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There is a new type of license plate in Wisconsin. The DMV yesterday said new fleet license plates are now available. The plates are only available to companies with at least 10 or more standard or light-truck vehicles, and must be registered as fleet vehicles with the state. There’s an extra eight-dollar and 50-cent charge for the fleet plates, in addition to the standard costs, but fleet plates only need to be registered once. The new plates look the same, but

Folks who used TurboTax to file their income taxes a couple of years ago can expect a check from the state of Wisconsin. Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday said Wisconsin will get just over two-point-four million-dollars from the 141 million-dollar multistate settlement with TurboTax. More than 81 thousand people in Wisconsin can claim a piece of the settlement. That means the checks will be worth about 30 dollars. You are eligible for your refund if you paid TurboTax to file your taxes in 2016, 2017,

Eau Claire Fire Department was dispatched to a report of a home explosion 1117 E Tyler Ave shortly after 1pm. Engine 2 was first to arrive on scene to find the windows of a 1-story wood framed residence blown out with no smoke or fire visible. Engine 2 reported occupants were out of the structure that were quickly attended to by Medic 10 and released on scene. Engine 2 and Engine 6 quickly preformed searches of the structure and reported

We now know the cause of death of Ronald Henry, the man found dead in Grant County after going missing for three months.  The Grant County Sheriff’s Office says Henry died from hypothermia and his death was accidental.  Henry went missing from a farmhouse in Platteville on December 5th and was found dead about a mile south of there on March 5th.  The sheriff’s office says methamphetamine was also a contributing factor to his death.

The Brewers are again changing their alcohol sales policy at American Family Field.  It’s been one month since the Brewers decided to extend the deadline to buy alcohol into the eighth inning, but today team spokesperson Tyler Barnes told MLB-dot-com they’re moving the deadline back to the seventh.  Barnes says they haven’t had any issues but that extending the deadline didn’t strongly affect sales numbers.

Madison Area Crime Stoppers is out with a warning about a new scam involving artificial intelligence.  Crime Stoppers says scammers are using AI to mimic familiar voices such as people’s family members to get them to send money.

ABOVE PHOTO: David Sternisha, right, a shipping supervisor at Ellsworth Creamery, is taking a Spanish class offered by his organization to help employees communicate on the job. Nick Streble dug into the recesses of his brain to remember the Spanish he had been taught years ago. “This started with a need that originated here in Ellsworth,” As director of operations in the New London plant of Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery, he’s been known to break out a few general phrases to

There are a lot of unanswered questions today after a Wisconsin sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed in the line of duty.  Marcia Krogseng is showing her support for the fallen deputy as the community mourns in the town of Hudson — 20 miles east of St. Paul. Twenty-nine-year-old deputy Kaitie Leising was making a drunk driving stop Saturday night when investigators say the man she’d stopped shot her.  She fired back, but missed.  Other officers later found the suspect dead of

It was a weekend send off for a handful of Wisconsin citizen soldiers. Eight members of the 112th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment are heading off for a deployment to eastern Europe. No one is saying exactly where the troops will be going, but commanders say they will be ‘telling the stories of the locals in the region.’ The guard says the 112th will be gone for about a year. The 112th last deployed back in 2018.

 A Janesville cross country coach is looking at charges after girls at Craig High School say they found a camera in their locker room. Police arrested 38-year-old Brian Kitzman after getting a tip on Friday. Kitzman is an assistant cross country coach at the school, but did not teach there. He’s now looking at tentative child pornography charges. Janesville Police and local school leaders have scheduled a news conference for later today to provide some more answers in the case.