Four people were injured in a two-vehicle accident in Oak Grove Township on Sunday. According to the Pierce County Sheriffs Department, 47yr old Renee Hendrickson of Ellsworth was traveling eastbound on Hwy 10 when she drove left of center and entered the westbound lane. A westbound vehicle driven by 29yr old Kayla Wennberg of Burnsville, MN attempted an evasive maneuver but the two vehicles hit head-on. Wennberg and her two children were taken to River Falls Area Hospital, while Hendrickson was med-flighted to Regions Hospital. That accident remains under investigation.
Representatives from Pierce Pepin Cooperative Services and Dairyland power debuted a new EV charging station at Vino in the Valley on Saturday. With this installation, PPCS is partnering with Vino in the Valley to encourage tourism in Pierce County by electric vehicle drivers. PPCS is a founding member of CHARGE EV, LLC, whose mission is to build an EV charging network across the nation in rural cooperative territories. CHARGE has grown from 31 electric cooperatives to nearly 100 spread across the upper Midwest, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, and Oregon.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) confirm that an unvaccinated yearling Standardbred gelding in Trempealeau County has tested positive for West Nile Virus (WNV). It is the state’s first confirmed case of WNV in a horse this year. While humans can be infected by WNV, the virus does not pass directly between people and horses. The only route of transmission is from a mosquito bite. Mosquitoes transmit the virus from birds, which serve as natural reservoirs for WNV. Since humans and equines acquire WNV from mosquitoes, the threat of WNV normally occurs when mosquitoes are most active, from mid-to-late summer until the first killing frost. DATCP encourages equine owners to speak with their veterinarians about vaccinating their horses for WNV.
A woman is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the killing of her fiancé in New Richmond in far western Wisconsin. Fifty-three-year-old Marian Kaitlyn Smith of New Richmond is also charged with two counts of resisting or obstructing an officer. Her fiancé, 48-year-old Shaun Lewis, was found in a home Saturday with multiple wounds and was pronounced dead after first responders failed to revive him. New Richmond is about 40 miles east of Saint Paul and is part of the Greater Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Whitehall Police and the Wisconsin Department of Corrections have announced that a registered sex offender will be living in that city. 54yr old Brian Roach will be released on September 6th and will be living in the city. As a condition of his release, Roach must follow all sex offender registry requirements, have a GPS monitor register as a sex offender for 15yrs, and have no internet access or any unsupervised contact with any children or his victims. He pleaded no contest in 2019 to exposing himself to a child and causing mental harm to a child. He was sentenced to 3 1/2 yrs in prison and 5yrs of extended supervision.
Opening statements have been given in the Monroe County trial for a man accused of using an axe to kill his grandfather last year. Prosecutors played 9-1-1 audio from the day of the attack in court Monday. Eighty-seven-year-old Bernard Waite was killed and two relatives were seriously injured inside a home in Sparta. W-K-B-T/T-V reports 37-year-old Thomas Aspseter is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, two counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and two counts of aggravated battery. The defense isn’t challenging the fact that Aspseter used an axe while committing the crime.
A new poll finds close top-of-ticket races in Wisconsin’s November elections. Polling from Atlanta-based Trafalgar Group indicates tight races for both governor and US Senate. Trafalgar found 48 percent of likely voters surveyed backing Democratic governor Tony Evers, 47 and-a-half percent supported construction executive Tim Michaels, the Republican candidate. In the Senate race, just under 49 and-a-half percent back Democratic Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes. Just over 47 percent supported US Senator Ron Johnson. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.
Republican members of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee say they should have a final version of a plan to spend the state’s opioid settlement money soon. Co-chair Mark Born appeared on W-K-O-W/T-V’s “Capitol City Sunday.” Born says lawmakers are working on the plan right now. He expects it will be finalized “in the next couple of weeks.” The budget committee didn’t approve the plan submitted by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, but members also didn’t specify what they objected to. Democrats have pushed for the release of six-million dollars to cover things like Narcan and fentanyl test strips.
A pro-life group is readying a different strategy to try to ban abortion in Minnesota. Retiring state Representative Tim Miller from Prinsburg, who now works for Pro Life Action Ministries, says the plan is to go community-by-community. Miller says they’re going to be attempting to pass pro-life ordinances in communities, saying ‘no abortions in this town -- which he’s calling a “grassroots effort.” Hamline University analyst David Schultz says such local ordinances would be unconstitutional under the Minnesota Supreme Court decision in the Doe-V-Gomez case.
There’s hope that the price of gas may be coming down even further in southeast Wisconsin. Winter blend gasoline can now be sold in southeast Wisconsin, thanks to a fire that knocked a refinery offline in Indiana making summer-blend fuels. The Environmental Protection Agency waiver for four Midwestern states means gas stations can sell winter-blend gas for now. Winter-grade fuels are easier to make and historically cheaper. Gas Buddy says there’s no telling how this new development may change the price at the pump.
A piece of the future USS Wisconsin is now on display in Madison. The piece of the new nuclear submarine USS Wisconsin made its way to the Wisconsin Veterans Museum this weekend. It's part of a display celebrating the new submarine currently under construction in Virginia. The Columbia Class submarine will be the first vessel to bear Wisconsin's name since the retirement of the Battleship USS Wisconsin which served in three different wars since its construction during World War II. The new sub is set for completion in 2030.
More than 40 thousand Minnesota veterans are eligible for a post-Nine-Eleven service bonus through the state. Department of Veterans Affairs Commissioner Larry Herke says the legislature approved grants this year for those who have served in the military over the last 20 years. He confirms the bonus itself is between 600 and two-thousand dollars, depending on the level of participation. To apply for it you have to have served during that time, started your service in Minnesota, and just prove that you are currently a Minnesota resident. Around 16 thousand veterans have already applied for a post-Nine-Eleven service bonus through their county veterans service officer or online at m-n-veteran-dot-org.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has identified what caused a recent fish kill in the Fox River and low Green Bay area. State scientists say the fish were diagnosed with severe cases of the bacterial disease columnaris. W-L-U-K/T-V reports the D-N-R estimates 99 percent of the dead fish found were adult channel catfish. The state agency started its investigation in mid-June after receiving multiple reports about the dead fish. Most were found downstream from the De Pere Dam and in lower Green Bay.
While many visitors to the Minnesota State Fair say this year feels like a return to normal, some have expressed concerns about safety in the wake of reported crime increases statewide. Chief of the State Fair Police Department Ron Knafla is encouraging the public to “come out and enjoy the fair” and leave the safety and security to them. Knafla says more than 50 agencies are working for the State Fair police department to ensure fairgoers’ safety this year.
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