No one was injured in a three-vehicle accident near Durand on Hwy 10 on Thursday. According to the Pepin County Sheriff's Department, 16yr old Cadence Bauer of Durand was stopped on Hwy 10 waiting to make a left turn onto Hwy P, when her vehicle was rear-ended by a westbound truck driven by 45yr old Bradlee Holmstadt of Plum City. Holmstadt's vehicle then struck a Wisconsin State Patrol Squad that was on the side of the road for a traffic stop.
One person is dead after an ATV accident in the town of Ettrick on Thursday. According to the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Department, the department had received a report of an elderly male who had not returned home or been heard from since Wednesday. Deputies found the man while searching an area near Lindberg Lane and found the male pinned under an ATV. It appears the ATV had struck an embankment and then overturned pinning the man underneath. The victim's name has not been released.
A Dunn County man is headed to federal prison for trafficking meth. According to the Department of Justice, 42yr old Adam Beliveau of Downing was living with his girlfriend and had a package with 4 pounds of meth inside shipped from California to the residence in September 2020. Beliveau was arrested in November of 2020 and authorities also found over 1100 grams of meth and $30,000 in cash in his vehicle. Beliveau was sentenced to 12 and a half years in prison and is still facing additional charges in Eau Claire and St. Croix Counties.
A Cumberland man has been sentenced to five years in prison for causing a fatal Barron County crash two years ago while he was impaired. Twenty-nine-year-old Cody Hase was charged with homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle. Prosecutors say Hase was under the influence of a controlled substance when he tried to pass a car in a no-passing zone in the Town of Stanfold. W-E-A-U/T-V reports the driver of an oncoming van was killed in the head-on crash that happened on September 30th, 2020.
Lawyers say a settlement is likely in a civil wrongful death lawsuit filed over a fatal school bus stop accident two years ago in Plainfield. Six-year-old Maryana Kranz was killed just outside her home while she was waiting for the bus. Seventy-six-year-old Carl Mullenix drove his pickup on the right side of the stopped bus, hitting the victim and her sister. Criminal charges have been dropped in the case due to Mullenix’s mental condition. A September 23rd hearing date has been set where the details of the settlement should be finalized.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is going to have to defeat his challenger a second time. Vos won the Republican primary last week by just 260 votes over Adam Steen. Now, Steen has announced he is launching a write-in campaign to represent Wisconsin’s 63rd Assembly District. Former President Donald Trump endorsed him before the primary. Steen says about 25 hundred people didn’t know about that endorsement when they voted on August 9th.
The Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development reports the state added more than 19 thousand jobs during July. Minnesota added new jobs at more than twice the national rate over the last two months. Sixty-seven hundred of the new workers are in the hospitality field, with 45 hundred in government jobs and 39 hundred in professional and business services. Job losses were seen in the financial sector.
The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development reports Wisconsin added 10,000 private-sector jobs and 9,900 total nonfarm jobs in July. Wisconsin's unemployment rate remains at historic lows dropping .2% to 3% in July. So far this year the state has added 40,000 private-sector jobs and 36,000 total nonfarm jobs.
Wisconsin Dells-based BlueStone safety is making customized bulletproof products that can be used by students. With school shootings becoming more frequent, protection and safety are on the minds of parents these days as they get ready for the fall term. W-M-T-V reports BlueStone’s main product is bulletproof vests for law enforcement. You can now find bulletproof T-shirts and backpack inserts on the company’s website. A spokesperson says the demand for the T-shirts and backpack inserts has spiked recently. The company has offered those safety products for the last 10 years.
A Dane County judge on Wednesday ordered the Office of Special Counsel to pay fines, for the days it took attorney Michael Gableman to prove he’d done enough as part of an open records lawsuit, stemming from his review of the 2020 election in Wisconsin. Judge Frank Remington found Gableman has now done enough to purge his contempt order, but he also revoked Gablemen's attorneys ability to participate in the case. That includes lead lawyer James Bopp of Indiana. Remington was critical of Gableman’s Office of Special Counsel, writing it “had accomplished nothing” between August 30 and December 4 of last year. The office’s legal team has already filed an appeal that Bopp said will seek to overturn Remington’s rulings, including the 24-thousand dollars in fines and attorneys fees awarded to American Oversight, which brought the suit.
Early polling for the November election shows Democrats leading two major Wisconsin races. The latest Marquette Law School Poll was released Wednesday. It shows Democratic Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes with a seven-point lead over incumbent Republican U-S Senator Ron Johnson. The governor’s race is a toss-up. Incumbent Democratic Governor Tony Evers holds a two-point lead over his challenger, Republican businessman Tim Michels. That lead was seven points in June when Michels was still involved in his party’s primary campaign. Respondents were also asked about abortion. Thirty-three percent of Republicans and 94 percent of Democrats say abortion should be legal in most or all cases.
A friend who was with George Floyd when he was killed has, for a second time, invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying in the upcoming trial of two former Minneapolis police officers charged with aiding and abetting. The Star-Tribune reports that Morries Lester Hall also took the Fifth at the trial of Derek Chauvin. Chauvin’s attorney said Hall’s testimony could have revealed that Floyd used drugs before the deadly encounter with Minneapolis police.
Construction of the U-S-S Constellation frigate is scheduled to begin at the end of this month. The U-S Navy just awarded a 39-million dollar contract modification to Fincantieri Marinette Marine. W-L-U-K/T-V reports that means the total value of the contract awarded two years ago for nine additional Constellation-class Frigates is about five-and-a-half-billion dollars. The majority of the work on the project is to be done in Marinette.
Scientists are becoming concerned about increasing numbers of dangerous algae blooms on northern Wisconsin lakes where they usually aren’t found. W-A-O-W/T-V reports blue-green algae was spotted on Mole Lake in Forest County last week. U-W-Madison professor Emily Stanley says cooler lakes that are less nutrient-rich have not historically had the blooms. The algae can make the lake water look like pea soup and it can produce toxins that can sicken or even kill human beings and their pets.
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