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With temperatures and humidity expected to rise this week, Xcel Energy is offering tips to help customers find relief from the heat and their bills. Home cooling can account for about half of a summertime electric bill, and the best way customers can keep their bills low is to practice some basic conservation and efficiency habits that can keep you cool without stressing your family’s budget. Among the simplest ways customers can get the most out of theircooling are: CLICK

The Wisconsin State Patrol responded to a two-vehicle crash on US Highway 8 at Pinewood Road. First responders from multiple agencies worked to extricate the trapped driver of one of the vehicles utilizing the Jaws of Life. Both east and west bound lanes were shut down and the driver was airlifted to a local hospital with life threating injuries. The crash remains under investigation by the Wisconsin State Patrol.

There’s another warning about the air in Wisconsin. The National Weather Service has posted an Air Quality Alert for most of Wisconsin through noon tomorrow. Forecasters say smoke from the Canadian wildfires is once again to blame. The Alert means the air is unhealthy for people who are sensitive to smoke and other particulates in the air.

The Green Bay woman accused of chopping-up her boyfriend after a day of drug use is set to face a jury today. A judge on Friday said Taylor Schabusiness is competent enough to stand trial for last year’s murder of her boyfriend. Police say Schabusiness admitted that she killed the man while they were having sex. Officers say she then told them she cut him up into pieces, and hid those pieces around the house. Schabusinesses’ lawyers say she doesn’t

The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office says speed and alcohol played a role in a wreck that sent a 17-year-old to the hospital. The wreck happened about 4 a.m. yesterday morning after the teenage driver sped away from deputies. The chase reached 100 miles-per-hour before the teen crashed into the roundabout at Black Avenue and Riverview Drive. Deputies say the teen’s car rolled several times. Prosecutors are looking at OWI and several other charges in the case.

 Milwaukee has another double-digit weekend shooting tally. Police in the city say 13 people were shot between Saturday and early this morning. Six people were shot on Sunday alone, including a 37-year-old man who was Milwaukee’s only deadly shooting victim of the weekend. Milwaukee Police say three people were shot overnight, including two wounded in a double shooting.

Governor Evers has issued a new round of pardons, taking his total over one thousand. The governor on Friday issued 96 more pardons, Most of the people on this latest list were arrested for drugs years ago. The governor’s pardon doesn’t clear their records, but allows them to once again serve on a jury or hold public office. Governor Evers has now pardoned one-thousand-29 people since being elected in 2018, that’s a new record for Wisconsin governors. Former Governor Julius Heil set

Wisconsin lawmakers want to expand the definition of a strip search. Lawmakers last week held a hearing on a plan that would clarify stripping someone down to their underwear counts as a strip search. The clarification comes after the superintendent in Suring Schools stripped a handful of teenage girls down to their underwear to search for a vape cartridge. State Rep. David Steffen says prosecutors couldn’t punish the superintendent because she let them keep on their undergarments. Lawmakers say the change

It’s the latest sign of a return to normal. Eau Claire’s Garden in Bloom tour returned for the first time since the coronavirus. Eight homes were on this year’s tour. The idea is to showcase local gardeners and their flowers. The tour is a fundraiser, with the money raised going to the Eau Claire Gardens Club. The tour is an every-other-year thing, but this is the first time the tour has been offered since the pandemic.

 Gas prices across Wisconsin are unchanged this weekend.  Triple-A reports the statewide average for regular remained at three-40 a gallon Saturday.  That’s three cents higher than a week ago an 13 cents lower than last month.  But gas prices are a lot lower than this time last year when the statewide average for regular was four-13 a gallon.