The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include an update on the north eau claire street project and the upcoming friendship days, and reports from the Mayor, City Administrator, and Department heads. Tonight's meeting begins at 5:30 at the Marten Center in Mondovi.
An Arcadia man was in court Monday to face sexual assault of a child and drug charges. 59yr old John Wesley Jones had a $30,000 cash bond set in Trempealeau County Court. Authorities say a 15yr old victim told them Jones gave her meth, alcohol, and other drugs and sexually assaulted her. Jones will be back in court next Tuesday.
A conservation organization continues to expand its presence in Western Wisconsin. WEAU-TV Reports that last December, Landmark Conservancy purchased a 60-acre parcel of land where Elk Creek and the Chippewa River meet. The Conservancy is in 20 counties in Wisconsin with a goal to preserve land for public use.
An Eau Claire County man is heading to prison as part of a sex trafficking case. A judge yesterday sentenced Mark Scoville Senior to six years in prison for a slew of charges related to a string of crimes from 2021. Six women accused Scoville of sexually assaulting them -- some of the women said he drugged them first. Scoville told the judge yesterday that drugs were to blame for his bad actions. After his prison time, Scoville will be on parole for 10 years.
Investigators say the man shot and killed during an officer-involved shooting earlier this month in St. Croix County was a Minnesota prison guard. The Polk County Sheriff's Office yesterday identified the officers who shot and killed 42-year-old Tyler Abel back on June 3rd. The sheriff also confirmed that Abel worked at the prison in Stillwater, Minnesota as a guard. Prison officials in Minnesota say Abel was 'well-liked and highly-regarded.' His wife called 911 on June 3rd, saying her husband was 'out of control' and going to 'get his ARs.' A New Richmond police officer and a St. Croix County deputy shot and killed Abel when he walked out of his house with a gun in his hand.
A meat packing plant in Abbotsford is looking at more than a quarter-million dollars in safety fines after its latest inspection. OSHA yesterday ordered 277 thousand-dollars in fines for the Abbyland Foods after one worker lost a fingertip, and another had his hand crushed. This is not the first time OSHA has fined Abbyland, and OSHA accused plant managers of continuing 'to ignore its legal responsibility to ensure a safe and healthful work environment.'
We'll have a much better idea of what the University of Wisconsin is getting from the state by the end of the day. The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee is set to act on the UW's budget request today. The UW's president wants an eight-percent budget increase in the state's new spending plan. That would be on top of the four-percent tuition hike that regents approved back in the spring. Lawmakers have already turned down a request from the university for a new engineering building at the Madison Campus. The JFC will also decide on the budgets for DPI and the state's Department of Transportation today.
People who buy beer, wine, or liquor won't notice most of the changes in Wisconsin's proposed liquor law overhaul. A plan that is quickly working its way through the Capitol would mostly impact the companies that make or sell alcohol and is being hailed as a deal that's been a long time coming. One of the biggest changes would be a new state government office to focus on alcohol law enforcement, including a ban on things like beer-of-the-month clubs. For customers, the biggest changes will come at wedding barns that would be required to get liquor licenses or at breweries and wineries that would finally be allowed to sell drinks that they did not make themselves. Republicans, Democrats, and the alcohol industry are all on-board with the plan.
Rochester City Council members are debating the best way to deal with an increasing number of homeless encampments at local parks. Police Chief Jim Franklin is arguing for an ordinance banning all camping on city grounds, noting that the current ban on nighttime camping doesn't seem to be working. City officials and locals acknowledge that current resources for people experiencing homelessness are already at capacity. Council President Brooke Carlson says more information on housing resources is needed before decisions can be made.
Senior citizens can get some vouchers for Eau Claire's farmer's market. The Aging and Disability Resource Center in Eau Claire has a limited number of vouchers to be handed out this month. The 35 dollars in vouchers are good for fruits or vegetables at the market. Program Manager Betsy Henck says the vouchers are not new, but they are welcome. The idea, she says, is to make sure seniors have fresh fruits and vegetables.
A Wood County policeman is cleared in an April shooting situation. That’s the decision of Wood County District Attorney Craig Lambert in the shooting death of 69-year-old William Voelker in the Town of Grand Rapids. The Wisconsin Department of Justice found Voelker reached for a gun inside his jacket when Grand Rapids Police Officer Erik Backlund made contact with him. After Backlund told Voelker he would shoot him if he pulled out the gun. Voelker told the officer he wanted Backlund to shoot him and began to pull the gun from his jacket. That’s when Backlund shot Voelker multiple times. Voelker died at the scene. No one else was hurt.
A Milwaukee EMT has died after falling from a boat in Lake Michigan Friday night. The Milwaukee County Sheriff's Office says they were alerted by a caller who heard a splash and saw a hat floating in the water near Milwaukee’s South Shore Yacht Club. A drone was activated and dive teams went in to locate 61-year-old John Swanson in the water. Swanson later died despite efforts to revive him. The sheriff’s office determined Swanson fell from a boat that was docked at the marina. He served as an EMT for Bell Ambulance since 2007.
Deputies in Grant County are blaming a woman who they saw was drunk for a deadly crash yesterday afternoon. It happened at the intersection of Highway 81 and Settlement Road in the Township of Cassville about 1 p.m. Deputies say a woman rolled through a stop sign, sped-up, and crashed into a 52-year-old Cassville man's car as he was driving along the highway. The wreck drove the man's car into a ditch. Investigators say he was tossed from the car and died at the scene. The sheriff's office says the woman was arrested and taken to the Grant County Jail.
Several motions are scheduled to be argued before the Taylor Schabusiness trial begins. The 25-year-old Schabusiness is charged in connection to the death and dismemberment of Shad Thyrion in Green Bay last year. She has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Judge Thomas Walsh says the issues to be addressed prior to the July trial of Schabusiness include defense motions for another competency evaluation, preventing her statements to police to be used during the trial, and a dismissal of the entire case based on a defective criminal complaint. A hearing is scheduled for all day Tuesday to discuss each of the motions.
The Minnesota Attorney General's Office is launching a new civil rights division. It will focus on cases where state residents are targeted by fraud on account of their race, gender, or religious beliefs. The division will also use consumer-protection powers to help protect victims.
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