Thursday News Roundup

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Thursday News Roundup

WMDX News · Thu Oct 1, 2026

92.7 FM WMDX, Madison's Real News and Great Conversation.

Here's your daily news roundup.

For Civic Media News, I'm Connie Feldman.

Six children in Fond du Lac County were taken to the hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning.

Fond du Lac County Sheriff's deputies say multiple agencies responded to a home in Osceola just after 2 AM for reports of several people with symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning.

Investigators say, in total, nine people had severe symptoms, including six children, ages four through 17, along with a 42-year-old woman and 46-year-old man.

Authorities say all needed to be taken to local hospitals for treatment.

No word yet on what caused the poisoning.

Chiefs officials say the investigation is ongoing.

Wisconsin health officials are confirming 22 new measles cases, pushing the state's total to 214 for the year.

The Department of Health Services reports the vast majority of infections remain concentrated in southwestern Wisconsin, with Lafayette, Iowa and Grant County seeing the highest case counts.

For additional cases reported in northern Wisconsin stem from out-of-state travel and are not tied to the main regional outbreak.

Public health agencies continue to monitor the spread and will publish updated figures every Tuesday and Friday.

Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate David Crowley's got some big names backing him, including former U.S.

Vice President Kamala Harris and Hollywood actor Sean Penn.

Harris held a high-dollar fundraiser for Crowley earlier this week in California, and former opponent for Governor Jessica Hong began touring Wisconsin to campaign for Democrats up and down the ballot.

The Santa Monica event came as Crowley tries to narrow a major fundraising gap with Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany.

The latest reports show Tiffany had raised about $15.5 million

compared with roughly $1.8 million for Crowley.

Tiffany called the fundraiser an example of Crowley associating with wealthy California elites.

Crowley's campaign says Tiffany shouldn't criticize fundraising because billionaire donors and outside groups have put millions behind his campaign.

The Madison Finance Committee is approving a $350,000 grant to help equip police officers with body-worn cameras by next summer.

Awarded by the Madison Community Foundation, the grant covers software and administrative costs to accelerate a rollout plan originally expected to take three years.

Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and 10 city elders co-sponsored the budget amendment following community calls for police transparency after a deadly officer involved shooting in July.

The full Madison Common Council must now give final approval to accept the funding agreement and authorize operating costs.

23 minors who work at a Wisconsin McDonald's franchise will receive $17,000 in back wages following a state child labor audit.

The Department of Workforce Development reports franchise Iron Arch committed multiple violations, including overworking teenage staff, and failing to provide required 30-minute meal breaks.

The State Department of Justice also ordered the employer to pay nearly $60,000 in civil penalties and fees.

State officials say enforcement of minor labor laws remains essential

keeping young workers safe without sacrificing their education.

Wisconsin's two U.S.

Senators found common ground this week.

Democrat Tammy Baldwin and Republican Ron Johnson both backed a bill to reshape college sports.

The Senate passed the Protect College Sports Act 77-22.

setting nationwide rules for athlete pay, health care, scholarships, transfers, and smaller sports.

The measure also gives the NCAA limited protection from antitrust lawsuits when it enforces those rules.

Baldwin's amendment passed 96 to 1 preserves athletes' ability to sue schools in state court over injuries, sexual assault, and other health and safety claims.

The motion now moved to the House.

A contractor faces a felony charge in Columbia County after allegedly taking more than $45,000 for a home accessibility project and abandoning the job.

Authorities say Jay Petley was hired to modify a Columbus home for a disabled resident, but work abruptly stopped with roughly $30,000 in improvements left unfinished.

Investigators say Paley failed to buy the necessary building materials, despite receiving full payment, leaving the homeowner to hire another contractor to complete the work.

He was arrested at his Burnett home and is expected in court in November.

And that's your state news update.

I'm Connie Feldman for Civic Media News.

Here comes the Padres.

Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with Sports Baseball.

It's the Brewers and the Padres 730 Saturday night for game one of the NLDS in Milwaukee.

The Padres eliminated the Cubs 4 to 1.

Manager Craig Council.

We just didn't play well enough.

The end of the season is you're going to be disappointed.

You're going to feel unfulfilled right now.

That's that's all I feel.

The Brewers were just two and four against the Padres this season.

Pat Murphy,

you know, these teams that we're talking about, whether it's

what we're watching on TV, Phillies and Braves and Cubs and Padres and Dodgers.

You're just talking about such good teams.

We're gonna have to play well.

It's all there's to it.

NFL the Packers adding another veteran offensive lineman 36 year old Kevin Zitler from Waukesha played at Wisconsin and was a first round pick by the Bengals.

That's part about playing for all these teams over the years like Pat Axis almost every type of offense here in there.

So, you know, for day one, it went pretty darn smoothly.

I'd say

it's guard Kevin Zitler with sports on Mike Clemens

showers and scattered thunderstorms likely today.

We could get another half inch to an inch or more of rain by the time it all winds down here late this afternoon into this evening.

Hi today.

upper sixties tonight showers ending clearing low near 50 tomorrow sunshine low to mid sixties.

I'd be the urologist Sean Cable.

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