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• Miss Wisconsin Mandi Genord wins awards at 2025 Miss America competition January 2, 2025
  ORLANDO, Fla. – Wisconsin’s bid for back-to-back Miss America crowns gained momentum Thursday evening as Mandi Genord captured two preliminary awards, including a fitness honor and leadership recognition, in the nation’s largest scholarship competition for women. Genord, 22, of Beaver Dam, was also named an American Heart Association Go Red For Women Leadership award winner. […]
  Denise Lockwood
• Photo gallery: Polar Plunge 2025 starts the new year on an invigorating and chilly note January 1, 2025
  RACINE, WI — The 35th annual Splash and Dash New Year’s Day polar plunge was once again a huge success despite the frigid temperatures. Brave souls jumped into Lake Michigan, which measured a bone-chilling temperature of just under 40 degrees in air that felt more like nine degrees than the 29 degrees most saw on […]
  Heather Asiyanbi and Mark Hertzberg
• Drunk driving crash leads to 3 felony charges for Milwaukee man and multiple injuries for three, including two children December 31, 2024
  CALEDONIA, WI — A Milwaukee man faces multiple felony charges after allegedly causing a drunk driving crash in Caledonia that injured three people, including two children. Martin Perez Rodriguez, 54, was charged with three counts of operating while intoxicated, causing injury (second and subsequent offense) and three counts of hit and run causing injury. If […]
  Denise Lockwood
• Racine County sees high levels of respiratory illnesses: The signs to watch for and how to treat them December 31, 2024
  RACINE, WI — Racine County and the state in a whole is experiencing high levels of respiratory illnesses as 2024 draws to a close, with multiple viruses circulating simultaneously throughout the state, according to the latest Wisconsin Department of Health Services report. The surveillance report for the week ending Dec. 21 shows rhinovirus/enterovirus as the […]
  Denise Lockwood
• Border arrests remain steady in December 2024, ending Biden’s term at lowest level December 31, 2024
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in December are little changed from a month earlier, a U.S. official said Monday, hovering near the lowest levels since July 2020 and indicating that an anticipated surge ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration as president hasn’t happened. There were about 44,000 arrests during December as […]
  Associated Press