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Pets can make a house a home and for this weeks Friday Feel Good we meet a dog who busted out of a shelter to take finding a home into his own…paws.  A Michigan dog who repeatedly escaped from the animal shelter he was living in, then broke into a nearby nursing home, is now helping out that same shelter.   Scout was eventually adopted by the nursing home but is now helping to raise money for the Antrim County Animal Shelter.  What started

We are waiting for answers about just what forced a Delta flight to land in Madison last night. The plane took off from Minneapolis about 8:30 p.m., but made an emergency landing in Madison about an hour later. The plane was heading to Buffalo. Delta blames a ‘mechanical issue’ for the ‘unscheduled landing.’ No one on board was hurt. No one, however, is saying just what the mechanical issue was.

Two people are facing charges for a police chase in Augusta last week.  The D.A, in Eau Claire field charges earlier this week against 21-year-old Alexander Rose and 34-year-old Cassandra Sloviak.  Police say they sped away from cops in Augusta last Wednesday.  It took a chase, then a foot chase, then a police dog to capture them both.  Prosecutors are moving ahead with fleeing, attempted battery, and possession with intent to deliver THC charges.

There are charges against the Monroe County deputy whose police K9 died after being left in a hot car.  Prosecutors this week filed a single charge of mistreating animals against 29-year-old Detective Alexander Maas.  He’s the one who left his police dog, Kolt, in a hot squad car back in May.  Mistreating an animal is a misdemeanor charge in Wisconsin, punishable by up to nine months in jail and a ten-thousand dollar fine.  Maas was suspended after Kolt had to

Madison Police say the suspect in last weekend’s brutal attack on a UW student says he ‘went into a rage.’  Prosecutors filed formal charges against 26-year-old Brandon Thompson yesterday.  He’s charged with beating, raping, and nearly killing a young woman early last Sunday morning.  Investigators say Thompson admitted beating the woman, but denied raping her.  Asked why, police say Thompson told them he ‘went into a rage.’  Witnesses say Thompson was covered in the woman’s blood when they found him

Wisconsin’s Citizens Utility Board is asking state regulators to limit the profits for some of Wisconsin’s largest utilities.  CUB yesterday asked the state’s Public Service Commission to hold the line on rate hike requests from Alliant Energy, Xcel Energy, and Madison Gas and Electric.  All three utilities have hearings before the PSC next week, and all three are asking to charge customers more.  CUB’s Steve Kihm says state regulators need to think about customer affordability, and not just a return

Wisconsin can no longer use a national voter registration form. A judge earlier this week said the form asks for information not required by state law, while at the same time not asking for information required by state law. One of the issues is that the national form asks voters about their race. The judge’s order only impacts voter registration going forward. No one who registered with the national form in the past will be removed from Wisconsin’s voter rolls.

It’s apparently dragonfly season in southeast Wisconsin. People say they are seeing swarms of the bugs in their yards each day.  Mequon Nature Preserve manager Jamie Schiesel says it’s natural, and actually quite a good thing.  Schiesel says this is the time of year when dragonflies migrate.  He says the dragonflies are also eating other bugs, namely mosquitoes.  Schiesel says the dragonflies will probably be with use until the first frost of the fall.

More of Wisconsin is sliding into deeper drought. This week’s U-S Drought Monitor Map is now showing a new area of exceptional drought–the top end of severity–over a section of Southwest Wisconsin. Almost all of the southern half of the state is in exceptional, extreme or severe drought. There’s also a new area of extreme drought in Northeast Wisconsin. Nearly 85 percent of Wisconsin is under some level of drought.

The 20th Annual Chippewa Falls Oktoberfest is just around the corner. Taking place on September 15-16, at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds, 225 Edward Street, Chippewa Falls, WI, with over 10,000 attendees each year. Get ready for a weekend filled with live music, family-friendly fun, and delicious German food. Don’t forget to mark your calendars for the exciting moment when we reveal this year’s Oktoberfest Festmeister and Festmeisterin at the Leinenkugel Brewery. This happens at noon on Friday, September 15,