stole thousands of dollars worth of kitchen equipment meant for the Oktoberfest celebration. Investigators say the theft happened Tuesday night, they took two friars and a freezer. Beer garden organizers say they will remain open, though they’ll have to deal with some changes because of the thefts. There’s no video of the theft, deputies say whoever hit the beer garden

The new rules that make it clear school administrators cannot strip students down to their underwear is back at the Wisconsin Capitol.  An Assembly panel will hold a hearing today on the legislation that follows up a strip search in a northeastern Wisconsin school district. The administrator in Suring schools had six high school students strip down to their underwear in an attempt to find a vape cartridge. Prosecutors initially filed charges, but had to drop them because Wisconsin law

You can now put yogurt cups and the plastic bag from inside cereal boxes in your recycling in Eau Claire. The county yesterday said it is expanding its plastics recycling program. Plastic Number Five will now be accepted. Most cities only accept Plastics Number One And Two, but some companies take more. Reagan Watts with the county says there’s a market for Plastic Number Five so companies are now accepting that. If you’re not sure just what Plastic Number Five

The winner of this year’s coolest thing made in Wisconsin will be decided March Madness style. Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce yesterday introduced a bracket system for the Coolest Thing Made In Wisconsin contest. There are 16 different things this year Ranging from applewood smoked bacon, to skee-ball machines, to Jolly Good Soda. Voters across the state will decide which product moves forward in the competition. The voting opens today and runs through October 3rd. This is the 8th year for

The Powerball jackpot is inching closer to a billion dollars after no one won last night. Lottery managers say Saturday night’s drawing will be worth 925 million-dollars. That would mean a lump sum payment of just over 430 million, before taxes of course. No one has won the big Powerball jackpot since July when someone in California hit a billion dollar winner.

A Frank Lloyd-Wright house is up for sale for the first time in 70 years. The home was built in 1916 and is being sold for one-and-a-half-million dollars, or fully furnished for nine-million. Frank Lloyd-Wright was an American architect born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. He designed more than one-thousand homes and buildings in his career. LEARN MORE ABOUT WRIGHT WITH A CLICK HERE.

PHOTO: Students first debuted their book and read excerpts at an event during the College’s investiture week, recently. Sting Chou has never been a fan of writing – even in his native language of Traditional Chinese. But that didn’t stop him from being one of many Chippewa Valley Technical College English Language Learner (ELL) students who willingly told fascinating and, many times, harrowing stories of things that have happened in their past and as immigrants to the United States. “Although

A vice president at Minnesota State University-Mankato will soon be leaving for a new job in Wisconsin. Lynn Akey has been named chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Akey has been responsible for strategic planning at the Mankato college for the past decade and is credited with increasing student retention and graduation rates. She’ll begin her new job on January 2nd.

Investigation continues after a deadly crash in Taylor County. It was on September 26, 2023, at 2:54 p.m. the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting a one vehicle accident with multiple injuries.  The location was reported to be on Oriole Dr. north of CTH-O in the Town of Medford, Taylor County. Emergency services were dispatched, including fire, ambulance, and law enforcement. Taylor County deputies were first on scene and found that all of the vehicle’s occupants had