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Loons are falling from the sky in Wisconsin. The folks at the Raptor Education Group in Antigo say Wisconsin’s recent cold snap is too much for the birds, and is freezing their feathers and forcing them out of the skies. Loons can only fly and swim, so there’s no opportunity for them to land where there’s no water. The Raptor Group says it’s gotten calls from Wausau, Stratford, Rice Lake, and other places in northern Wisconsin. Volunteers and vets check out the birds

It was stormy one for some people in southeast Wisconsin. A line of strong thunderstorms rolled across the area, leaving flooding, downed trees, and power outages behind. Bay View saw some of the worst of the weather; there was hail, flooding, and a tree that came down on someone’s car. WE Energies says about 17 hundred people lost power at some point yesterday. Just under 200 people remained without power overnight.

 A lot of people are excited about the new era for University of Wisconsin football. The school yesterday said fans have reserved 20-thousand tickets for this weekend’s open practice. The practice is being called The Launch. It’s a two-hour, 11-on-11 practice tomorrow that will give fans a sneak peak at the team. This is new coach Luke Fickle’s first open spring practice, and expectations are high.

At 12 p.m. the Chippewa River gauge at Grand Avenue read just over 770 feet, which is approximately three feet below flood stage. While the river has dropped several feet since Saturday, recent and forecasted precipitation will cause the river level to rise, cresting again at just over 773 feet on Saturday,April 22. Two special events in the city, the Jeanne Richie Memorial Puddle Jump 5K Run/Walk, and the Amazing Eau Claire Clean-Up are planned for this weekend and City

The young Dane County man convicted of killing his parents back in 2021 has had two of his convictions tossed, but his sentence won’t change. A judge yesterday dismissed Chandler Halderson’s convictions for hiding his parents’ corpses. Wisconsin law doesn’t allow someone to be convicted of two crimes if one of them is considered a lesser crime. Hiding a corpse is a lesser crime than murder. Halderson is serving a life sentence for killing his parents, then hiding their remains at the

Eric Holder will be the graduation speaker at UW-Madison this spring. Holder, who served as President Obama’s Attorney General, has ties to the University of Wisconsin. He spoke at the UW Law School graduation back in 2016, and his daughter graduated from the Madison campus back in 2020. Holder will speak to the graduates and their families during the ceremony on May 13th.

Authorities in St. Croix County are looking into a body found in the river there. Police in Hudson say they got a call about a possible body in the St. Croix River yesterday morning. Rescue crews pulled the body out, but no one is offering any other details. Hudson Police are waiting on the medical examiner’s office to ID the body before saying anything to the public.

It was a day of precautions in Chippewa County after a tanker truck full of acid rolled onto its side. It happened in Stanley, just off South Broadway Street. Stanley Police say the tanker was carrying three thousand gallons of sulfuric acid, when it flipped on its side. Officers say none of the acid spilled. Still, a haz-mat team was called-in, and police closed several streets during the clean-up. There are no reports of any injuries. Authorities are not saying

Wisconsin’s former parole chief is now facing a felony charge for public corruption. Prosecutors in Racine yesterday filed formal charges against John Tate the Second. The D.A. says Tate, who is currently a Racine alderman, voted to create a new violence interruption coordinator position last summer. He then accepted that job last fall. Prosecutors say Tate broke the state’s ‘private interest in a public contract’ law by voting for a job that he had an inside track on. Tate never

The Green Bay woman accused of chopping-up her boyfriend after a day of drug use will be tried in Green Bay. Taylor Schabusiness’ lawyers want to move the case out of Green Bay, saying there’s no way she can get a fair trial. The judge yesterday said he didn’t see any evidence of that. Schabusiness is looking at homicide charges after police say she strangled her boyfriend while they were having sex, then chopped-up his body and hit the pieces