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Green Bay – A man is dead following a motorcycle crash on Green Bay’s east side.

Police say the vehicle was headed west on Finger Road near East Mason Street around 7:15 Sunday night when it missed a curve.

The 60-year-old driver died at the hospital. A 49-year-old woman who was a passenger is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Police have not said what caused the crash.

GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Bullfrogs took out the brooms Sunday afternoon, sweeping the Madison Mallards with the 7-2 win at Joannes Stadium.

Starting pitcher Parker Hamilton threw six innings of two-run baseball to pickup the victory.

Green Bay did almost all of their damage in the first three innings, scoring six-straight runs after trailing 1-0 in the first.

Four players tallied two hits for the Bullfrogs, with Connor Ross and Desi Ammons knocking in a pair of runs.

With the two-game sweep, the team improves to 8-8 on the season. They return to action Monday night, when they travel to Wausau to take on the Wisconsin Woodchucks. First pitch is set for 5:05 p.m.

GRAND CHUTE – If you like offense, there was plenty of it at Fox Cities Stadium Sunday for the Jordan Nelson Charity Softball Game.

In a game that featured 48 runs, the Packers defense topped the offense 29-19. However, it was only after both teams flipped scores midway through.

Nelson, Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews were among the stars that left the yard in the contest.

For complete highlights, click on the video icon.

BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) – Kyle Larson knew the rain was coming – and wanted it to arrive as soon as possible.

He didn’t get his wish. Instead, the downpour that ended this Sprint Cup race in Michigan gave the victory to Kurt Busch.

With his fuel running low, Larson had to make a pit stop, ceding the lead to Busch only a few laps before heavy rain arrived and ended Sunday’s race. It was Busch’s second Cup victory of the year. Larson remains winless, although he had tried to stay out on the track long enough to reach the rainstorm in first place.

“We could see weather coming there off of (Turn) 4 and just praying that it would get here in time for me to stay out and be in the lead when the rain did hit,” Larson said. “I applaud my guys for trying. We are pretty deep in points so we have to take risks like that to make the Chase. I’m happy with the call, just wish the rain would have come three laps sooner.”

The fourth weather-related red flag of the day came after lap 138 of a scheduled 200. Busch was leading at the time, and he was declared the winner after a downpour soaked the track. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was second, followed by Martin Truex Jr.

Larson gave up the lead on lap 133.

Busch won in his backup car – he switched after an accident in practice Friday.

“It was a fantastic group effort,” he said. “To be able to pull the backup car out and to have it as prepared as it was and then to have the extra work that went into it, all the crew members that (crew chief) Tony Gibson leads rolled up their sleeves, jumped right on it, and we made it a race-winning backup car.”

Busch led for only six laps, but they were the last six of the race.

“I don’t know how Tony got the rain to come out, but he did that,” owner Gene Haas said. “That’s all it takes to win a race is you just need about 4,000 or 5,000 things to line up, and you’re there.”

Kevin Harvick led for 63 laps, but a tire problem knocked him well back. He finished 29th, only the second time all year he’s been out of the top 10. Harvick did stay atop the Cup standings, leading by 15 points over Truex.

Pole winner Kasey Kahne was 15th. The shortened Michigan race was a missed opportunity for several drivers with no wins, like Kahne, Larson and Jeff Gordon.

Busch’s victory in his No. 41 Chevrolet was part of a huge weekend for Chevy, which took the top three spots in this Cup race while also emerging victorious in a NASCAR Truck race, an IndyCar race and in the GTE Pro category at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

This was Busch’s third career Cup win at Michigan International Speedway and first since 2007. It’s his first multi-win season in NASCAR’s top series since 2011.

This was supposed to be a 400-mile, 200-lap race, but the weather made that a tough task from the start. The first three red flags, on laps 14, 20 and 46, delayed the race for a total of over two hours.

Laps 12 through 28 were all under caution, and the third red flag came during a competition caution.

“You just go to your pit box and talk to your guys about the race car,” Truex said. “That only lasts a few minutes and then you talk about everything else, what we’re going to do on the off weekend and all that kind of stuff. Really just trying to kill time. There’s really not a whole lot you can do in the rain delay.”

Almost immediately after the race went green following the third red flag, Kyle Busch went into the wall. That was the end of his race.

The bad weather held off for a while after that – until the rain returned with a vengeance. First came a yellow flag, then red. The grandstands were evacuated, and the rest of the race was eventually canceled.

GRAND CHUTE — Jordy Nelson talked to our Drew Smith after his charity softball game on Sunday. Jordy tells us how he is feeling after off season surgery on his hip.

On the field the Defense took home the victory but Nelson says there might be an asterisk after switching the score to help the defensive guys out.

The game is played to benefit charities as this year it helped raise 100,000 thousand dollars for Young Life.

ASHWAUBENON – After sharing the FOX 11 weekend anchor desk for the past 8 years, Laura Smith is saying good-bye. Sunday’s broadcast marked her final weekend broadcast for the Green Bay area television station.

The send off for Smith included video from her first co-anchor stint at the station dating back to April 2007 with co-anchor Mark Leland. The anchor team would go on to preside over the weekend newscasts longer than any other weekend anchors in Northeast Wisconsin.

When Smith wasn’t anchoring the news she was reporting for the station. In all she has been with FOX 11 for 12 years.

During that time, Smith has interviewed thousands of people, and met many more while out and about. Some of those interviewed were famous, but all helped her to share stories and make a connection with FOX 11 viewers.

From trekking through the Northwoods checking in on endangered species, to covering the changing events at the capitol in Madison, Smith has been right there to keep viewers informed.

Video clips of Smith over the years also highlight a changing hairstyle. Smith also made some fashion statements thanks in part to the snowy Wisconsin winters. Speaking of winters, she even covered the snow while reporting in Dallas during the Packers’ last Super Bowl a few years back.

Her co-workers at FOX 11 wish Laura well in her new endeavors outside of television. Laura will go to work for a local company, looking forward to keeping up on the news by watching FOX 11.

ALLOUEZ – This weekend marked the 30th annual Precious Metals Car Show and Swap Meet in Allouez.

People from throughout Wisconsin turned out for the event at Greene Isle park.

There were 15 classes of cars all competing for a trophy.

All proceeds go to benefit local youth organizations.

Organizers say this event is a great time for the whole family.

“It’s amazing, everyone seems to be having a great time. There is a lot of really cool cars out here so, the variety we get is really cool. We get a lot of the same ones back year to year so its alwasy nice to see that as well, see those people, see how their car is. People seem to be having a really good time,” said Nick Linz with the Allouez Optimist Club.

All proceeds from the event go to local youth organizations.

GRAND CHUTE — Check out the photo gallery from the Jordy Nelson Charity Softball Game held at Fox Cities Stadium. Jordy Nelson, Aaron Rodgers and the Offense squared off against Clay Matthews, Sam Shields, and Micah Hyde of the defense.

MILWAUKEE (AP) – Max Scherzer struck out a Nationals-record 16 and threw a one-hitter, losing his perfect-game bid on a bloop single that barely fell in during the seventh inning Sunday while pitching Washington past the Milwaukee Brewers 4-0.

Carlos Gomez got Milwaukee’s only hit, leading off the seventh with a broken-bat looper to right field just beyond the outstretched glove of second baseman Anthony Rendon. Scherzer looked the other away after the ball dropped.

Scherzer set a career high for strikeouts and broke the Nationals mark of 14 set by Stephen Strasburg in his big league debut in 2010. The franchise record of 18 was set by Bill Gullickson in 1980 with Montreal – the Expos moved to Washington for the 2005 season.

Scherzer (7-5) walked one and finished the day with a 1.93 ERA.

After losing his last two starts, Scherzer rebounded with the most overpowering game of his career, which includes a Cy Young Award, two All-Star selections and a lot of strikeouts.

Scherzer, in the first season of a $210 million, seven-year contract, threw his second complete game in his 211th career start. His other one was a three-hit shutout on June 12, 2014, for the Detroit Tigers against the Chicago White Sox.

The Brewers rarely hit the ball out of the infield. When they did, the 30-year-old righty mainly held hitters to harmless popouts.

Scherzer also hit a single in the fourth. Going into the seventh, he had reached base more than the Brewers.

The Nationals scored two runs off rookie Taylor Jungmann (1-1), who labored through five innings in his second career start. Clint Robinson added a two-run double with two outs in the seventh off Jeremy Jeffress.

Washington salvaged a split of a four-game series with last-place Milwaukee even with slugger Bryce Harper watching from the dugout. He got the day off after being hit by a fastball on his left leg in Saturday’s 7-2 win over the Brewers.

Scooter Gennett worked a full-count walk with one out in the eighth, about the closest that Scherzer came to showing any semblance of struggling.

Scherzer came back to strike out Hector Gomez and Martin Maldonado swinging, the second whiff coming on a 96 mph fastball.

Scherzer caught Jason Rogers and Gomez with off-speed pitches for two more strikeouts in the ninth.

Jungmann allowed seven hits, walked two and struck out five.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Nationals: 2B Danny Espinosa stayed in the game after appearing to hurt his right foot on a slide while being thrown out by catcher Martin Maldonado trying to steal second to end the top of the third.

Brewers: Veterans 3B Aramis Ramirez and C Jonathan Lucroy got regular days off from the starting lineup.

UP NEXT

Nationals: Washington opens a home-and-home series against the Rays with two games at Tampa Bay. LHP Gio Gonzalez (4-3) won his only career start against the Rays while with Washington, a 5-2 win at Nationals Park on June 21, 2012.

Brewers: Kyle Lohse (3-7) takes the mound for the start of a home-and-home, four-game series against Kansas City. The right-hander last won when the Brewers beat the Mets 7-0 on May 15, going winless in his next five starts.

DALLAS (AP) – The man linked to a violent assault on Dallas police headquarters was accused two years earlier of choking his mother, then fleeing to an East Texas town where schools were locked down out of fear he would attack them as “soft targets,” according to accounts from police and family members.

Police said the suspect, who planted pipe bombs outside the headquarters and fired at officers early Saturday from his armored van, told them he was James Boulware. He was killed hours later by a police sniper, and the medical examiner still hadn’t officially confirmed the man’s identity on Sunday.

In interviews with The Associated Press, Boulware’s father recalled his son’s seething anger at police after losing custody of his child, and his brother recalled that the family’s attempts to get Boulware help were rebuffed.

“We had tried for two years,” his brother, Andrew Boulware, said Sunday. “I didn’t honestly think that he would ever go this far, but it was always in the back of my mind that it was a possibility.”

Authorities say it was miraculous no one else was injured in Saturday’s attack, in which the gunman sprayed the front of the building with gunfire just after midnight. After opening fire, the suspect drove the armored van into a squad car, still firing, then led police on a chase to a restaurant parking lot in the suburb of Hutchins. The police sniper shot him during the standoff, but it took several hours to confirm his death out of fear that he had loaded his van with more explosives.

Police on Sunday said they had put 14 officers involved in the incident on administrative leave pending an investigation.

Boulware was arrested for family violence in Dallas two years ago, in a case that was later dismissed. According to a Dallas police report, a witness says Boulware was in his mother’s house and “began talking rudely about religion, Jews and Christians.” The report says Boulware then grabbed his mother by the neck for 2-3 seconds until a third person could pull him off. The two men fought until Boulware left the house.

The police report says he was then reported the same day to be in Paris, Texas, about 100 miles away, where he grabbed weapons and body armor and talked about “shooting up schools and churches.” Andrew Boulware and his father, Jim, confirmed the incident.

Andrew Boulware accused authorities in Dallas of ignoring family members’ statements that James was mentally unstable.

“They diagnosed him as sane in 15 minutes,” Boulware said.

He remembers James claiming that he had dreamed about the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and other disasters before they had happened. He also remembers pleading with James Boulware to get medical help, and going to a local official but being ignored.

“He never was properly diagnosed,” Andrew Boulware said. “He could be the nicest guy in the world. He tried to help friends out whenever he could. He was not a bitter person.”

His mother, Jeannine Howard, said in a statement to local media that she considered her son “lost to mental health” long before his death.

“We tried to get him mental help numerous times, but the system failed him, because he was declared ‘sane,'” she said in the statement. “He was very delusional. It was very obvious.

“We hope something good can come from this, and that people will reach out to hurting souls around them and unite to build up others, rather than tearing them down,” she added. “We hope that people with mental illness will receive the care they need to avoid situations like this in the future.”

Boulware lost custody of his son, something that his father, Jim, said weighed on him deeply and caused him to distrust police.

The day before the shooting, Boulware spent several hours at his father’s home in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton. He was talking about the armored van he had just purchased days earlier, having taken a bus to Georgia to pick it up and drive it back.

He also talked about the police, including his reaction to a widely-watched video of a white police officer in McKinney, Texas, pushing down a black teenage girl at a pool party.

“He made statements while he was here that the police are the ones that took his son away from him,” Jim Boulware said.

But Jim Boulware said he didn’t know what was to come. His son left the house that day suggesting he was driving out to West Texas and planning to sleep in the van.

Andrew Boulware said he hadn’t seen his brother in more than two years. He remembers James Boulware living in a home in Paris without electricity and tried to help him, but was rebuffed.

“I went back out there after he got released and I brought him a box of food, and he said, ‘Get off my property,’ and so I did,” he said. “I tried to call him three or four times after that, but he never did answer.”

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A recent audit found nearly one in 11 licensed Wisconsin physicians were not in compliance with continuing education requirements, according to state Department of Safety and Professional Services records.

State regulators found 8 percent of doctors selected in the random audit failed to meet the requirements, the Wisconsin State Journal (http://bit.ly/1cUFqLK ) reported. While an overwhelming majority of doctors completed their continuing education, the past chairman of the state Medical Examining Board said the requirements are not that strict.

Wisconsin’s minimum requirements are the lowest in the nation, according to Sheldon Wasserman, who left the board as chairman last year. Physicians in Wisconsin must log 30 hours of continuing medical education every two years.

“It is shocking to know that 8 percent can’t even meet the minimum standard for the nation,” Wasserman said.

The Medical Examining Board last summer began an audit of continuing education compliance for the 2011-13 licensing period for the 25,000 active physicians in Wisconsin.

The results of that audit, conducted by selecting doctors randomly and then examining continuing education credit submissions, are rippling through the department’s disciplinary system now.

A new rule that went into effect June 1 requires biennial audits of the continuing education status for physicians.

Of 1,135 medical doctors audited, 94, or 8.3 percent, could not prove they had completed the required continuing education, according to department spokeswoman Hannah Zillmer. The licenses of 81 osteopathic doctors were audited, with seven of them not in compliance.

Wasserman said if a physician can’t get 30 continuing medical education credits in two years, “something is wrong with you.”

“Wisconsin’s public expects our doctors to be well-informed and kept updated, ready to deal with modern medicine and aware of the latest advances and knowledge out there, and (continuing education) is the way they can obtain that,” Wasserman said.

Nancy Nankivil, chief strategy and operations officer of the Wisconsin Medical Society, which offers many continuing education opportunities and keeps track of them for the state’s doctors, said most physicians “go beyond the requirements, but it is probably prudent for the state to do random audits just to make sure we have a certain level of compliance.”

“We’re pretty confident that physicians are getting the right amount both for licensing and for board certification,” she said.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Dane County medical examiner’s office says a Madison woman has died after her bicycle collided with a car last week.

According to the medical examiner’s office, 23-year-old Emilly Zhu died Saturday at a hospital from injuries she suffered in the crash Wednesday morning.

The Wisconsin State Journal reports police say she was riding on a bike trail and was crossing Raymond Road when she collided with the vehicle on Madison’s Far West Side.

The death is still under investigation by Madison police and the medical examiner’s office.

APPLETON – Appleton native James Zwerg and Congressman John Lewis (D-Georgia) received honorary degrees from Lawrence University today.

Both men made tremendous strides and worked together during the civil rights movement.

Zwerg and Lewis were Freedom Riders and used non-violence to bring change and equality for African-Americans in the South and across the United States.

On Sunday, Lawrence University welcomed both men to help celebrate 50th anniversary year of the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

Lewis was also the guest speaker for the university’s 166th commencement.

“As a young child, I saw those signs that said white men, colored men, colored women, white waiting, colored waiting and I didn’t like it,” Lewis said to the crowd.

During his time as a Freedom Rider Zwerg received physical and verbal abuse but through it all, his spirit was never broken.

Tonight on FOX 11 News at Nine, you’ll hear stories from both men about their fight for equality.

TOWN OF VIENNA, Wis. (AP) – A woman is in custody following an apparent homicide in south-central Wisconsin.

Dane County sheriff’s Sgt. Eric Stacey says deputies found a man dead after responding to a home in the Town of Vienna, north of Madison, just before 7 p.m. Saturday.

Stacey tells the Wisconsin State Journal an acquaintance of the woman in custody had called 911.

According to the 911 center, the caller said the woman told him that she had harmed someone with whom she had a relationship.

Sheriff’s deputies searched the area for the woman, who was located and taken into custody.

The cause of death is not yet known. Authorities have not released the man’s name.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – The Wisconsin Department of Justice fired a crime victim technician last year for giving a grant applicant an unfair advantage and punished agents for a variety of reasons, including losing evidence, speaking with a suspect’s family and launching an unauthorized drug investigation, records show.

An Associated Press obtained DOJ’s 2014 discipline letters through an open records request. The letters indicate 15 agency employees were formally reprimanded, suspended or fired. All of the punishment was handed down under the state’s former attorney general, J.B. Van Hollen, not the current one, Brad Schimel, who took office in January.

The 15 employees represent about 2 percent of the DOJ’s roughly 675 positions. Still, every transgression can damage the reputation of an agency that holds itself up as the state’s elite crime-fighting force.

Kevin Potter, the DOJ’s records custodian, redacted the names of all but three of the punished employees from the records. He said in a cover letter that he felt the public interest in how the agency handles misconduct is served by releasing the substance of the letters without identification.

Potter didn’t redact the names of Willie Brantley and Anna King, two Milwaukee agents fired in March 2014 for letting nearly four dozen child pornography cases languish for months. Their firings were widely reported and the DOJ released their termination letters last year. He also didn’t redact the name of Amy Lautenbach, who was fired from her post as Madison crime lab manager in July for poor performance.

The letters show the agency fired a community services technician from its Office of Crime Victims Services. A Violence Against Women Act grant applicant asked the technician that June for a form related to the grant. The technician sent the applicant the form in violation of orders that all grant applicants be treated fairly. The technician’s July termination letter said the worker lied to supervisors about sending the form and that the worker’s actions amounted to a deliberate attempt to give an applicant an unfair advantage.

DOJ records show the grant was for at least $42,500. The money was divvied up among five applicants: the Oneida Social Services Department; the Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse, Inc.; People Against Domestic and Sexual Abuse; Women and Children’s Horizons, Inc.; and Reach Counseling Services.

Potter redacted the name of the person who asked the technician for the form from the termination letter, which doesn’t note the applicant the person may have represented. DOJ spokeswoman Anne Schwartz declined to provide the name of that applicant or say whether that applicant received any money.

In February, the DOJ suspended an agent for five days without pay for losing evidence in two cases. The discipline letter doesn’t include details about the cases, but it said the loss of evidence prevented federal felony charges from being filed in one and resulted in the other being dismissed.

Another letter shows that in April, the agency ordered an agent to serve a 10-day unpaid suspension for improperly telling a Brown County suspect’s family and attorneys that he believed the suspect was innocent, even though the agent wasn’t assigned to the case. The agent also revealed to the family and attorneys the existence and outcome of the agent’s investigation into public corruption in a county whose name had been redacted.

The agent spoke without consulting a DOJ supervisor or the district attorney, forcing prosecutors to prepare for motion hearings that might have hurt the case. The letter said those hearings never happened but doesn’t elaborate.

“I am astounded by your audacity to believe you had some personal obligation, let alone authority to attempt to intervene in that process,” David Matthews, administrator of the DOJ’s Division of Criminal Investigation, wrote in the letter.

Brown County District Attorney David Lasee didn’t respond to a voicemail inquiring about the incident. Schwartz declined to comment on the case.

The agency reprimanded an agent in August for conducting what the letters suggest was an unauthorized drug buy. An agent was reprimanded in December, too, for seeking a search warrant in an Eau Claire County case that hadn’t been assigned to him or her after being told by a supervisor and the case agent that the matter was closed.

In April, the agency suspended an employee for five days without pay for failing to send supervisors information from online child pornography tips in six instances and failing to complete a case initiation report for a seventh tip received in 2010, delaying that case’s assignment until early last year.

The investigation led to a 19-year-old Milwaukee man already under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old. The letter notes that if the employee had handled the case properly, that the sexual assault could have been avoided. The letter also noted that agents weren’t able to conduct investigations in the other cases as well as they could have if they’d gotten the information sooner.

DOJ officials announced in April in the wake of Brantley and King’s terminations that the employee had been disciplined but declined to identify the employee or elaborate on the punishment.

GRAND CHUTE – The Green Bay Packers will be on the field again this afternoon – the softball field that is.

The Jordy Nelson Charity Softball Game starts at 1 o’clock at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute.

The game benefits Young Life, an organization for middle, high school and college students that pairs them with adults focused on the things that matter most to kids – fun, adventure and friendship. Founded in 1941, Young Life has more than 3,000 staff and 30,000 volunteers reaching more than 1,000,000 kids annually.

Besides Aaron Rodgers and the offense taking on Clay Matthews and the defense, there is also a sponsor game, and a home run derby.

Watch FOX 11 News at Nine for full coverage on the day’s events.

Ingredients:

1 can refried beans
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 container (16 ounces) guacamole
1 1/2 cups sour cream
1 1/2 to 2 cups thick and chunky salsa
1 1/2 to 2 cups shredded cheddar or Mexican blend cheese
1/2 cup seeded and chopped tomatoes
1 small can sliced black olives, drained
2 to 3 scallions, chopped

Directions:

Mix the beans with garlic powder. Spread on the bottom of a pie plate or small casserole dish. Next spread guacamole and then sour cream over beans. Top with salsa, cheese, tomatoes, black olives and scallions. Refrigerate until ready to serve. Serve with tortilla chips.

Notes:I love to layer this in clear plastic cups or small canning jars. That way everybody gets their very own dip! Go ahead! Double dip all you want!

OSHKOSH – Artists from across all mediums gathered in Oshkosh for the 58th annual Winnebagoland Art Fair Sunday.

The art fair is one as one of the oldest in the nation.

The fair runs rain or shine from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Oshkosh’s South Park.

Admission is free. There will also be music and other entertainment. Food will be available for purchase.

Several artists spent the morning with Good Day to tell us about their crafts.

For more information on the Winnebagoland Art Fair, click here.

ASHWAUBENON – Deb Johnson with Budding Chefs and the nutrition director of Live 54218 joins Pauleen Le in the studio this morning as Sunday’s cooking guest.

Johnson shared a delicious Cobb Salad Sandwich and a Fruit Salad with Lime Yogurt Dressing recipe.

Budding Chefs works to inspire children from as young as three years old to have fun cooking. Classes are available all summer long.

For more information on Budding Chefs and upcoming classes for kids, click here.

Fruit Salad with Lime Yogurt Dressing

Ingredients:

1/2 cup vanilla Greek yogurt

1 lime 1/4 cup pure maple syrup (or honey if you prefer)

1 medium apple, cored and diced

1 medium naval orange, peeled and sectioned

1 cup strawberries, halved

1 banana, sliced

1/2 cup diced pineapple

1/2 cup diced pears

1/2 cup blueberries or peaches  (can substitute 15 oz. can of fruit cocktail, drained for the last 3)

Zest and juice lime.

Directions:

Whisk zest, juice, yogurt and syrup in small bowl to blend; set dressing aside.  Combine remaining ingredients except banana in a large bowl.  Cover both bowls and refrigerate until ready to serve, up to 6 hours.  When ready to serve, add sliced banana, mix dressing into fruit or serve dressing on the side.  If mixing, let flavors blend for 10 minutes or so.

Cobb Salad Sandwich (Serving size:  2)

Ingredients:

Can use sliced avocado, or make an Avocado spread

Spread:

1/2 avocado

1 T Greek Yogurt

1/2 tsp. red wine vinegar

Salt and Pepper to taste

Sandwiches:

4 slices hearty bread 4 slices ham (thicker slices)

2 hard boiled eggs, sliced

4 slices bacon, cooked crisp

2 slices tomato Greens of your choice (I like romaine or baby spinach)

Directions:

To make the spread, place avocado in small bowl and mash with fork.  Stir in yogurt and vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. Divide avocado spread evenly between 2 slices of bread.  Top each slice with half of the ham, eggs, bacon, tomato and greens.  Place remaining bread slices on top.

GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Blizzard saw their postseason dreams cut short Saturday night in a 75-31 loss to Sioux Falls at the Resch Center.

Quarterback Donovan Porterie threw for three touchdowns but was also intercepted three times in the loss.

The undefeated Storm came into the game at a perfect 12-0 and didn’t show any signs of letting up. Signal caller Lorenzo Brown tailed three touchdowns with six other players recording at least one score.

With the loss, Green Bay is eliminated from playoff contention. However, their 6-7 record is a four-game improvement from last season’s 2-12 campaign.

The Blizzard wrap up their season in Iowa next week when they take on the Barnstormers. Kickoff is set for 7:05 p.m.