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Wisconsin now has some of the highest gas prices in the Midwest.  Triple-A says the statewide average is three dollars and 98-cents a gallon, up five-cents from this time last week.  Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan are the only Midwest states where gas is more expensive.  The average in Madison is over four dollars at four-oh-five a gallon.

Madison is one of the top-15 safest cities in the country.  WalletHub ranks Madison 13th compared to the 182 largest cities in the country based on over three dozen safety indicators.  WalletHub says Madison ranks 15th for home and community safety but just 89th for natural disaster risk.  WalletHub says the safest city in the U.S. is Columbia, Maryland and the least safe is St. Louis, Missouri.

Milwaukee Police say they’ve taken cars from at least 100 reckless drivers. The city announced the numbers from the first few months of its crackdown on reckless driving. Police say they’ve towed over 100 cars and made six arrests. Half of the cars towed were taken from drivers who don’t own those cars. Milwaukee’s mayor announced the towing program earlier this year in an attempt to cut down on the number of reckless drivers and crashes in Milwaukee. Anyone caught

On Saturday, October 8, 2022, at 9:15 a.m., the Barron County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call of a traffic accident on Hwy 53 just south of Rice Lake. Deputies from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department along with the Cameron Fire Department, LMC Ambulance, Life Link Helicopter and WI State Patrol all responded to the scene. Initial investigation shows a truck driven by John Baier, 79 of Arkansaw, WI, was travelling south on Hwy 53 when he lost control and

On October 9, 2022, at 6:02 p.m., the Barron County Dispatch Center received a 911 call reporting a UTV crash that had occurred in the Village of Prairie Farm and the UTV operator was attempting to load an unconscious male back into a UTV but was stopped by citizens at the scene. Deputies from the Barron County Sheriff’s Department along with the Dallas Ambulance, Mayo Barron Ambulance, Clear Lake Ambulance, Prairie Farm Fire Department, Life Link III Helicopter and the

The sheriff in Eau Claire is looking into how a woman ended-up being shot by an arrow over the weekend. The woman called 9-1-1 after being hit with an arrow in the Town of Washington. Investigators are not saying who shot her, or what she was doing when she was shot. The sheriff’s office says she is expected to live, and says there is no threat to the community. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE FROM AUTHORTITES.

 We could get our first look at the Waukesha Christmas Parade suspect’s defense strategy.  The judge in the case gave Darrell Brooks Jr. til the end of the day today to produce his witness list. Brooks is acting as his own lawyer, and didn’t offer an opening statement. It’s not clear what kind of defense he will offer.  He has been erratic and disruptive each day of the trial so far.  Prosecutors began with witnesses last week, they are expected

 There is a push for an ethics commission for the Eau Claire County Board.  Supervisor Mark Beckfield says he wants an independent panel to be able to look into issues on the county board without “bias or political ideology.”  He is pushing the idea after a change on how the county adopted its latest budget, he says supervisors were shut-out from asking questions. Supervisor Jerry Wilkie says an ethics commission could also help get some answers about the years-long investigation

Some people enrolled in Medicaid in Wisconsin may have had their personal information stolen.  The state’s Department of Health Services on Friday said over 12 thousand people had their information exposed online.  It wasn’t a hack.  DHS said the information was posted online after a meeting in April of last year.  That information included the first and last name, date of birth, gender, county location, Wisconsin Medicaid member ID number, and social security number of people enrolled in Medicaid in the state.  DHS took

Wisconsin’s attorney general is telling voters what he considers intimidation or threatening as we inch closer to Election Day.  The state’s Department of Justice on Friday said that verbal threats of violence, confronting voters or election officials while wearing military-style or official-looking uniforms, brandishing or displaying firearms in an intimidating or threatening manner in or near a polling place, aggressively approaching voters’ cars or writing down license plate numbers, following voters to, from or within polling places, appearing to patrol