SPORTSCAST – Friday, Sept. 6, 2024
Today’s sportscast.
AM NEWSCAST – Friday, Sept. 6, 2024
This morning’s top stories from the Northwest Wisconsin News Center: — The rising number of fatal ATV and UTV crashes are preventable, says the DNR; — Western Wisconsin’s Dairland Power Cooperative will receive 580 million dollars in federal grants; — A benefit is this weekend for a young girl battling a rare heart condition; —…
Alethea Frisinger
Alethea Frisinger, 22, of Cameron, passed away on September 1. She is survived by her mother, Robin Frisinger; and brother, Ethan Frisinger. The service for Alethea Frisinger will be held at Raush & Steel Funeral Chapel, in Barron, on Saturday at 1 p.m. Visitation is from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday at the…
FUNERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS – Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024
Today’s funeral announcements.
SPORTSCAST – Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024
Today’s sportscast.
Gun found at Chippewa Falls school
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (WRN) — An unloaded gun was found in a student’s backpack at Chippewa Falls Middle School this week. The cased and unloaded gun was found in a student’s bag on Wednesday. The student told staff they accidentally grabbed a parent’s backpack instead of their own when getting out of the car at…
Biden promotes administration’s rural electrification funding in Wisconsin
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden returns to southwest Wisconsin to make good on his promise to provide new investments in rural electrification and other infrastructure. Biden will be in Westby on Thursday to announce $7.3 billion in investments for 16 cooperatives that will provide electricity for rural areas across 23 states. The intent is…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sues to remove himself from Wisconsin’s presidential ballot
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin trying to get his name removed from the battleground state’s presidential ballot after the state elections commission voted to keep him on it. Kennedy suspended his campaign in August and endorsed Republican candidate Donald Trump. Kennedy also filed a lawsuit in…
A push to legalize medical marijuana in Wisconsin begins
MADISON, Wis. (WRN) — Tribal advocates were at the State Capitol Tuesday to introduce a campaign called Wisconsin Wellness to promote the medicinal uses of cannabis. Rob Pero is the founder of a Native American hemp company in Cambridge named Canndigenous. “We’ve been sort of stuck in the middle of Prohibition Island here between these…
Evers continues annual Back to School tour
MADISON, Wis. (WRN) — With his annual Back-To-School Tour underway, Governor Tony Evers is hopeful a number of school districts across the state can get local referendums passed. “Frankly, some of those referendum are just getting money so that they can keep the doors open. And to me, that’s not a good thing,” Evers said.…