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 There’s no new billionaire in Wisconsin. Lottery managers say a man in Maine won Friday’s Mega-Millions drawing. The winning ticket is worth one-point-three billion-dollars. That comes to about 724 million-dollars in cash, before taxes. The winning numbers, just in case you want to know if you won anything, were 30, 43, 45, 46, 61, and gold Mega Ball 14.

Milwaukee’s National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum is marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day in its own way. The Museum is offering a talking MLK bobblehead. The bobblehead has King behind the podium, and it has several recorded clips of his famous I Have a Dream speech. You can order the bobblehead, starting today, at the Museum’s online store. But you will likely have to wait until April for it to be delivered.

 A man has been arrested in Columbia County for stealing a car that had a woman sleeping in the back seat.  The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office says they got a call early Saturday from a woman who claimed she was being driven at high speed by a man who wouldn’t let her out.  She told authorities that she and her family had been parked at a truck stop in Dekorra and that her family went inside while she slept in

The town of New Glarus is celebrating its Swiss heritage by performing an ancient ritual called Silvesterchlausen.  The Swiss New Year’s celebration was performed Saturday afternoon in downtown New Glarus, and featured local citizens wearing tree costumes yodeling and playing cowbells.  The president of the Swiss Center of North America said the goal of the event was to preserve the area’s Swiss cultural heritage and share their traditions with the people of Wisconsin.  Event organizers said it was the first time

Hello. Welcome to your weekend. We are glad you are with us and hope your 2023 is starting off well. Sometimes the week is busy, stressful, or just plain hard! That’s why on Saturday mornings we like to take a softer approach. We call it a “scroll down memory lane.” We take a simple look back at events that happened on this day in history before heading out into this new day to make history again. So, grab your favoring

A contractor accused of scamming dozens of southern Wisconsin homeowners out of thousands of dollars has been arrested.  Tyler Hansen was arrested Friday and booked into the Columbia County Jail in Portage.  The 51-year-old Hansen is charged in Dane and Monroe counties on accusations that he and his contracting companies signed contracts for work but never finished the jobs.  He’s expected to face similar charges in Columbia County.

 A proposed flat income tax is now before the State Senate and Governor Tony Evers opposes it.  Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu introduced the three-point-five percent income tax proposal on Friday.  LeMahieu’s bill would phase in the flat tax by 2026, ending the current progressive income tax rates that range from three-point-54 percent to seven-point-65 percent.  Evers tweeted on Friday that tax relief should be targeted to the middle class to, as he put it, “give working families a little

A new state report says adolescents in Wisconsin are reporting more thoughts of suicide and feelings of depression and anxiety.  The report released Friday by the state’s Office of Children’s Mental Health found that near 34-percent of students said they feel sad and hopeless almost every day.  On the positive side, the report said bullying has decreased slightly, the teen birth rate has dropped, and the number of school social workers, counselors, and psychologists has increased. 

Five Wisconsin non-profits including one from Madison are getting grants from the Green Bay Packers.  Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy says the non-profits are getting 50-thousand dollar social justice grants.  The Madison non-profit is the Wisconsin Equal Justice Fund Inc., which supports several charities.  The Packers have been giving away grants to non-profits for the last five years.

A nationwide march in support of abortion rights is coming to Madison later this month.  The National Women’s March on Madison will take place on the State Street steps of the Wisconsin Capitol on January 22nd.  Organizers say the goal is get Wisconsin leaders to overturn the state’s ban on abortions.