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A Canadian candy company is searching for a professional taste tester.  An Ontario-based company called Candy Funhouse is looking for what it describes as the world’s first chief candy officer.  The role involves taste testing roughly 35-hundred products each month and comes with a salary of up to 100-thousand dollars per year.  The job listing states applicants must have an “obvious” love for sugar.  The taste tester will be able to work from home or in-person in Newark, New Jersey,

A Chippewa Falls man lost his life in a motorcycle crash. It was on Saturday, July 30th, a bit before 5 in the evening when the Wisconsin State Patrol and the Chippewa County Sheriffs Department responded to a single motorcycle crash on CTH X near 210th Street in Chippewa County. Upon arrival, it was discovered the operator of the motorcycle, 64 year old Randy Stewart, of Chippewa Falls, was deceased. The initial investigation indicates the motorcycle traveled off the road,

Hello. We are glad you are here. Thanks for taking time to stop by and check in. We know the days can get busy, the week’s sometimes feel long. Which is why we like to slow it down a bit on the weekend and take a “scroll down memory lane.” It’s a simple look back at events that happened on this day in history before we head out into a new day and make more memories along the way. So,

The Illinois Lottery says a billion-dollar Mega Millions ticket was sold at a convenience store near Chicago.   Lottery officials say the two-dollar ticket was purchased at a Speedway filling station in Des Plains that matched all six numbers in Friday night’s drawing.  The jackpot is worth an estimated one-point- three billion dollars before taxes, making it the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot ever.

Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes is officially endorsed for his U.S. Senate run by Wisconsin Democrats.  The state’s Democratic Party endorsed Barnes yesterday.  Party Chair Ben Wikler says Barnes “has won the support of working people in every corner of this state.”  The primary election is Tuesday, August 9th.

The St. Croix County Sheriff’s office is investigating a deadly stabbing.  The Sheriff’s office says several young adults were tubing on the Apple River yesterday afternoon when a 52-year old suspect who was also tubing in a separate group attacked them.  A 17-year old male from Minnesota died from stab wounds while two other males and a female in their 20s suffered stab wounds and are in critical condition.  Sheriff Scott Knudson says the suspect is in custody.

A 20-year old woman is in serious condition after getting thrown from a horse in Dodge County.  The incident happened Friday evening at a farm in Lowell.  The injured woman was airlifted to UW Hospital in serious condition after her mother found her lying in a field.  There is no word yet on an update of the victim’s condition.

Voting equipment testing is underway around Wisconsin.  The Wisconsin Elections Commission says the public can weigh-in on the use of the electronic equipment which will be in place for the August 9th primaries.  Public testing is by law and must take place at least ten-days before each election in which the devices will be in use.

Yet another Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin drops out of the race.  Today Wisconsin Treasurer Sarah Godlewski announced the end of her campaign and endorsed Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes in the race.  Godlewski is the the third Democratic senate candidate to drop out this week, making Barnes the only well-known candidate left in the race.

Wisconsin gas prices continue to drop further below four dollars a gallon heading into the weekend.  According to Triple-A, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded in Wisconsin is three dollars and 94 cents, down two cents overnight and down nearly 20 cents from this time last week.  In Madison the average is three-83 a gallon, down 13 cents from last week.