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 A $50,000 Powerball winning ticket was sold at Kwik Trip on 4085 E. Calumet in Appleton for the Monday, August 7 drawing. The winning ticket matched four of five numbers (6-13-20-35-54) plus the Powerball (22) This Appleton Kwik Trip sold several big winning tickets in recent years including $100,000 and $30,000 scratch tickets and a $132,000 Badger 5 jackpot in 2019. Powerball’s top prize is climbing again, with the estimated jackpot of $170 million for the Wednesday, August 9 drawing. Players have 180 days from the draw date to

Add Northeast Wisconsin Technical College to the list of schools with a Metallica scholarship. The band has offered the Metallica Scholars Initiative for years. There are 42 colleges enrolled, now including three in Wisconsin. The new offer means 100 NWTC students are now eligible for one-thousand dollar scholarships towards degrees or certificates in health sciences, human services, construction, manufacturing, and transportation.

Prosecutors will charge the two suspects in the murder of an Altoona man separately.  Court records show 47-year-old Brandon Gaston and 57-year-old Tracey Clark will not be tried together for last year’s murder of 79-year-old Dennis Schattie.  Investigators believe he was killed in Eau Claire, but his body was later found in the river near Rockford, Illinois in April of 2022.  There is no word when the two will actually go on trial.  There’s a hearing in Gaston’s case at

There were once again questions about whether the teenage suspect in the murder of Lily Peters can be helped behind bars.  A judge in Chippewa County yesterday again listened to the suspect’s lawyer try to make the case to move the trial to juvenile court.  Yesterday’s expert testified that the suspect had mild autism, and might not fully understand what he did.  The now 15-year-old is accused of beating, strangling, killing, then assaulting 10-year-old Lily Peters in April of last

A new law will allow school board members in Wisconsin to drive school buses.  Governor Evers signed the law last week.  It eliminates a part of Wisconsin’s school board law that stopped school board members from holding second jobs with the school district.  School board members can now volunteer to drive a bus, they cannot be paid.  About half of Wisconsin’ school districts say they are in need of bus drivers, though it’s not clear just how many school board

Wisconsin’s attorney general is turning down another PFAS settlement.  A-G Josh Kaul yesterday joined four other attorneys general in rejecting the one billion-dollar PFAS settlement from DuPont.  Kaul said the company’s one-point-18-billion-dollar offer isn’t enough.  Kaul’s rejection of DuPont’s offer comes about two weeks after he rejected a ten-billion-dollar settlement offer from 3M.  Kaul said that offer too was too little for the millions of people in Wisconsin, and other states who now have to worry about their water because

Sorry to break the news to you, but if you were hoping to wake up a billionaire, it’s likely not the case. The winning one-point-five-eight-billion-dollar Mega Millions jackpot is going to someone, or a group who bought their ticket in Florida. That lucky ticket matched all six numbers for Tuesday’s Mega Millions jackpot, the largest jackpot ever for the lottery game. The winning Mega numbers for the Tuesday, August 8th, drawing: 13, 19, 20, 32, 33, and the Mega number

ABOVE PHOTO: Capt. Anna Leadens, a Wisconsin Army National Guard area support medevac platoon leader and UH-60 Black Hawk maintenance test pilot, discusses her career in military aviation as Maj. Sarah Latza, Capt. Meredith Porter and 2nd Lt. Charnelle Pinson look on during a panel discussion July 26 as part of the Experimental Aircraft Association’s WomenVenture, an effort to honor and promote women’s role in flight during the EAA’s annual AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wis. Wisconsin National Guard photo by Staff

Governor Tony Evers is calling a special session of the state legislature. He wants lawmakers to work on legislation to stabilize Wisconsin’s childcare industry to make it more affordable. He also wants expanded paid family leave.

Students and parents will spend part of the month preparing for back-to-school routines and schedules. HSHS Sacred Heart and St. Joseph’s hospitals and Prevea Health recommend part of that prep include health-related tasks. Update vaccinations: The best way to help your child stay healthy is to follow the recommended vaccine schedule from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It lists immunizations children of various ages need, including:  “I often encourage families to start their school routines at least a week prior to