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The top-ranked Badger women’s volleyball team set a record. Nearly 17-thousand people turned out last night to watch Wisconsin beat Marquette in a volleyball matchup at Fiserv Forum. UW officials say the crowd was the largest ever for a women’s sporting event in the state.

A Go-Fund-Me is live to help the family of the man who died during the IRONMAN Wisconsin Triathlon Sunday. 51-year-old Dax Bakken from Madison died during the biking portion of the Ironman Race in Cross Plains. Authorities say Bakken “suffered a medical event” and died at a local hospital. He was a military veteran who served in Desert Storm. Bakken leaves behind three children. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

At approximately 12:15 pm the Wisconsin State Patrol responded to a five-vehicle crash on Highway 35 just north of Fountain City. A preliminary investigation indicates a southbound vehicle crossed the center line and struck a northbound vehicle head on, causing three other vehicles to crash. Two inured occupants were airlifted to area hospitals and the remaining injured occupants were transported by ambulance to area hospitals. At this time both north and south bound lanes remain closed and the cause of

The 81-year-old Eau Claire man accused of killing his wife says he doesn’t want a lawyer. John Berthold was in court yesterday. He told the judge he doesn’t want any legal representation, though the judge told him to meet with a lawyer anyway. Investigators say Berthold admitted to beating his 77-year-old wife to death back in July. He says he killed her because she was a narcissist, and because he couldn’t take it anymore. Berthold is due back in court

We know who died in the IRONMAN Wisconsin triathlon over the weekend, but we do not know how.  Family members say Dax Bakken died during the cycling portion of the race.  Dane County’s medical examiner has not announced a formal cause of death, instead authorities simply say Bakken had a ‘medical emergency.’  Bakken is a Desert Storm veteran, and leaves behind a partner and three children.

Things are slowly coming back online at HSHS hospitals.  The hospital system yesterday said its EPIC platform, which allows patients to schedule appointments online and send messages to their health care providers, came back online.  HSHS has been dealing with a number of problems since something happened to its computer network at the end of August.  No one is calling it a hack, but the ‘system outage’ froze phone lines and locked-out HSHS hospitals across the country.

Altoona is getting rid of back-in parking in River Prairie. The city announced yesterday that it will repaint the parking spaces, and transition to a regular parking pattern over the next few days. City administrator Mike Golat says they thought back-in parking would be safer, but he says people hated it. Crews will close the streets around River Prairie to make the changes tonight and tomorrow night. The hope is to be ready for regular parking by Friday.

There is another Republican in the race for U.S. Senate. Trempealeau County Board Supervisor Stacey Klein yesterday filed the paperwork to run against Senator Tammy Baldwin next year. Klein has been on the county board in Trempealeau County for the past year or so. She says she knows it will be an uphill climb to beat Baldwin. UW-Stevens Point student Rejani Raveendran is the only other Republican running against Baldwin, so far.

The latest doomed tax cut plan is halfway to Governor Evers’ desk. Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly yesterday approved a three-billion-dollar tax cut that would lower income taxes for most people in the state, and make retirement essentially tax free for most seniors. Regardless, the plan won’t go through. Governor Evers has already promised to veto the tax cut. He says Wisconsin cannot afford it.

A new report shows just how dangerous, and common, falls are in Wisconsin.  The state’s Department of Health Services released the report this week.  It says falls make up 18-percent of EMS runs in the state, and that more people are falling.  DHS’s numbers show that EMS providers responded to 25-thousand-55 more falls in 2022 than they did in 2019.  Falls are increasing by about ten-thousand per year. Most falls, the report shows, aren’t deadly, though some certainly can be.