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Area firefighters this week will be remembering retired Captain Scott Tangerström, who died last week at the age of 69.
He spent more than 50 years with the Racine firebows serving as president.
Visitation is Wednesday evening with funeral services Thursday at Water of Life Lutheran.
Racine police say a traffic stop led to the discovery of a modified AR-15 style rifle and a handgun.
The arrest happened during a traffic stop near Decoven and Clark Street last Thursday.
Two 18-year-olds face weapons and marijuana-related charges.
Two people are facing charges after a large fight after Thursday's soccer game at Prichard Park.
Police were called back to the stadium Friday night during a football game between Park and Horlick.
Gubernatorial candidate and Congressman Tom Tiffany and his pilot escaped after their plane lost power and landed in Lake Wasaw Saturday night.
Both got out as the plane started to sink.
Federal investigators are reviewing the emergency landing.
The DP Wiggly Building in downtown Racine is now a local landmark.
The designation could help the owners get funding to preserve the 1872 building.
Go deeper on the designation online today.
Read all about it at RacineCountyEye.com.
And Racine and Kenosha County beaches face a high swim risk through tomorrow morning.
The National Weather Service says you might see waves up to eight feet.
And that's news on WRJN.
I'm Stuart J. Wattles, news at the top and bottom of the hour, or anytime at WRJN.com.
For Civic Media News, I'm Connie Feldman.
A flight home from a Republican dinner in La Crosse ended with Tom Tiffany and his pilot
in Lake Wausau after their plane lost power near the Wausau downtown airport.
Authorities say the 911 call came in around 849 Saturday night, and Tiffany says the two got out of the plane as it started to sink.
It's not like they made plans to move to the nearest shore after it went under, and then I lost contact with them.
I believe his phone is under water.
They may be swimming south, I believe.
We have two victims in the water.
We're just pulling about now.
Most of them back to the landing with two victims.
Those are alert shots.
Tiffany took to a microphone later in the day to explain what happened and talked about the injuries to himself and his hero pilot.
Democratic candidate David Crowley issued a statement saying he is thankful no one was seriously hurt.
Federal investigators are looking into the emergency landing.
It wasn't the season opener Packer fans had hoped for against division rivals Minnesota Vikings.
The pack had a double digit lead going into halftime with an impressive performance controlling the game from the start.
The second half was a different story, though, a scenario all too familiar to Packer fans.
The Vikings scored 29 points in a row, Jordan Love faced back-to-back sacks, fumbling on one of them, and a string of penalties led to a 39-22 blowout by the Vikings.
The Packers head to New York next week to take on the Jets.
Four police officers are injured, and one of our state's largest farmers markets was canceled Saturday after a car drove into a crowd of people over the weekend in Green Bay.
Green Bay police say a fight broke out near a food truck just after two in the morning Saturday.
As officers were investigating, they say a car drove into a crowd of bystanders and police.
One officer fired their gun.
No one was hurt from the gunfire.
Police say four officers needed medical treatment for their injuries.
The officer who fired the gun is now on administrative leave for the department's policy.
Due to the active investigation in downtown Green Bay, city leaders canceled Saturday's farmers market.
The market typically hosts around 150 vendors for Saturday's market.
An athlete is dead after suffering a medical emergency during the Iron Man 70.3 Wisconsin competition in Madison.
Officials said the incident happened during the swimming portion of the event Saturday morning.
UW Lake Rescue personnel brought the athlete to shore and began life-saving measures before emergency crews took over.
The athlete was transported to a hospital where they later died.
And that's your state news update.
I'm Connie Feldman for Civic Media News.
The Packers lose to the Vikings.
Hi, I'm Mike Clemens from US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, where the Packers lost 39 to 22.
Green Bay had the lead, then gave up four consecutive touchdowns to the Vikings.
I asked the Packers new linebacker, Zaire Franklin, if he'd ever seen a game flip like that in the fourth quarter.
I mean, I've been through a lot of s*** in this league.
I don't know.
Maybe.
It's just tough.
We got to look back at it and see, you know, what our role was in it, how we could be better on that technique and our fundamentals and not put ourselves in a situation, you know, in these type of games you can't.
put the game in the hands of the rest right wrong or indifferent.
We just got to, you know, execute and do our job.
Baseball, the Brewers have the night off after losing to the Reds yesterday, 4-3.
Reliever, Abner, Uribe charged with the loss after giving up the go-ahead run.
As Brewers manager Pat Murphy with sports, I'm Mike Clemens.
Plenty of sunshine today.
We will get to right around 70 for a high this afternoon.
Tonight, mostly cloudy, scattered showers, maybe a thunderstorm possible or low 63.
It's going to be a little breezy tonight.
And then tomorrow, scattered thunderstorms with a high of 77.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.
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