A hiker who became lost on Thursday is ok. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, deputies were called after 75yr old Charles Brion of Nelson did not return from his walk in the Tiffany Wildlife area. Buffalo and Pepin County Deputies using a drone along with a K-9 unit searched for Brion who was found approximately 6miles from his vehicle at 12:49am on Friday morning.
The City of Durand will be shutting off some of the lights along Hwy 10 from the bridge to the travel mart. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says there are 62 lights along that stretch of Hwy 10. The city will leave the lights on at intersections and when replacing the lights use the newer LED lights.
The Wabasha County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help in locating a hit-and-run driver. According to the department, an SUV, possibly a Chevrolet Blazer struck a young child in Downtown Wabasha under the bridge on Saturday afternoon. The female driver left the scene of the accident after seeing the girl did not sustain life-threatening injuries. The driver is described as in her 60s, shoulder-length dark hair and a heavier build. If anyone has any information they are to contact the Wabasha County Sheriff's Department.
Three people are looking at nearly two dozen felony counts for stealing guns, bullets, and rocket launchers from an Eau Claire County home. Prosecutors filed the charges on Friday. Two of the suspects are accused of stealing the guns, and the third is accused of buying them. The Sheriff's Office says 15 guns, five thousand rounds of ammunition, and military-grade rocket launchers were taken from a home in the town of Drammen last weekend. Investigators say they found some of the guns, but it's not clear if they recovered the rocket launchers and ammunition.
A postal worker in Barron County faces federal mail tampering charges for allegedly intercepting Menards rebate checks Residents in the Rice Lake and Cumberland area who were looking to save big money with the popular 11 percent rebate credit checks instead may have been swindled by 37-year-old Joshua Copas- who investigators say took the checks out of the mail before they could be delivered. The indictment alleges that the scheme occurred between April and May of this year, investigators haven't said if Copas kept them for himself or others.
The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train is returning to Wisconsin and Minnesota after a two-year hiatus. It'll make six Wisconsin stops, Watertown, Columbus, Portage, Wisconsin Dells, Mauston, and Tomah on December 9th and 10th. The train will make stops in Winona, Wabasha, and Hasting on December 11. The holiday train raises money for local food banks but has been unable to operate for the last two years because of the coronavirus pandemic.
There is a warning about a serial Culver's robber in southeastern Wisconsin. Police in Lake Mills say they are looking for a man driving a maroon Jeep who robbed their Culver's drive-through last month. Investigators say he is also suspected of robbing Culver's Mequon and Janesville. No one is saying why the man is targeting Culver's. His pictures are online, and police are asking anyone who knows anything to please come forward.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is no longer installing its smart warning system at rural intersections. The system uses a flashing beacon to alert drivers to oncoming traffic. MnDOT traffic engineers say the Rural Intersection Conflict Warning System didn't "significantly" reduce crashes in the state. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says nearly two-thirds of crashes leading to serious injury or death in the state happen at rural intersections.
There's a new report that Republicans say shows that Wisconsin is spending more money than ever on public schools. The report from the Legislative Fiscal Bureau came out last week and shows the state spent over seven-and-a-half billion-dollars on state aid for public schools last year. That's up from seven-point-three billion in 2020, and seven-point-three billion in 2019. The report also comes as the state's Department of Public Instruction gets ready to release its state aid numbers for this year. Those will come out later today. Republican State Senator Duey Stroebel says the numbers burst the myth that Republican lawmakers have underfunded public schools in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating a deadly officer-involved shooting in Windsor. The Wisconsin Department of Justice says a Dane County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a person at the Super 8 hotel on Lake Circle last night. It's still unclear what circumstances led up to the shooting. The deputy is on leave pending an investigation into the shooting.
Democratic incumbent Angie Craig and Republican challenger Tyler Kistner are displaying a deep policy divide after the first and only debate. It was held at Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount on Thursday. Up until now, much of the Minnesota 2nd District congressional race has been playing out in negative TV ads, many being paid for by organizations from outside of Minnesota. The two were quick to offer competing views of abortion and the role of the federal government as inflation came up repeatedly during the hour-long, heated discussion. This is the second election cycle where Craig and Kistner are facing off as Craig won in 2020 and is seeking a third term this year.
Three of the 49 people charged in an alleged quarter-billion-dollar scheme to defraud government meal programs are pleading guilty. Bekam Addissu Merdassa and Hanna Marekegn, and Hadith Yusuf Ahmed entered pleas at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis on Thursday, in the case linked to the nonprofit Feeding Our Future. Prosecutors charged them with criminal information, rather than through a grand jury indictment, so guilty pleas were expected. Authorities say the Twin Cities-based nonprofit stood at the center of a network of shell companies controlled by people who used federal child nutrition money to buy cars, luxury goods, jewelry, and property in the United States, Kenya, and Turkey.
A three-thousand-year-old canoe may not be the only artifact sitting just below the waters of Lake Mendota. State archaeologists say there could be an entire village waiting to be discovered. Researchers and historians pulled the canoe out of the lake last month. It is the oldest canoe ever found in the area. State Archaeologist Dr. James Skibo says his team is now going to see what else they can find, with the expectation that they will find something.
Twenty years ago, if you'd asked where the nearest “TYME Machine” was on the streets of New York City or Atlanta, all you'd likely get would be a funny look. But the Take Your Money Everywhere ATMs were once ubiquitous here in the Upper Midwest. The brand was created as a partnership between four Milwaukee banks in the 1970s and had more than 27,000 ATMs in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, and Minnesota. The brand disappeared in 2004 but it’s now being revived by Landmark Credit Union as part of the marketing strategy for its new line of advanced ATMs.
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