This is your WRJN Daily News Roundup for 99.9 FM and 1400 AM in Racine and 98.1 FM in Kenosha.
From the WRJN Radio Park Newsroom, I'm Stuart J. Wattles with a quick news update.
Union Grove High School Superintendent Thomas Johnson pleaded not guilty yesterday to two felony child pornography charges.
Investigators say they found two images of underage girls on his phone.
He remains on unpaid leave from the district.
He's out on a $250,000 cash bond.
Two Southeast Wisconsin Democrats will lead the state's Budget Writing Committee next session.
State Senator Latanya Johnson of Milwaukee and Representative Tip McGuire of Kenosha got the call.
Both already serve on the Joint Finance Committee.
Mt.
Pleasant's new budget uses money redirected from Microsoft incentives to help pay for roads and equipment and hold down taxes.
About $2 million will help cut the village's property tax levy by 2%.
Rising assessments could still mean higher bills.
Downtown Racine's Christmas celebration is tomorrow with music starting at 4.45.
The parade steps off at 5.30, heading south on Main Street and west on 6th, the City Hall.
Santa will then light the Tree and Monument Square.
Fireworks will again follow.
And Case football fans can gather outside the school at 2.30 today to send the Eagles off to their state semifinal.
The team leaves at around 3.15 to face West Appearance on Prairie East.
A win sends Case to the D1 title game at Camp Randall.
Also tonight, Unbeaten Union Grove faces Notre Dame Academy and Slinger, while Kenosha St.
Joe's plays Mandovi at Wapaka.
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.
They did it!
Monashah High School won the million-dollar prize in T-Mobile's Friday Night Lights 5G competition.
Lujie supporters cast nearly 400,000 votes from all across the nation to push Monashah over the top.
The second-place school came in nearly 200,000 votes behind Monashah.
The win gives Monashah High School a $1 million home field upgrade after Calder Stadium took a beating in last summer's tornado.
The field will be revealed during a community celebration in 2027.
Newly released airport surveillance video shows the moment federal immigration officers detained a Wisconsin state patrol trooper in Madison.
The footage from Dane County Regional Airport shows undercover ICE agents stopping several men to check their identification before locating 21-year-old Carl Aaron Vandermerve.
On November 5, agents arrested Vandermerve inside the terminal as he traveled to visit family, despite holding a valid work permit while awaiting a pending asylum decision.
He was released from custody a day later following intervention from Wisconsin Congressman Derek Van Orden.
Authorities believe transportation security officials may have tipped off federal agents prior to the flight.
Wisconsin Democrats chose their legislative leaders this week as they prepared to control the Assembly, Senate, and Governor's Office for the first time in 16 years.
Racine's Greta Neubauer will become the first female assembly speaker, while Diane Hasselbein will lead the Senate majority.
Neubauer says her members will push to repeal Act 10 and restore collective bargaining rights.
Governor-elect David Crowley has called for a commission to study the issue.
Hessebein says she understands the urgency to act but needs to set priorities with newly elected senators.
Alvernia University announced plans this week to acquire Marion University in Fond du Lac, marking a major transition for the private institution.
Marion President Aaron Sadoff said in a news release, the acquisition is an opportunity to enhance Marion's future.
Sadoff said a decline in membership for the university's sponsor made the change necessary, adding, Alvernia is a partner who understands and shares Marion's commitment to their Catholic mission, values and the Fond du Lac community.
University leaders say Marion will stay in Fond du Lac and there's no current plan to downsize.
Believe it or not, it's already the season for Christmas and holiday parades around Wisconsin.
Dozens of local communities are putting the final touches on floats and tuning up those marching bands to spread holiday cheer through hometown streets across the state between now and the end of December.
Green Bay's holiday parade is set for November 21st.
Kennedy Corpus with downtown Green Bay Incorporated says there's even a pre-parade event this year planned to extend the family fun.
the north pole there's going to be a lot of fun activities for the family we've got a classical holiday movie showing oh we have hot chocolate a coffee stand heritage coffee and tea is going to be there we've got frio mexican treats for purchase but there'll also be some reindeer friends for the kids to see and take some pictures with there's fire pits if you need to warm up
And there's also a run going on run run route off by golden made events is going on So the you that's a great place to watch the runners come and go and you can cheer them on so just a really fun
area to kick off your parade.
Other notable parades around our state include the Watoma and Two Rivers Christmas Parades, both on November 28th.
The following weekend, Sturgeon Bay, Howard Swamco and Fond du Lac will all celebrate the season with parades.
And Clintonville's old fashion Christmas parade is one of the last events of the year on December 12th.
And that's your state news update.
I'm Connie Feldman for Civic Media News.
The Bucks in Orlando.
Hi, I'm Mike Clemens with Sports NBA.
The Bucks in Florida taking on the Orlando Magic.
Milwaukee trying to snap an eight game losing streak.
Head coach Taylor Jenkins says they need a rebound better.
It's an area of big concern and focus for us because that factors into the possession game, right?
You know, we're not turning teams over like we need to.
We're turning it over.
We're giving up these second chance opportunities and we're like in his double digit deficit should hopefully be singles and then it just continues to grow and it puts you behind the eight ball.
College football tomorrow, the Badgers.
on the road in Maryland to take on the Terrapins.
Ryan Hopkins will get the start again at quarterback.
NFL Packers and Vikings Sunday at noon.
Jordan Love named NFC offensive player of the week.
I asked him, can he imagine being Kurt Cousins with only three days to prep for Minnesota?
No, I cannot.
Yeah, that's probably a wild feeling.
You know, I think just to obviously be somewhere and then now you're with a new team.
Obviously he's been there.
He's been in that system.
But you know, anytime you're learning a new offense and expected to play, yeah, I could not imagine that.
That's Jordan Love with Sports on Mike Clemens.
A few flurries this morning, scattered sprinkles as temperatures climb.
We'll get to around 44 here today, and it will stay cloudy for much of the day.
And it won't be a lot of precip, just a few off and on showers.
Tonight, mostly clear 29, tomorrow, sunshine with a high of 45, Sunday, sunny 48.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.
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