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It’s getting more expensive to gas up as prices were at or above four dollars a gallon across much of Wisconsin, including the Milwaukee metro area on Friday.  Triple-A’s survey of stations showed the statewide average price for regular was three-94 a gallon, up nearly 50 cents a gallon since last week.  Online price monitor GasBuddy found prices as low as three-18 a gallon in Madison and as high as four-09 in Abbotsford. 

A Missouri man accused of killing two Wisconsin brothers from Shawano County pleads guilty in the case.  Garland Nelson pleaded guilty today to two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to two life terms in prison.  Nelson’s accused of killing Justin and Nicholas Diemel back in 2019 after they met him at his farm in Missouri to collect an over 200-thousand dollar debt.  Their bodies were later found in Nebraska.  Since Nelson pleaded guilty he avoids facing the death penalty.

The State of Wisconsin is joining a nationwide lawsuit against pesticide manufacturers, claiming they have a monopoly.  The Wisconsin Department of Justice says Syngenta and Corteva are accused of rewarding distributors for selling more of their products than generic brands.  Wisconsin is one of nine states in the lawsuit.

The cake is made, the gifts wrapped…but this birthday party doesn’t look like the ones we are used to.  For this week’s Friday Feel Good we unwarp a story about the gift that keeps on giving….gratitude.  A California man is celebrating his upcoming 30th birthday by performing 30 acts of kindness over the next year.  One of those acts includes giving $12,000 worth of school supplies to teachers in Oakland.    Bryan Tsiliacos says he was inspired to go on this journey after all of the generosity

The Democrat running for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin is facing new questions about some of his old tweets.  The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel yesterday reported on a story that found Mandela Barnes’ tweets about the 2016 presidential race and the 2017 shooting at a Congressional baseball practice.  Barnes called former President Trump a “Russian spy,” and said New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was “his president.”  He also tweeted that Louisiana Congressman Steve Scalise [[ skall-EESE ]] “took one for the team” when he

Chippewa County authorities are informing the public about a sex offender to be released into the community next week. William R Starck will be homeless once he is released on Tuesday, October 4th.  Date of Birth- 10-07-1983Male/WhiteHeight- 5’9”Weight- 220#Eyes- BlueHair- BrownDOC-ID 430347Address: Homeless (Chippewa County)Release Date: October 4th 2022Offense(s): Conviction Date- 03-07-20113 Counts of 3 rd Degree Sexual Assault 940.225(3) William R Starck as of his release date will return back to Chippewa County and at this time he does

Speeding leads to an OWI arrest for an Illinois man. 39 year old Jeffery L Presley from Lansing, IL has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 1st offense, with four children in the vehicle under the age of 16. On 9/29 at 11:39 PM, Troopers from the Wisconsin State Patrol, Eau Claire Post stopped a vehicle for 90 MPH in a 70 MPH zone at mile post 91

Prosecutors in Eau Claire are dismissing the charges against the man who threatened the city’s school board president, because he’s already in prison. A judge this week dismissed the case against 33-year-old Jeremy Hanson from California. Investigators say he threatened school board president Tim Nordin back in March over Eau Claire Schools’ policy on gender transitions. Hanson is serving time in federal prison for a similar threat in another case. Prosecutors here say there’s no need to move ahead with

Xcel Energy and the Red Cross have crews from Wisconsin down in the hurricane zone in Florida. The Red Cross says 15 volunteers shipped out this week, they will help with recovery efforts. Xcel says about 35 Wisconsin crew members are part of a larger team that is headed down to Florida to help restore power. Neither is saying how long they expect their team members to be in the hurricane zone.

 It’s the latest sign of just how much school kids in Wisconsin lost during the coronavirus.  The state’s Department of Public Instruction yesterday released the scores for Wisconsin’s standardized tests from last year, and they are not good.  Not even 40 percent of kids are proficient in reading, writing, or math.  While math scores increased a tiny bit, reading and writing scores fell.  To make matters worse, last year’s scores are well below the test scores from before the coronavirus shut down schools