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Wisconsin lawmakers are considering a plan that would speed-up sexual assault kit testing at the state crime lab. The legislation, which is up for a hearing today, would require the lab to begin work on sexual assault kits within five days of getting the kit, and finish the testing within 60 days. The idea comes after Wisconsin’s massive backlog of sexual assault kits a few years ago. Some of those kits sat on shelves for years. The backlog testing led to several

Here’s your chance to see some current and former Packer greats in Eau Claire. Tickets for the Packer Tailgate Tour are now on sale. The Bolton Refuge House will host this year’s event on April 11th. Aaron Jones, Elgton Jenkins, and Romeo Doubs are scheduled to be there, as are former players Haha Clinton-Dix, Eddie Lacy, and Davon House. And Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy. Tickets are 50 dollars, and you can buy them online.

Most of the best places to live in Wisconsin are in the Milwaukee suburbs, but the best place is a little further north.  The website Niche, which focuses on the top sports to live, work, and go to school, this week said Kohler is the best place to live in Wisconsin.  Kohler is in Sheboygan County, but most of the rest of the top spots are in Milwaukee or the WOW counties.  Brookfield is number two on Niche’s list, followed by Shorewood, Whitefish

Marquette’s Shaka Smart has picked-up another honor. The United States Basketball Writers Association yesterday named him the Henry W. Iba Award winner. The Iba Award is given to the best coach in the nation. Smart was already named Big East Coach of the Year, and he is a finalist for the Naismith Award, college basketball’s other coach of the year honor. The Naismith Award winner will be announced in two weeks.

Eggs-perience a fun-filled “pre-Easter” celebration at the Milwaukee County Zoo on Saturday, April 8, as Egg Day sponsored by Racine Danish Kringles makes an eggs-citing return for another year! From 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., enjoy Easter-themed activities — all included with Zoo admission unless otherwise noted. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO

The young man arrested after he was caught on video loading a pistol inside the library at UW-Milwaukee says he was simply there to get high. Prosecutors in Milwaukee say 25-year-old Elmo Daniels told them he had a gun, and pulled it out in the library. But he says he was just there to get high. Police arrested Daniels last week after he left the library. The D.A. says Daniels also admitted to sometimes sleeping at the library, and going

Prosecutors in Winnebago County are charging the son of the two people found murdered last weekend with their deaths. Erik Metzig was in court in Oshkosh for the first time yesterday. The sheriff’s office says he shot and killed his parents in their home in Wolf River on Saturday. Investigators say they found a journal in Erik Metzig’s room that detailed a plan to kill his parents and make it look like they disappeared. The D.A. says that’s why he

The candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court, as expected, disagreed entirely during their only debate yesterday. Liberal Judge Janet Protasiewicz and Dan Kelly met on the stage for their only time this campaign. Protasiewicz tried to paint Kelly as extreme on abortion, while Kelly hammered at Protasiewicz for light sentences for criminals and her politicization of the race for the high court. The race is being closely watched across the country, and is the most expensive ever. Reports have the price tag somewhere

The state is weighing-in against the plans to annex part of the town of Washington into Eau Claire.  The Department of Administration yesterday said the move is “not in the public’s interest.”  The ruling from the state comes after Eau Claire’s Plan Commission voted Monday night against the annexation as well.  A local developer has been trying for three years to build a new subdivision in Orchard Hills, despite opposition from neighbors.  City leaders are going to vote on the

Oktoberfest is a big money maker in La Crosse.  A new report from UW-Whitewater says the annual beer and brat fest is worth 26-million-dollars.  Researchers say that includes all of the money spent at Oktoberfest, the gas, hotel rooms, other food and of course beer that visitors buy each fall.  The report says a lot of the money goes to, or comes from local non-profits that then use the money raised for other good works.  A.J. Frels, executive director of