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A Madison man will spend three-and-a-half years in federal prison after being found guilty of stealing from stores in other states.  The man was indicted over two years ago, accused of stealing from stores in seven states and Wisconsin back in 2019.  He was convicted of stealing over five-thousand dollars worth of items after a four-day trial that ended this week.

On the other side of halloween we are no longer planning the costumes or sharing scary tales, but for this week’s Friday Feel Good we have quite a TAIL to tell, and it involves making a splash with mermaids.  We dive into the waters off Califorina  as scuba diver Javier Claramunt was diving off the coast of Catalina Island in California and lost consciousness.   To his good fortune, a group of women dressed up as mermaids rescued him.  Apparently the “mermaids” were

One Dane County’s more infamous murder cases will be on national television this weekend. CBS’ 48 Hours will run an episode on the Halderson murders. Chandler Halderson was convicted early this year for the 2021 murders of his parents. Pieces of their bodies were found at the family’s cabin. He’s now serving a life sentence. The 48 Hours episode features interviews with people involved in the case, including a local TV reporter. You can watch the Halderson episode tomorrow night.

It was a thank you dance for the Dancing Grannies. Milwaukee’s group of grandmas performed for the doctors and nurses at Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center yesterday. That was the hospital that treated members of the Dancing Grannies after they were hurt in last year’s attack at the Waukesha Christmas Parade. One of the grannies, Betty Streng, was seriously hurt. She says the team at St. Luke’s saved her life.

We have some more answers about last winter’s drowning death of a UW-La Crosse student who was missing for weeks. The medical examiner in La Crosse yesterday said 25-year-old Hamud Faal had a very high level of alcohol in his system when he drowned in the Mississippi River back in February. Fall, who graduated from Sun Prairie High School, was missing until firefighters found his body in the Mississippi River in March.

The DNR is reminding hunters about safety ahead of this month’s deer season. Gun season opens in Wisconsin on November 19th. The DNR yesterday said hunters need to check their gear, and make sure everything is working and is safe. There is a focus again this year on harness safety. The state is also reminding hunters about new baiting regulations.

Miller Lite is selling a Christmas tree stand that doubles as a beer keg. It’s actually just a table that can hold a Christmas tree on top and has enough room for a keg underneath. It’s about 50 bucks and goes on sale next week. Miller Lite says it is a limited edition.

Milwaukee’s deputy elections director is out of a job and under investigation in a ballot fraud case. Milwaukee’s mayor yesterday said he fired Milwaukee Election Commission Deputy Director Kimberly Zapata after she admitted that she sent three fake military ballots to a Republican state representative. The mayor says charges are likely coming in the case. Milwaukee’s elections boss said Zapata was forthcoming about what she did, and hinted that she was making a point about a vulnerability in Wisconsin’s MyVote system.

Fiserv’s move to Milwaukee will mean a return to work for more than half its employees. The Business Journal is reporting that Fiserv will be required to have 60 percent of its people working in-person in order to qualify for seven million-dollars in incentives from the city of Milwaukee. Fiserv announced last month that it plans to move from its current headquarters in Brookfield to a new headquarters in downtown Milwaukee. A company spokesman says they currently have a hybrid

Northwestern Wisconsin Community Network has been selected as one of just 22 rural regions  nationwide added to the Rural Partners Network (RPN). RPN is an all-of-government program that partners with rural  people to help them access resources and funding to create local jobs, build infrastructure, and support long-term  economic stability on their own terms.  The Northwestern Wisconsin Community Network includes Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, and Pepin  counties.  RPN Community Networks receive on-the-ground, full-time support from federal staff assigned