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GREEN BAY – Some Green Bay Gamblers hockey players put smiles on kids faces Monday.

Players stopped by Aurora Baycare Medical Center to give away teddy bears.

More than 6,100 stuffed animals were collected during Saturday’s Teddy Bear toss game. The bears were tossed on the ice during the second period.

Those involved in Monday’s special delivery say they enjoy seeing the looks on the kids faces.

Jason Pawloski, Gamblers goalie, said, “It’s great to see the kids put that smile on their face and to brighten up their day, it’s really great.”

Center for the Gamblers, Jake Kauppila, said, “A lot of these kids really look up to us and I think its awesome to give back and show them we really appreciate everything they do for us.”

Since its inception, the Gambers’ Teddy Bear Toss has collected more than 90,000 teddy bears for children in need.

MILWAUKEE (AP) – The Milwaukee County medical examiner’s office says a 58-year-old man was killed in an industrial accident at a tannery in Milwaukee.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports Juan Gonzalez died of blunt force head injury about 9:40 a.m. Sunday after an accident at D.R. Diedrich & Company.

According to records, Gonzalez had been working on a machine called a flesher, which is used to separate fat from the hide. A preliminary investigation showed a bolt came unfastened and caused a large cylinder to fall, pinning Gonzalez against the machine.

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Former hip-hop music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight was charged Monday with murder and attempted murder after he struck two men with his pickup truck last week.

Prosecutors allege that Knight intended to run down a friend and another man after an argument on a movie set. One of the men was killed.

Attorney James Blatt says Knight accidentally ran over the men on Thursday as he tried to escape a vicious attack. He turned himself in to police on Friday.

Knight’s initial bail of $2 million was revoked Monday after a court commissioner agreed with authorities that he was a potential flight risk and could intimidate witnesses.

He is scheduled to appear in court in Compton on Tuesday.

The bail ruling came after detectives told a judge the 49-year-old founder of Death Row Records could face a lengthy prison sentence because of a violent criminal past and had the potential to intimidate witnesses, Los Angeles County sheriff’s spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said.

Knight was at the center of one of the most notorious rap conflicts of the 1990s, pitting Tupac Shakur against Biggie Smalls in an East Coast-West Coast rivalry.

Knight was sent to prison for nearly five years for badly beating a rival with Shakur at a Las Vegas hotel, just hours before Shakur was fatally shot while riding in Knight’s car just east of the Strip.

In the current case, Knight struck two men with his pickup truck on in a parking lot. The collision killed his friend, Terry Carter, 55, and injured Cle “Bone” Sloan, 51, an actor and film consultant.

Authorities have said Knight argued with Sloan earlier at a location for the film “Straight Outta Compton” about the rise of the rap group N.W.A. and then was told by sheriff’s deputies providing security to leave.

The argument resumed in the parking lot where Knight and Sloan exchanged punches through a window of the pickup truck before the two men were run down, authorities said.

Blatt has said Knight was attacked by four people, including Sloan, and that Knight hit the gas and fled in fear.

The incident came less than six months after Knight was shot six times at a West Hollywood nightclub in August – the second shooting he has survived. No arrests have been made in that case.

At 6-foot-4 and weighing 325 pounds, Knight is an imposing figure who is credited, in part, with helping create Death Row Records when he strong-armed another label to release Dr. Dre from his contract, said Chuck Creekmur, CEO of allhiphop.com.

Knight and Dre later had a falling out, and Dre left the record company that eventually declared bankruptcy and was auctioned off.

In November, Knight pleaded not guilty to a robbery charge filed after a celebrity photographer accused him of stealing her camera in Beverly Hills. Because of prior convictions, he could face up to 30 years in prison in that case.

PONTIAC, MI – Heavy snow has caused the roof of the Winstar Minidome in Pontiac, Michigan, to collapse.

It’s near the Silverdome in the metro-Detroit area.

Media reports in the area say there’s no word on any injuries at this time.

PHOENIX (AP) – Former NFL lineman and Hall of Famer Warren Sapp was arrested Monday on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute and allegedly assaulting two women, Phoenix police said.

Hours later, the NFL Network announced that it had terminated its contract with Sapp, who had been working as a broadcaster and was in Arizona for Sunday’s Super Bowl in suburban Glendale.

Sapp, 42, was taken into custody at a downtown Phoenix hotel and booked into jail, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear if he has an attorney.

A tackle and defensive end, Sapp played in the NFL from 1995-2007 for Tampa Bay and Oakland. He was a vital contributor for the Buccaneers as they went from also-ran to Super Bowl champion after the 2002 season and was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2013.

However, Sapp has had a history with legal troubles around the Super Bowl. He was arrested the day before the Super Bowl in 2010 on a domestic battery charge, but prosecutors later dropped the case because of inconsistences between the victim’s statements and evidence, including surveillance video.

Despite making millions in his playing career, Sapp filed for bankruptcy in 2012 in Florida after owing more than $6.7 million to creditors and back child support and alimony.

In Monday’s incident, Phoenix police officers working security at a downtown hotel were investigating a noise disturbance about 2:30 a.m. when they were contacted by a woman alleging she had been assaulted.

“The incident was alleged to have occurred in a guest room, after meeting in the lobby while she and another female were there as escorts,” said Sgt. Trent Crump, a police spokesman. “During a meeting in the room, an argument ensued, allegedly over money and the altercation turned physical, spilling out into the hallway. During the investigation, detectives were able to establish that an act of prostitution occurred in the room by at least one of the females.”

Crump said Sapp was taken to police headquarters and questioned “and admitted involvement in the act of prostitution, but denied assaulting the females. Minor injuries consistent with a struggle were observed by investigators on both females.”

Police said Sapp was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on suspicion of soliciting prostitution and two counts of assault, both misdemeanor offenses.

They said one woman was cited for prostitution and released. The other woman was later located at a hotel in nearby Peoria and cited for a violation of the city’s escort permit requirements and released. Their names weren’t immediately released.

ASHWAUBENON –  It’s being called the Super Bowl in the sport of bowling.

For the next week, the best of the best will be knocking pins down in the Green Bay area.

The United States Bowling Congress is holding the 2015 Masters event for the first time in Ashwaubenon.

Organizers say the event is a positive strike for the economy.

“Good morning bowlers, I would like to welcome you to the 2015 U.S.B.C. Masters,” said a Tournament Official.

Hundreds of the top professional and amateurs practiced Monday morning at the Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley.

New Jersey’s Parker Bohn, III won the event near the turn of the century.

He says the Masters is always competitive.

“No matter where you’re ranked, trust me when I tell you even the players that are not ranked, this week are definitely going to compete against the best,” said Parker Bohn, III, Professional Bowler.

That includes amateur Chad Bellin of Green Bay. He says competing in the Masters is a life-long dream.

“The guys I grew up idolizing. Now, Here I am, bowling with them. So it’s something else,” said Chad Bellin, Amateur Bowler.

336 bowlers will compete throughout the week. The field will narrow to 64, and the best of the bracket will face off Sunday, live on ESPN.

“These guys are great athletes. And you’re going to see just how good they really are. They don’t miss their mark. They don’t miss spares. They are that good,” said Dave La Bar, Ashwaubenon Bowling Alley Co-Owner.

And the bowlers are expected to bring in big bucks as well. Tourism officials expect the impact to the local economy, is $700,000.

“Which is fantastic for February. It’s not a big tourism month. We’re expecting 1500 room nights, to come from this because they’re in all week of course,” said Brad Toll, Greater Green Bay Convention and Visitors Bureau President, C.E.O.

And while practice rolled on, many bowlers say consistency is key.

“You’re just worried about focusing on your game, and the games that you’re opponent is going to bowl. You can’t control what they’re going to do, but you certainly can control what you’re going to do,” said Bohn.

Bowling advocates say this summer more than 1,000 thousand bowlers will compete in five events.

BOSTON (AP) – The Super Bowl celebration for New Englanders and their beloved Patriots will have to wait another day as Boston continues to get battered by heavy snow.

Mayor Marty Walsh said the city will postpone a planned victory parade through downtown until Wednesday morning.

He said the city and team have both agreed to hold off on the parade due to Monday’s protracted snowstorm, which dumped more than a foot of fresh snow in the Boston area, making morning and evening commutes treacherous.

“We thank everyone for their flexibility and patience during the planning of this parade and we look forward to celebrating with Patriots fans during better weather on Wednesday,” he said in a joint statement with the team.

The city had announced earlier that the downtown parade would take place Tuesday. But with weather continuing to worsen, Boston public schools preemptively canceled Tuesday classes, the fifth snow day in the past week. A decision to cancel the parade followed shortly after.

Boston has seen a record 34.2 inches of snow over seven days, according to the National Weather Service. The previous seven-day record was 31.2 inches in January 1996.

Following their 28-24 victory over the defending champion Seattle Seahawks in Arizona, the Patriots flew back to Massachusetts as scores of flights in and out of Boston’s Logan airport were canceled or delayed Monday.

The latest snowstorm didn’t stop New Englanders from basking in the glow of their team’s fourth Super Bowl victory.

Todd Penney, of Coventry, Connecticut, was still recovering from a heady night of celebrating as he prepared for work Monday morning as a town engineer.

“My voice is very hoarse from screaming at the TV. I was all in last night,” he said. “It will be a lot more fun for me to snowblow this morning after the Patriots’ win, than if they would have lost, that’s for sure.”

Other fans recounted tense moments from the rollercoaster victory.

“It was an exciting game, a nail-biter to the end. You don’t get to see games like that very often,” said George Vemis, as he cleared the sidewalk in front of his variety store in Whitman, south of Boston.

Cheryl Happeny, a business analyst from Whitman, said the victory is especially satisfying because so many people outside of New England have been calling the team cheaters since the scandal over underinflated footballs in the Patriots’ winning game over the Indianapolis Colts erupted.

“It was a sweet victory,” she said. “I don’t think it will quiet the critics. I’m waiting for it to heat up again. Everyone hates the Patriots because we’re breaking so many records. …We’re like the Yankees of the NFL.”

At the Modell’s Sporting Goods in Cambridge, devoted fans trickled in Monday morning as thick fluffy clumps of snow fell, grabbing commemorative T-shirts and hats by the armful.

“It’s an early Valentine’s gift. I’m treating,” said Karen Rudgis, of Cambridge, who was buying shirts for her husband and two grown children.

Mike Kelley, who works next door at Staples, was buying T-shirts and hats for his daughter, brother-in-law and himself. “It’s an expensive day today,” he said. “I’ve already spent $100, and I’m already planning to spend $100 more.”

Modell’s employees said the biggest sellers so far were the white Super Bowl champion baseball caps the team wore Sunday for the locker room celebration. Wine glasses commemorating the victory also were selling surprisingly well, they said.

“It’d be a lot different if there wasn’t a blizzard right now. Later tonight, I would think, it would get busy,” said Jennifer Walcott, who had been among a number of staffers brought in from the store’s Hamden, Connecticut, location to help open up the Cambridge store promptly at 6 a.m. Monday.

From Boston to western Massachusetts, police reported that Patriots fans celebrated raucously but without mayhem late Sunday into Monday.

Crowds of mostly college-aged fans in Boston streamed into the streets outside the bars by Fenway Park and the city’s famous Common.

They screamed and chanted but remained mostly orderly. Boston police said there were no arrests. “Way to make your team & city proud,” the department tweeted.

In Boston, where schools were closed but subways were running Monday, Mayor Walsh held court in City Hall, reflecting on Sunday’s win and sketching out the upcoming celebration.

The championship parade, now slated to start at 11 a.m. Wednesday, will begin at the Hynes Convention Center. A fleet of 25 World War II-era amphibious “duck boats” – a staple of championship parades in Boston – will carry the team along Boylston Street, past the Common and onto City Hall.

“We’ll make sure the duck boats get through the snow,” Walsh said. “We’ll probably have plows in front of them, behind them, beside then, next to them, under them.”

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Associated Press writers Mark Pratt and Steve LeBlanc in Boston, Denise Lavoie in Whitman, Mass., Pat Eaton-Robb in Coventry, Conn. and Steve Singer in Hartford, Conn., contributed to this report.

DETROIT (AP) – Hundreds of people have contributed tens of thousands of dollars to help a Detroit man who says he typically walks 21 miles to get to and from work.

The Detroit Free Press reports that James Robertson rides buses part of the way to and from his factory job in suburban Rochester Hills, but because they don’t cover the whole route, he ends up walking about eight miles before his shift starts at 2 p.m. and 13 more when it’s over at 10. Lately, he’s been getting occasional rides from a banker who passed him walking every day and finally asked what he was doing.

After the newspaper wrote about the 56-year-old’s situation over the weekend, multiple people started crowdfunding efforts to help him buy a car and pay for insurance. Some have offered to drive him for free and others have offered to buy or give him cars.

Robertson began making the daily trek to the factory where he molds parts after his car stopped working ten years ago and bus service was cut back. He’s had perfect attendance for more than 12 years.

“I set our attendance standard by this man,” said Todd Wilson, plant manager at Schain Mold & Engineering. “I say, if this man can get here, walking all those miles through snow and rain, well I’ll tell you, I have people in Pontiac 10 minutes away and they say they can’t get here – bull!”

Evan Leedy, a 19-year-old student at Wayne State University, read the story and started a GoFundMe site with the goal of raising $5,000. As of Monday afternoon he had raised more than $70,000.

Robertson said he was flattered by the attention and amazed strangers would step in to help him out.

Asked about a federal program newly available through Detroit’s bus system that might pick him up at home and drop him off at his job, Robertson said, “I’d rather they spent that money on a 24-hour bus system, not on some little bus for me. This city needs buses going 24/7. You can tell the city council and mayor I said that.”

LITTLE ROCK – Former Packers tight end DJ Williams was known as an entertaining interview during his time in Green Bay, occasionally regaling reporters with stories of his “cow wrestling” days (non-fiction stories, he notes). Now he’s the one doing the interviewing.

“They want me to be the Michael Strahan of Arkansas TV,” said Williams.

Williams is currently a free agent hoping to catch back on with an NFL team, but in the meantime he has a new gig: co-host of KARK 4 Today, a morning news show in Little Rock, Arkansas. The tight end says it’s a good thing he’s always been an early riser: his alarm clock these days is set for 3:30am.

“For the first time in my life in almost anything, I hit a huge speed bump when it came to sports and what I had going on.”

—DJ Williams, Former Packers Tight End

Williams says he’s had a relationship with the TV station since playing high school football at nearby Central Arkansas Christian and in college for the Razorbacks in Fayetteville. He did some guest appearances with the station, breaking down the AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl featuring the University of Arkansas and the University of Texas.

“The director and the anchor sat down and brought me in with the GM and asked me if I’d be interested in pursuing that career,” said Williams. “I said ‘for sure.’”

Williams had a standout college career for Arkansas, winning the John Mackey Award in 2010, given to the nation’s top tight end. The Packers made him a 5th round draft pick in 2010 and spent two seasons with the team. He was with the Jaguars and Patriots in 2013 and briefly with Tampa Bay in 2014.

The tight end focuses on training after work at the TV station – he’s on the air from 5-7am, and feels “really professional when I show up to train” in a suit. He’s hopeful this phase of his media career is a short one and he ends up back in an NFL camp by the Spring.

“I’ve always done football and it’s always come natural,” said Williams. “It’s always taken care of itself. For the first time in my life in almost anything, I hit a huge speed bump when it came to sports and what I had going on.”

As for the new job at KARK, unsurprisingly to his coworkers and those who remember his interviews as a Packer, Williams is catching on quickly. He’s working on reading off a teleprompter, but is already branching out to interview guests on the show, not just talk about sports. Working in TV, he says, is less structured than the football world.

“I’m used to having an idea of what we’re doing for practice the day before, if not two days before,” said Williams. “[In TV] I get there at 4 o’clock, 4:30, I go on at 5, they say, ‘ok, this is what we might talk about today. I’m like, ‘oh crap.’

“Right now I pretty much have somebody holding my hand, putting me in front of the camera, telling me which camera to look at. They say, ‘just be DJ.’”

Williams is still a fan of his former teams, which he says surprises many who expect him to be bitter about getting let go, especially cheering on the Packers through the playoffs and the Patriots in their Super Bowl win. He’s still close with several current Packers players including receiver Randall Cobb and fellow tight end Brandon Bostick, a guy who just found himself in the spotlight after failing to recover an onside kick in the NFC Championship Game against Seattle.

“You see that backlash one of my very good friends had, [Brandon] Bostick,” said Williams. “It’s just, it’s very unfortunate to see because I know how hard he works, how much he cares about the game. Stuff happens. I know the type of guy he is, he’s going to pick it up, move on and do well.”

There is one area Williams is a little upset about with his former teammates: he helped start a tight end tradition in 2011 where the group donned their best holiday sweaters and sent out a Christmas card. The tradition continued through this past season, but:

“No I didn’t get no tight end Christmas card,” said Williams. “They shouldn’t be able to do that without the original crew there.”

WASHINGTON D.C. – One high ranking U.S. military official claims there are terrorists training sites, most of them biding their time amongst us stateside.

Retired Admiral James Lyons Jr. spent nearly 40 years in the U.S. Navy commanding a U.S. Pacific fleet in the ‘80’s. Lyons formed the Navy’s “Red-Cell,” a group of Navy Seals he founded after the Beirut Marine barracks bombing in 1983.

Lyons says there may be as many as 35 terrorist training sights.

Senator Lindsey Graham chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism. He says that estimated number of cells is news to him however says, “The likelihood of somebody being in our country, given the amount of foreign fighters who‘ve gone through Syria and Iraq, is really great. Embedded terror cells are nothing new to America after all the 9-11 hijackers were embedded and disciplined in the art of self-control, anticipating what they believe to be a higher calling and eradicating our way of life. To believe that there is not a sleeper cell somewhere in America is probably naïve.”

Lyons gave us a list of where some of these alleged sights are. We contacted the FBI and have yet to get a response, which is why we won’t show the list.

Still not everyone believes the cells exist.

Kamal Nawash of the Free Muslims Coalition says, “The FBI, they’d be all over that, so I don’t believe that to be true, not for a second.”

Lyon blames our leaders on both sides of the aisle.

“They have failed to provide the political courage to take the action that we should do to protect this great country of ours,” Lyons said, *the enemy only has to be right once.”

 

Jeff Barnd also contacted the Department of Homeland Security, we have yet to hear back from them.

MADISON – Want to have your say in the planned takeover of WPS’s parent company by We Energies’ parent company?

The state Public Service Commission has scheduled two public hearings – one in Green Bay and one in Milwaukee.

Last June, Wisconsin Energy Corp. announced plans to buy Integrys for $9.1 billion. Wisconsin Energy Corp. owns We Energies, which operates mainly in the Fox Valley and Milwaukee areas. Integrys owns Green Bay-based Wisconsin Public Service, which serves much of the rest of Northeast Wisconsin. The new company, WEC Energy Group, would serve more than 4.3 million gas an electric customers in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota.

State regulators say WPS and We Energies would continue to operate as separate utilities and the rates approved by the PSC late last year would not change until new applications are filed.

The public hearings are set for:

3 p.m. Feb. 25
Urban Ecology Center
1500 East Park Place
Milwaukee

3 p.m. Feb. 26
Bay Beach Wildlife Sanctuary
1660 East Shore Drive
Green Bay

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APPLETON – A city in the Fox Valley was recently named one of the top 10 best affordable places to live in 2015.

According to the editors at Liveability.com, Appleton is among the top 10 cities in the U.S. due to the low cost of living and the great parks, trails, restaurants and business climate it has to offer residents.

Liveability.com factored in the cost of living for health care, food, taxes, housing and transportation using data from C2ER and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to come up with the list.

You can view the full list here.

Liveablity also made a list of the best 100 places to live in the U.S. Madison topped the list at number one, while other Wisconsin cities like Eau Claire was voted number 59 and La Crosse, number 95.

 

 

An email claiming to be a Better Business Bureau questionnaire is actually a “phishing” scheme, the group warns.

The email may have gone out to tens of thousands of businesses across the country, the BBB says. The email asks the recipient to open a “BBB SBQ” (standard business questionnaire). However, the file actually links to a website that can download malware onto the user’s computer.

The emails are coming from the domain “BBBL.org,” which the BBB says is not a BBB domain name. The group says the domain name is registered to someone in Antwerp, Belgium.

The BBB says it is working to have the website taken down.

The group offers the following tips to protect your information:

• Do not click on links or open attachments in unsolicited email.
• If your email program allows it, tag the email as spam.
• Report the email to your Internet Service Provider.
• If you are unsure if an email is legitimate, call the sender using a phone number that you know to be correct (not from the email).
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Officials with a Florida company looking to dig a huge iron mine just south of Lake Superior say field work has come to a standstill but they’re not abandoning the project.

Gogebic Taconite spokesman Bob Seitz says the company has ended consulting contracts and no work is being done at the site. He says staffers are focusing on analyzing data gathered over the summer.

He says the company is concerned federal officials could propose severe restrictions similar to ones they’re considering applying to the Pebble gold mine in Alaska. He says Gogebic surveyors have found far more wetlands in the area than anticipated.

He says the company also is considering scrapping plans for extending the mine across the Iron County line into Ashland County.

ARCADIA, Wis. (AP) – A federal safety agency wants to fine Ashley Furniture Industries Inc. $1.76 million for worker injuries at its Arcadia plant.

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the penalties Monday.

OSHA says the plant saw more than 1,000 work-related injuries in a 3-and-a-half-year period. One worker lost three fingers in July while operating a woodworking machine.

Investigators identified 12 willful, 12 repeated and 14 serious safety violations at the plant. Ashley Furniture has now been placed in the Severe Violator Enforcement Program for failing to address safety hazards.

U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez accused the furniture maker of creating a culture “that values production and profit over worker safety.”

Ashley Furniture says it “strongly disputes” the allegations and believes the proposed penalties are “grossly inappropriate and overzealous.”

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley has raised $265,000 so far in her re-election campaign.

Bradley reported Monday that she had raised that much through the end of last year.

Her challenger, Rock County Circuit Judge James Daley, had yet to file his report that was due by the end of Monday.

The winner to be elected on April 7 will serve a 10-year term. Bradley was first elected in 1995 and is considered to be a part of the liberal minority on the officially nonpartisan court.

Daley has generated support from conservatives as he tries to unseat Bradley.

In recent years, outside groups with partisan interests have spent heavily on Supreme Court races, far surpassing spending by the actual candidates.

Jail booking photos from February.

DE PERE — Defending NCAA Division-III national champion St. Norbert men’s hockey will have to overcome a significant injury to win a second straight title. Senior goalie David Jacobson is expected to miss the remainder of the season with a fractured fibula, according to head coach Tim Coghlin.

The Green Knights are currently ranked 5th in the country by D3Hockey.com and are on a 3-game losing streak, having dropped two games this past weekend to 4th ranked Adrian.

Jacobson was 5th in the country in goals allowed average at 1.59 per game and third in shutouts with 3. His 75 career wins are third most all-time in D-III history.

St. Norbert is next in action Friday at home against the College of St. Scholastica.

BROWN COUNTY (DOT) – The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is announcing nightly, full closures of eastbound and westbound WIS 172 the week of Feb. 2 as crews set bridge girders on US 41 over WIS 172.

Closure and detour information for eastbound WIS 172 is as follows:

• Eastbound WIS 172, between the off-ramp to southbound US 41 and the on-ramp from northbound US 41, will close nightly, 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 2 and Tuesday, Feb. 3.
  • Eastbound WIS 172 traffic will be detoured onto southbound US 41, take southbound US 41 to Oneida Street, follow Oneida east to northbound US 41 and take US 41 northbound to eastbound WIS 172.
• The southbound US 41 ramp to eastbound WIS 172 will close nightly, 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 2 and Tuesday, Feb. 3.
  • Southbound US 41 traffic seeking eastbound WIS 172 will be detoured off at Oneida Street, follow Oneida east to northbound US 41 and take northbound US 41 to eastbound WIS 172.

Closure and detour information for westbound WIS 172 is as follows:

• Westbound WIS 172 between the off-ramp to northbound US 41 and the on-ramp to southbound US 41 will close nightly, 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Wednesday Feb. 4 and Thursday, Feb. 5.
  • Westbound WIS 172 traffic will be detoured onto northbound US 41, take northbound US 41 to Lombardi Avenue, follow Lombardi Avenue west to southbound US 41 and take southbound US 41 to westbound WIS 172.

• The northbound US 41 ramp to westbound WIS 172 will close nightly, 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 4 and Thursday Feb. 5.
  • Northbound US 41 traffic seeking westbound WIS 172 will be detoured off at Lombardi Avenue, take Lombardi Avenue west to southbound US 41 and follow southbound US 41 to westbound US 41.

All lane restrictions and work operations are weather dependent and subject to change.

Log on to www.us41wisconsin.gov for details of all projects.

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