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ABOVE PHOTO: HBS college recruiters Kristin Robinson and Abby Vandenberg with the Employer of the Year award. Photos provided by Heartland Business Systems.  Heartland Business Systems has been named the 2023 Employer of the Year by University of Wisconsin-Stout.   The award, presented at the third annual Employer Recognition Event, honors HBS’ commitment to go above and beyond in collaboration with Career Services to support students’ applied learning experiences.   About 70 business partners attended the recognition event, when Career Services provided campus updates, recruitment strategies and engagement

Dane County’s sheriff is investigating an attack on a jail guard. It happened Friday evening inside the county jail. Investigators say a guard was speaking with a prisoner on the jail sixth floor, when the prisoner then attacked the guard with a ‘makeshift weapon.’ Other guards then rushed-in and rescued the guard. In all, the sheriff’s office says, two guards were injured. Charges in the attack are pending.

It’s a sad day for baseball across Wisconsin. The Madison Mallards say Northwoods League umpire Conor McKenzie died in a car crash over the weekend. He was on his way to call yesterday’s game in Madison. Two other umps who were riding with him were also injured in the crash. The Mallards say they will hold a moment of silence for McKenzie before tonight’s game. The team canceled last night’s game, and say they plan to make it up on

Dunn County responders were on site of a deadly crash. It was on Sunday June 9th, at approximately 9:40pm, the Wisconsin State Patrol and the Dunn County Sheriff’s Department responded to a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 94 in Dunn County at milepost 38eastbound. Upon arrival it was discovered the driver of one of the vehicles, 32-year-old Wenxuan Han, from Baldwin Park, CA was deceased. The crash remains under investigation by the Wisconsin State Patrol.

 Amid a violent weekend, no one was shot in Milwaukee on Saturday. Police in the city say four people were shot on Friday, and four others were shot on Sunday, but no one was shot on Saturday. Just one person died in the eight shootings, Milwaukee Police say a 48-year-old Milwaukee man was shot in his car just before 7 a.m. Friday morning. There’s no word about suspects or a motive in that case.

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly says a court will have to decide if Governor Evers has the power to extend school funding out for the next 400 years. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos was on UPFRONT over the weekend. He called the governor’s partial veto, which eliminated some numbers and a dash to extend a proposed two-year school funding increase out until the year 2425, ‘questionable.’ Wisconsin governors have broad veto powers, but Vos said it remains to be seen if the governor

Wisconsin’s governor says he’s willing to talk about a broader tax cut, but he wants something in return. Governor Tony Evers told a Madison TV station over the weekend that he vetoed the Republicans’ three-and-a-half billion-dollar tax cut from the state budget because it was ‘too broad.’ The governor says he’s willing to negotiate about a new tax cut, but wants to see what else Republican lawmakers are willing to bring to the table. The governor’s veto all but eliminated

The northern lights could be visible in the skies over Wisconsin and more than a dozen other states this week.  The University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute is predicting high activity of the aurora borealis on Thursday across Canada and much of the northern U.S.  The best time to see the northern lights will be from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. local time, and the best place to see them will be in rural areas away from the city lights. 

An arrest leads to a 7th OWI for a Texas man traveling in Wisconsin. Alfredo Pizarro, 46 years of age, from Abilene, TX has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 7th offense. On 07/08/23 at approximately 1:14am, a Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper observed a vehicle stopped on the right shoulder of Interstate 94 near milepost 53 in Dunn County. A subsequent investigation including a standardized field sobriety test

Hello. Welcome to your weekend. We are glad you are here! So, here we are in July and as Summer slips forward the week can sometimes feel stressful, packed, and exhausting. Hey, we get it. That’s why we like to slow things down a little bit on Saturday mornings with a “scroll down memory lane.” It’s a simple look back at events that happened on this day in history before you head out to create new history today. So, grab