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A Madison student is saved from being scammed out of 30-thousand dollars.  Madison Police say the college student was bombarded with emails, calls and text messages from a scammer impersonating a Chinese police officer.  They claimed the student was involved in a criminal investigation and needed to pay 30-grand to resolve the situation.  Fortunately her bank raised concerns when she tried to send the money and blocked the transaction. 

 There are questions to answer about a woman’s death outside a Kenosha assisted living facility. Police found the 89-year-old woman outside the Parkside Manor last Monday morning. Investigators say her death is ‘related to the cold.’ Temperatures in Kenosha last Monday bottomed-out at eight degrees. Kenosha Police say they’ve sent the case to prosecutors for possible charges.

A young woman from western Wisconsin who’s serving a life sentence for stabbing a man to death back in 2018 wants a new trial. Ezra McCandless’ lawyers this week filed a motion for a new trial, ticking-off a laundry list of things they said were problematic with her first case. A jury in Dunn County convicted McCandless of stabbing her boyfriend, 24-year-old Alex Woodworth, to death during a fight four years ago. She’s serving a life sentence, but can ask for parole

The sheriff in Fond du Lac County says teamwork helped save a man who lost two fingers in his snowblower over the weekend. Deputies say the man from Alto was clearing a jam in his snowblower on Christmas Day when the blades chopped off two fingers. He called 911, but it took deputies and two snowplows to reach the man. His driveway was over 800 feet long, and buried in snow. It took about 15 minutes of plowing to clear

If you’re looking for something to do with your Christmas tree, try your local zoo. A number of zoos across the state say they will take Christmas trees and recycle them for the animals. Zookeepers at the zoo in Marshfield say animals love to eat, root around in, or scratch on the trees. Each zoo is different; but usually they’ll take trees so long as they are free of tinsel, fake snow, spray paint, and any other chemical that could

 Wisconsin had to hang-on, but the Badgers managed to get the win in the Guaranteed Rate Bowl in Phoenix last night. Wisconsin built a 17-point first half lead, before Oklahoma State came back in the second half. Wisconsin ended-up winning 24-17. The win was the first for new head coach Luke Fickell, and the last for out-going interim coach Jim Leonhard.

Things didn’t get better for flyers in Milwaukee yesterday. Mitchell Airport saw another 17 flights delayed yesterday, that’s about 15 percent of all flights out of the airport. Once again it was Southwest that canceled the most flights. The airline continues to struggle to get people across the country. FlightAware, which tracks cancellations and delays, says Southwest canceled over 25 hundred flights yesterday. There’s no word when Southwest will get back on track, but the company has said it could

Dozens of agencies that provide transportation in rural areas for seniors and people with disabilities will benefit from state and federal funding awarded today.  Governor Tony Evers says more than five-million-dollars will provide grants to strengthen Wisconsin’s network of support by improving the mobility of seniors and those with disabilities.  Agencies can put the funding towards operating budgets, the purchase of human service vehicles and mobility managers. 

Wisconsin has a new Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources.  Governor Evers today announced the appointment of Adam Payne to the position effective January 3rd.  Payne has spent the last two decades as the county administrator for Sheboygan County and was the executive director of the Land and Water Conservation Association prior to that.

Police agencies around Wisconsin are reminding residents to be careful disposing of boxes and other gift packaging in the trash.  Thieves are scoping out dumpsters and curbsides to see what electronics and items worth stealing Santa may have delivered.  Video game and game console boxes should be flattened and stacked for easier disposal.  Don’t leave boxes by a recycling bin but wait until recycle collection day to put them out.