Wisconsin News and Sports
With two outs and nobody on in the 8th inning for the Chicago Cubs, it appeared the Milwaukee Brewers 3-run lead was going to hold and theseries would be even at a game apiece. That’s when things went south.
LaTroy Hawkins allowed a single, two walks and then two more singles and the Cubs turned the deficit in to a 7-6 win. It’s the walks that are most upsetting to Hawkins.
AUDIO: LaTroy Hawkins is upset about walks :07 [Read more...]
Fire in the sky overnight, across much of Wisconsin. A lot of people are wondering about the loud boom they heard and the Flashing light they saw last night in the Tri-State area (Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois). “Basically, we had a meteor come in . . . to the atmosphere at approximately 10:00 last night,” says Meterologist Jeff Boyne with the National Weather Service in La Crosse. [Read more...]
In the WIAC, #21 UW-Stevens Point took three games from UW-Oshkosh on Wednesday at Tiedemann Field in Oshkosh.
The Pointers and Titans resumed a suspended game from April 7 in the 5th inning and cruised to a 15-1 win over the Titans. The Pointers scored in every inning but the sixth.
The Pointers won both ends of the regularly scheduled double-header, winning by scores of 11-6 and 14-4. Stevens Point improved to 15-6 overall and 6-2 in the WIAC. Oshkosh is 10-12 overall, 3-5 in league play.
Elsewhere in the WIAC on Wednesday,
UW-Whitewater 12, UW-Platteville 2
UW-Platteville 8, UW-Whitewater 4
UW-Stout 5, UW-La Crosse 4
UW-Stout 10, UW-La Crosse 9
State Attorney General JB Van Hollen says we could see more fraud if the legislature passes a bill to make it easier for voters to register and cast ballots. People would automatically be registered-to-vote when they apply for driver’s licenses. Absentee voting could be done at more locations.
Public access to 911 audio is among the bills being taken up by the Assembly today. Supporters say victims’ families should be protected from hearing those kinds on calls on radio and TV. An open government advocate believes there is no need for such a law.
“I think that is a dramatic over reaction of the problem if it is indeed a problem,” says Bill Lueders, President of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council.
He says broadcasters are already acting responsibly in deciding whether to air the audio, citing a recent survey that shows most news rooms have policies regarding this.
Bill Lueders (:30)
State Representative Amy Sue Vruwink (D-Milladore) insists she is not trying to limit media access to the 911 calls as transcripts would still be available under her bill.
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