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For WIRI and WFHR News, I'm Lisa Hale in Formulissa K. Today is going to be a hot one. The National Weather Service says it will be hot and humid through the Fox Valley Central Wisconsin and the Northeast Wisconsin region.
Heat indices are expected to reach triple digits and a heat advisory is in effect for most of the listening area.
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission is sharing some helpful tips with residents on keeping their homes cool while saving energy.
We've still got about six weeks of summer and of course that means hot weather and residents looking to stay cool can save money by taking some simple steps like keeping the blinds and curtains closed.
I'm plugging electronics like the television when they're not being used and making sure the air conditioners filter is clean.
Officials are also reminding residents that it's illegal for utility companies to disconnect electrical services during a heat advisory.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice is conducting an investigation into an officer-related death and appear in Northeast Wisconsin.
Just before 1 a.m. Saturday, dispatch got a call of a person with a rifle at a boat launch. Officers from the DePierre Police Department, Brown County Sheriff's Office, and Ash Wabanan Public Safety responded.
When they attempted to negotiate with the person, officers from DePierre and Ash Wabanan fired their weapons when the subject showed the rifle.
The person was pronounced dead at the scene. The involved officers are on administrative leave as the DOJ investigates.
Wisconsinites will soon get a break on their utility bills. Under the new state biennial budget, residents will no longer need to pay state sales taxes on their electric and natural gas bills year round.
The state sales tax exemption had previously applied only from November to April when utility bills tend to be higher due to winter weather.
Under the new budget, the sales tax exemption would apply year round and is estimated to save residents a combined nearly $180 million over the next two years.
The state sales tax will automatically be removed from energy bills beginning October 1st.
While home prices are remaining high, there are some positive trends for potential home buyers in recent months. Civic Media's Jimmy Cusca has more.
The state's housing market saw some positive signs in its June home sales report, which showed year over year sales up 8.1% and a slowing in the rise of median home prices.
For over four years, the average cost of a home year over year rose 5%, for three of the last four months that figure his state under 5%.
The Wisconsin Realtors Association said that 11.5% of all closings happened in the month of June, and increasing home sales this summer could show an improving housing market.
The median price for a home in Wisconsin was $340,000 in June.
As part of EAA Air Venture 2025, the good year tire and rubber company donated its last remaining blimp gondola frame to the EAA Museum.
The frame will become part of a new children's exhibit. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the good year blimp, making the donation even more memorable.
In addition to the donation, visitors got the rare opportunity to see two blimp's.
Wingfoot, with its vintage wrap inspired by the first branded good year blimp pilgrim, and Wingfoot 2 were in Oshkosh for the duration of the Flying Convention.
Speaking of EAA, the numbers are in, and it was another record-breaking year.
As the skies over Wisconsin began to quiet, and EAA Air Venture 2025 came to a close Sunday, officials announced that 691,000 visitors from 80 different countries were part of the event.
That's about 5,000 more than last year's record-breaking attendance. 15,000 people camped on the grounds, 3,000 of them aircraft campers.
EAA Air Venture 2026 next year will be July 20th through the 26th.
W-I-R-I in WFHR News, I'm Lisa Hale.
Showdown at M-Fam Field.
Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with Sports, Baseball. The Brewers and the Cubs tonight in Milwaukee, the battle for first place, both teams tied.
For the NL Central, after the Brewers beat the Marlins 3-2, thanks to a walk-off RBI.
In the 9th, by Blake Perkins, Fandole, Wisconsin.
Perkins set a field back and down.
Scored as a hit, and comes host in the Brewers.
Walk off the Marlins.
Blake Perkins delivers in the press.
Perkins now back after missing half the season, with a fractured shin bone.
It's been a long road, and this is a middle of season for a lot of these guys, and I'm kind of coming in late.
So it's just great, great to come through for the guys, and just appreciating these moments a little bit more.
NFL training camp in Green Bay, the Packers now in full pads.
Now we're talking about real football. These guys are still in their underwear out there, so...
That's Packers' head coach, Matt LaFlure, with Sports. I'm Mike Clemens.
On your entertainment beat, I'm Pete Schwabba.
As far as episodic TV goes, nothing gets me more excited than a well-done cop show.
It's been two spin-offs so far, from the Amazon Prime cop show Bosh, a show about a stubborn, uncompromising police detective played by Titus Weliver.
In a new cop show, Weliver heads up the cast in Westies.
According to Collider, Weliver plays Glen Keenan, a Vietnam vet in Gritty Beat Cop.
The story is set in the early 80s in Hell's Kitchen in New York, and follows the Westies, a real-life Irish street gang,
as they try to carve out a piece of the action, despite being a much smaller force than the Mafia's five families of New York.
Weliver calls his character deeply corrupt and very dark, but also nuanced.
Joining him in the cast are J.K. Simmons, Tom Brittney, Jessica Francis Duke, and just added additions, Sarah Bulger, and Stanley Morgan.
The Westies will drop on MGM Plus sometime in 2026.
Phineas and Ferb are coming back in 2026. Season 5 is currently on the air, but it's being called a revival.
At Comic Con last week in San Diego, the producer celebrated, said revival, of the Disney show, which launched 10 new episodes June 5th.
And announced that the next batch of episodes will drop next year. Phineas and Ferb debuted in 2007, but went off the air in 2015.
The USA Network has announced it is canceled at Resident Alien, despite the show carving out a nice following over its four seasons.
The announcement was made right before the season 4 finale last week. The sci-fi comedy is about an alien who is also a doctor in a small town and tries to conceal his identity.
The show is based on a book of the same title, executive producer Chris Sheridan says he wasn't totally caught off guard by the surprise.
And for what it's worth, says the season 4 finale episode is his favorite of the whole series.
During the recent SNL 50th anniversary show, Dan Acroid was a notable absence.
He has finally come forward with why he did not attend the celebration broadcast.
Putting it very simply, the 73-year-old Acroid said he wanted to sit with his family and eat his own popcorn while he got to watch the nostalgic fun.
South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone went there in the season premiere of season 27.
They discussed the episode during Comic Con, as well as their struggles with Paramount to get the show on the air as it was seen.
During the episode, the writer showed a naked commander in chief walking through the desert and did not blur over any private parts.
I'll be at pretty cartoonish private parts. The writing team said they argued back and forth with Paramount for four days about what they would show and what they wouldn't.
But in the end, Parker and Stone were unrelenting and got their way.
The writers say they are fully expecting to be sued by a certain Oval Office resident.
For more showbiz fun, tune in to Nightlight with me, Peach Waba, weeknights from 6-8pm on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Mostly sunny today with a high right around 90 this afternoon, and it is going to be muggy with a heat index close to the triple digits here later today.
Tonight scattered thunderstorms, 68-tomorrow thunderstorms, with a high in the low to mid-80s.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable. Currently it's 74!
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