A 12yr old is dead after a snowmobile accident in Wabasha County Sunday. According to the Wabasha County Sheriff's Department, deputies and emergency personnel responded to rural Theilman after the snowmobile struck a tree. Life-saving measures were given but the 12yr old was pronounced dead at the scene. The name of the victim was not released.
Minnesota and Western Wisconsin will see above-normal temperatures in the next couple of weeks. The National Weather Service's six to ten-day temperature outlook gives Minnesota and Western Wisconsin a 50 to 60 percent chance to see above-normal temperatures. In the next eight to 14 days the eastern half of Minnesota and Western Wisconsin will have a 70 to 80 percent chance to see above-normal temperatures.
The sheriff in Buffalo County says a tanker wreck could have been worse. Sheriff Mike Osmond says the tanker rolled down a steep hill and landed in a ditch Saturday morning. Deputies say the truck couldn't make it up the slick road on County Highway KK, slid backward, then rolled down the hill. The driver was the only person in the truck and wasn't injured. No one is saying just what was inside the tank at the time.
Eau Claire's school board is being asked to support the push for a universal free school lunch program in Wisconsin. The school board will vote on the idea tonight. It's one of several resolutions that the Wisconsin Association of School Boards is asking local schools to support. There is no word just what it would cost to feed every school kid in Wisconsin for free, or just where that money would come from.
It's not how the Milwaukee School of Engineering's wrestling team expected to end its weekend. The team bus caught fire Saturday night as they were returning from a wrestling meet in Minnesota. No one was hurt, and everyone made it off the burning bus in time. The sheriff in Barron County allowed the team and their coaches to stay at the sheriff's office until a new bus could come and pick them up. The sheriff is looking for the cause of the fire.
The stepfather of a 14-year-old boy killed in a shooting at a Woodbury graduation party is facing prison time. Keith Dawson was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison after he fired warning shots from a vehicle outside a party where a group of young men attending had pointed a gun at his stepson, Demaris Hobbs-Ekdahl. The men fired back, killing Demaris. The judge called the case an "anomaly," but said that using a firearm to settle a dispute is "ill-advised and dangerous." Minnesota sentencing guidelines called for nearly nine years in prison.
Republican lawmakers at the Wisconsin Capitol are not wasting any time in getting a constitutional amendment on bail changes to a vote. A Senate committee will have a hearing tomorrow on the plan to change the Wisconsin Constitution to allow judges to consider more things when setting bail. The constitution right now requires bail for everyone and stops judges from considering just how serious the crime is, or how serious the suspect's criminal record is. The hope is to fast-track the votes in the Capitol to get the bail amendment on the spring ballot.
Wisconsin will soon be on the list of states with a TikTok ban. Governor Evers on Friday said he'll sign an executive order sometime this week that bans TikTok from state phones, tablets, and computers. Republicans have been calling for a ban for weeks, saying TikTok's Chinese owners can track American users and censor the news they see. The governor says he spoke with both the FBI and Wisconsin Emergency Management officials and decided it was best to ban TikTok from state phones. The governor doesn't personally use TikTok, but his campaign created an account for him for the November election.
A Minnesota National Guard nurse is being honored with the nation's highest flight award. Major Katie Lunning was presented with the Distinguished Flying Cross on Saturday. She was honored for her actions following the 2021 Kabul Airport suicide attack. Lunning aided the injured and evacuated 22 patients in the aftermath of the attack. She is the second nurse to earn the award and the first in the National Guard. Lunning is one of 12 women in the military to receive the award.
It's now a billion-dollar-plus Mega Millions jackpot. No one won during Friday night's drawing, which means tomorrow's drawing will now be worth one point one billion dollars. This is only the third time that Mega Millions has topped the billion-dollar mark. The lump sum cash prize for tomorrow night's drawing is 568 million, before taxes.
Governor Tony Evers has declared Wisconsin's second energy emergency in a month because of severe winter weather on Friday. The order will provide a 30-day waiver allowing fuel suppliers to catch up on deliveries delayed due to weather. Evers said the waiver also will allow for out-of-state utility restoration crews to arrive faster. The governor said weeks of severe winter weather have had impacts on the distribution of residential heating fuel, including heating oil and propane and the order will allow for the delivery of those products.
A northwest Wisconsin man has been sentenced to prison for the fatal shooting of a neighbor. Sixty-five-year-old Randy Erickson of the Town of Bayfield is sentenced to 15 years in prison and 10 years extended supervision on a conviction for second-degree intentional homicide. Erickson was found guilty last August of killing 64-year-old Michael Kinney, when a long-standing dispute between the two turned violent on May 8, 2020. Erikson’s attorneys argued he was acting in self-defense because Kinney threatened him with a shovel. Prosecutors argued Kinney’s intentions were clear: cellphone video of the confrontation revealed Erickson repeatedly saying he was going to kill Kinney before firing nine shots, hitting him three times.
Wisconsin's U.S. senators are signaling they will start over the vetting process for a vacancy on the federal bench in Green Bay. A spokesperson for Oshkosh Republican Ron Johnson told WisPolitics.com that Johnson continues to oppose Milwaukee County Judge William Pocan over bail he set in a 2014 case. Pocan increased bail for a man charged with stealing a car and running over the owner from $2500 to $5000 following a request from prosecutors. The judge is the brother of Democratic congressman Mark Pocan. A spokesperson for Senator Tammy Baldwin told WisPolitics.com the Madison Democrat "plans to re-form the bipartisan nominating commission and is looking to fill this vacancy as expeditiously as possible."
A large-scale conservation initiative is on hold due to objections from the State Legislature's Joint Finance Committee. A conservation group that owns the Pelican River Forest is looking for help from the DNR to open the land to public use, but the J F C has held up funding for the project. Republican State Representative Mary Felzkowski tells WXPR in Rhinelander that adding more land to state forests could hurt the economy and prevent future development and growth in the region. The properties would be sold off to other people, once preservation easements are secured for the state. Some 70-thousand acres are part of the potential program.
A woman faces charges for allegedly poisoning her veterinarian husband with euthanasia drugs. 50-year-old Amanda Chapin of Monroe is charged with attempted homicide for allegedly spiking her husband's coffee with barbituates. Police say she recently married the man and then worked to get his children written out of his will, going so far as to forge a power of attorney document. After that, police say Chapin started poisoning his coffee, eventually sending the man into a coma. Her husband has since filed for divorce.
A Richland Center dairy company is helping its workers cover the cost of childcare. Schreiber Foods is partnering with TOOTRiS childcare service to provide its employees with childcare benefits and five thousand dollars toward education costs. Schreiber Foods said employees will receive five-thousand dollars a year as a recurring stipend, which will cut some annual childcare costs in half.
JJ Watt says his latest fan mail package had him take a step back. Watt, who played both high school and college football in Wisconsin before heading off to the NFL, says someone sent him a stuffed badger in the mail. It was professionally taxidermied and mounted. Watt shared pictures of it on Twitter. He said 'I have received a lot of wild fan mail over the years. This package that arrived today is certainly being added to the list.'
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