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Milwaukee is getting some love from National Geographic.  NatGeo yesterday said Milwaukee is on the list of its Best Travel Cities for 2023.  There’s not really a ranking, just a list of places that visitors should check-out.  Milwaukee joins the Scottish Highlands, Charleston, South Carolina, New Zealand, Botswana, and several other places on the Best Travel Cities for 2023 list which you can see with a CLICK HERE.

 The young man who stole the head off a State Capitol statue during Madison’s violent summer of 2020 is not going to prison.  A judge yesterday sentenced 36-year-old Rodney Clendening to probation instead.  Clendening pleaded guilty to stealing the head from the Hans Christian Heg statue.  He was originally facing felony charges, but prosecutors allowed him to plead to a misdemeanor count of theft.  His probation is supposed to last a year, but the judge said it can end earlier

Madison Police are looking for the third suspect in a murder from back in the summer.  Investigators yesterday said they have an arrest warrant for 29-year-old Charvis Blue.  He is the latest suspect to be named in the July murder of an 18-year-old on Madison’s northeast side.  Two other people are currently in jail in the case, they were arrested earlier this year.  Madison Police don’t know where Blue is, they are hoping someone helps them find him.

Winter graduates at UW-Madison will get some final words from the host of the Manitowoc Minute.  Charlie Berens will be the winter commencement speaker this year.  Berens started with his online Manitowoc Minute, but has become an author, YouTuber and stand-up comedian.  Berens is a UW-Madison alum.  The school says he is a cultural ambassador for the state.

Darrell Brooks Jr. will spend the rest of his life in prison. A jury yesterday convicted him of the attack at Waukesha’s Christmas Parade last November. The jury found him guilty on all 76 counts, including six counts of first degree homicide. It took the jury about two-and-a-half hours yesterday to reach their verdict. Brooks is due back in court next week to begin the sentencing phase of the trial. He is guaranteed a life sentence. In reaction after that

Prosecutors are dropping the threat charges against a man who said he was going to shoot-up Carson Park last Fourth of July.  The Eau Claire County District Attorney’s Office yesterday said pursuing a terroristic threat case against Joshua Cheek would not be “in the interest of justice.”  Cheek made threats against Carson Park’s celebration and against the group home where he lives during an episode over the summer.  The D.A. says he is instead focusing on the criminal damage to

Rescuers in La Crosse had to use their ropes and their know-how to get an injured man off of a bluff yesterday.  The man fell while riding his bike on a trail in Hixon Forest.  Crews had to rappel down the bluff yesterday evening.  The man was taken to a local clinic to be checked-out.  La Crosse firefighters say it took about 12 rescuers to get the man off the bluff.

 Voters in one Barron County township are being asked to decide if they want to go wet.  The Town of Stanfold is asking voters whether they want to allow for alcohol to be sold inside the town’s limits.  Stanfold is one of the few remaining dry towns in Wisconsin.  The owners of a local orchard, Licks Orchard, Music, and Gifts, want to open a tasting room for their wine.  Some neighbors don’t want to allow for alcohol sales because they don’t

 Another judge has said absentee ballots must be properly, and completely filled-out in order to be counted on Election Day.  A Dane County judge yesterday refused to issue a temporary restraining order that would have stopped local election clerks from rejecting incomplete absentee ballots.  The issue continues to be absentee ballot witness addresses.  The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin wanted a judge to give clerks some wiggle-room on those addresses.  State law is clear that voters and their witnesses must put

The state of Wisconsin is hitting a former coronavirus testing center with a 22-thousand-dollar fine for false advertising.  The Center for COVID Control said it could get people a PCR test within two days.  But many people said they either got their tests late, or never got a test at all.  The state’s Department of Ag and Consumer Protection announced the fine yesterday.  The FBI raided the Center for COVID Control’s national office back in January as part of a much larger