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Candy Sold at Major Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin Retailers Under Urgent Recall
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has upgraded a recall of nearly two dozen candies and snacks sold at major retailers; ones that are very prominent in Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin. This is an urgent recall, for the products in question can cause serious illness, and in rare cases, death.
2024 bonus antlerless deer harvest authorizations available
WISCONSIN – Bonus antlerless harvest authorizations for the 2024 gun deer season are available for purchase. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) last week announced that the harvest authorizations, formerly known as tags, can be purchased online through the Go Wild license portal (www.gowild.wi.gov/) and at license sales locations.
Confusion over new district leads to ballot error in Wisconsin primary
A local election clerk failed to realize that Wisconsin's new legislative maps moved a rural town into a new district, leading to an administrative error that could disenfranchise scores of voters in a Republican state Assembly primary race.The new maps shifted Summit, a town of about 1,000 people in Douglas County in far northern Wisconsin, out of the 73rd Assembly District and into the 74th District. But voters in Summit received ballots for the primary in the 73rd rather than the primary in the 74th, city clerk Kaci Jo Lundgren said in a news release issued Tuesday afternoon.Democrat Angela Stroud...
Wisconsin Couple Celebrates Engagement with Kwik Trip-Themed Photoshoot
If you've never been to a Kwik Trip, you might find people's love for the convenience store a little strange. But there's a reason it's seen as the best gas station in the country. They offer great customer service and sell high-quality products, many of which are made at their La Crosse facility and delivered fresh to each store every day.
The Hottest City in Wisconsin Is…
Even though summer is winding down here in the Midwest, that doesn't mean that we aren't expected to see some more incredibly hot days. The summer of 2024 has been one of the hottest summers on record for around a hundred cities across the country, according to a report from CNN.
Wild Ones to host Save Our Songbirds speaker
ANTIGO — The Northwoods Gateway Chapter of Wild Ones will host a free presentation on protecting endangered songbirds tonight, Aug. 14, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Pollinator Garden near 2nd Ave. alongside the Johnson Electric Coil Company. The presentation will be given by Lisa Gaumnitz, a former public information officer for the Wisconsin DNR that now coordinates SOS Save Our Songbirds, an initiative by the Wisconsin Bird Conservation Partnership to raise awareness about native birds endangered in Wisconsin. ...
Wisconsin body camera rules vary too widely
Body cameras have become standard equipment for most police departments and there are some parameters for how they are to be used. But those parameters vary widely. In Wisconsin, the Legislature passed a law that regulates the use of body cameras. It basically says every police department should have policies in place for the use of body cameras. There are rules on how long the video footage is to be retained, and there are restrictions about releasing footage that shows minors or victims of violent crime. But there don’t seem to be rules that stipulate that police body camera footage is public record. It is generally assumed that body cam video is covered by the state’s open records laws, and therefore are presumed public record, with limited exception. But in Brookfield, a young teen was arrested, accused of starting a fire on railroad tracks then running from police. The body camera footage would show he wasn’t guilty of starting the fire, and didn’t know the person telling him to stop was an officer, because the officer didn’t identify himself. The boy’s mother was denied the ability to see the officer’s body cam footage, with the city saying it doesn’t release footage involving juveniles. He ended up pleading guilty to something he didn’t do. Our lawmakers, whenever they get back to work in Madison, should tighten the wording of the laws regulating body cameras so that each police department in Wisconsin doesn’t have its own rules, and so an innocent teen doesn’t have to plead guilty even though recorded footage would have exonerated him.
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