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Weekend EF-1 tornado does damage in Grant County

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The National Weather Service has confirms damaging tornadoes in southwestern Wisconsin and northeastern Iowa on Saturday. Early reports indicate the tornado was an E-F-1 with maximum sustained winds of 100 miles-an-hour.

It was on the ground for almost seven miles in Grant County. The storm track was about a mile north of Potosi and damage was done to a home, several farms and trees, with small hail left covering the ground after it passed.

Green Bay files lawsuit to move April 7 election and make it vote-by-mail

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Uncertainty over next month’s election in Wisconsin is headed for court. The city of Green Bay on Tuesday filed a lawsuit to move the April 7th election and make it vote-by-mail only.

The city contends that moving ahead with the election will put people at risk, and wants a judge to move the deadline for voter registration to May 1st. The lawsuit asks to give local election managers til June 2nd to count the ballots.

Governor Tony Evers said Tuesday he is still looking at what to do about the election. But he continues to say voting early or voting by mail is the best bet.

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Charges filed in 2008 murder of UW student Brittany Zimmerman

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Brittany Zimmerman

Criminal charges were filed filed Friday in the murder of UW-Madison student Brittany Zimmermann. Interim Madison Police Chief Vic Wahl said 53-year-old David A. Kahl was charged in Dane County Circuit Court with first-degree intentional homicide.

Zimmerman’s murder took place on April 2, 2008 in her downtown Madison apartment. The 21-year-old Marshfield native was majoring in Medical Microbiology and Immunology.

Zimmermann’s killing “shook the Madison community and devastated her family, friends and hometown,” police said in a statement sent Friday.

Kahl, currently in prison on an unrelated charge, had been identified years ago as someone going door to door the day of Brittany’s murder, asking for money. A sample of Zimmerman’s clothing also had a DNA hit linked to Kahl.

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Watch out for coronavirus scams

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With the coronavirus comes coronavirus scams. The Wisconsin Division of Consumer Protection says it’s getting calls from people who’ve gotten e-mails from scam artists trying to take advantage.

The most common scam tries to steal your personal information. Consumer Protection also says there are phony websites that purport to have a cure for the virus, and a number of phony charities have popped-up as well. Consumer Protection officials say if you get an unsolicited e-mail about the coronavirus, just delete it.

‘Grand Princess’ cruise ship passengers safely home

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Twenty-nine Wisconsin residents who were aboard a cruise ship are safely back home. A press release from Governor Tony Evers office said the Grand Princes passengers were safely transported back to Wisconsin late Sunday night.

Soldiers and airmen from the Wisconsin National Guard were waiting to transport them back to their homes for self-quarantine. Two passengers chose to remain in quarantine in Texas, citing personal reasons. State officials are also working to return home seven Wisconsin passengers who remain in HHS custody in California.

As of Monday, none of the returning passengers have tested positive for COVID-19 and all are asymptomatic. They’ll follow protocols and continue to self-quarantine for 14-days.

State reaches agreement with Sprint and T-Mobile meger

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The state of Wisconsin has struck an agreement with Sprint and T-Mobile over their merger. T-Mobile customer plans will continue for at least two more years.

The agreement requires the newly-merged company to provide phone and internet plans tailored to low-income Wisconsin families. Josh Kaul was one of several state attorneys general who tried to stop T-Mobile and Sprint from merging in the first place. A judge ruled against the AG’s last month.

Carlie Beaudin’s killer will spend life in mental hospital

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The man who beat a nurse to death in Milwaukee last year will spend the rest of his life in a mental hospital. A judge sentenced Kenneth Freeman Thursday to a life sentence for Carlie Beaudin’s death.

Freeman was originally declared unfit for trial, but a jury eventually found him not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. He brutally beat Beaudin in January of last year and left her body in a parking garage at Milwaukee’s Froedert Hospital. Freeman’s commitment will last the rest of his life.

Wisconsin National Guard will transport 37 state residents on board cruise ship

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The Wisconsin National Guard has been mobilized to transport 37 state residents who are on board a cruise ship currently docked in Oakland.

Brigadier General Joane Mathews said at a news conference Thursday the National Guard received the request to mobilize from the Department of Health Services Wednesday. Up to 30 soldiers and airmen will serve as drivers to transport the 37 citizens back to their homes for self-isolation.

The flight carrying those 37 Wisconsinites from the Grand Princess will land at a location still to be determined, Mathews said. At that point they will be greeted by DHS personnel and National Guard drivers, who will transport them back home.

“This is not a security mission, and our soldiers and airmen will not be armed,” Mathews said. “They are merely providing the manpower and drivers necessary to assist DHS in getting these citizens home safely and efficiently.”

State basketball tournaments cancelled

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The WIAA has canceled all remaining games of the girls state basketball tournament, as well as boys sectional finals and the boys state tournament in response to the evolving concerns over the spread of COVID-19.

WIAA Executive Director Dave Anderson said there was no choice.

“I want the student-athletes and their coaches to know that your school leaders, the WIAA Executive Staff, all our committees and the Board of Control have done everything imaginable to try to provide and preserve these opportunities for you. However, we want and need to be responsible in helping the global and state efforts to stem the tide and spread of this virus.”

Thursday, the WIAA was informed the Kohl Center would not be available for the state boys basketball tournament scheduled for March 19-21.

Tickets for the WIAA girls and boys state basketball tournaments will be refunded in full. Please allow staff time to make these refunds and contact the WIAA office only if you do not see a refund to your account within two weeks of the tournament.

Any tickets purchased at school will be refunded by your school and not the Resch Center or the WIAA.

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Elections Commission reports at least two cases of voter fraud

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The Wisconsin Elections Commission is reporting at least two cases of voter fraud. Commissioners Wednesday sent the cases to prosecutors in Vilas and Oneida counties.

In the Vilas county case, the Commission says someone voted twice on Election Day in 2016. The Oneida County case accuses a voter of intentionally registering to vote in the wrong community, then voting in 2017. The Commission also flagged 43 cases where it looks like people voted in Wisconsin and another state.