Survivor: '[I was] clinically dead, and I was that way for 20 minutes'   

Sudden cardiac arrest kills 1,000 people a day in the U.S., which is roughly one person every two minutes.  Would you know what to do if you saw someone collapse in front of you?

Channel3000.com and WISC-TV are proud to partner with St. Mary’s Hospital on Saturday for Hands on Hearts -- a community-wide event offering free compression-only CPR .

COCPR is a hands-only technique to help those in sudden cardiac arrest. The constant compressions are performed 100 times a minute to the center of a patient's chest. The compressions keep oxygen-rich blood flowing to the heart and brain. Mouth-to-mouth rescue breaths are not needed.

When compression-only CPR is used on a victim of cardiac arrest, the chance of surviving increases greatly.

Prescriptions contribute to accidental poisonings, Dane County's largest injury-related cause of death  

Police, pharmacies and clinics are drawing awareness to National Prescription Take Back Day, happening Friday and Saturday at several locations.

The goal of the collection day is to reduce the number of expired, unused and unwanted medicine.

Poisoning deaths are more common than automobile deaths in Dane County. Unused prescriptions contribute to accidental poisonings, the number one cause of injury-related death, according to the Middleton Police Department.

A statement by Middleton police emphasized pain medications as an especially dangerous prescription group.

Record to beat is 19 scoops in 1 minute   

Rainbow sprinkles, sticky fingers, and smiles were in high supply as children of all ages indulged in their favorite ice cream flavor on March 9 when Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream on State Street held its grand reopening event.

Guests lingered around the shop until 2 p.m. when Steve Heaps, co-owner of the State Street location, attempted to break the Guinness World Record for Most Ice Cream Cones Prepared in One Minute, a record currently held by Baskin-Robbins’ Mitch Cohen with 19 scoops. Heaps scooped 17 vanilla ice cream cones in a practice round earlier that week.

At 2 p.m., and again at 7 p.m., Heaps scooped 14 vanilla ice cream cones in one minute. Although he did not break the Guinness record, Heaps handed out the cones to the crowd with a smile on his face.