Authorities
in western Wisconsin are investigating a shooting that left two
people dead Friday near River Falls. The Pierce County
Sheriff's Office says it received a call from 32-year-old Amory Tarr
saying his father, 60-year-old Craig Tarr, had been shot.
Deputies say phone contact with Amory Tarr was then lost.
Officers responding to the home found both men dead.
Investigators say there is no threat to the public.
The
Durand-Arkansaw School Board received an update on the 2020-2021
budget. Superintendent Greg Doverspike says there is a lot of
uncertainty with the budget due to the covid-19 pandemic.
Doverspike
says other issues like health insurance rates, and transportation
aids will also affect the budget.
One
person was injured in a motorcycle vs deer accident in Luddington
Townshop on Sunday. According to the Eau Claire County Sheriffs
Department, a 26yr old man was traveling southbound on Hwy d when he
hit a deer after crossing the Eau Claire River Bridge. The rider was
thrown from his motorcycle, skidded on the pavement and landed in a
nearby ditch. He was med flighted to the hospital.
Eau
Claire County Sheriff’s Ron Cramer is preaching common sense over
Safer at Home. The sheriff says most people have been following
the order to stay at home. He says where a violation is
discovered his deputies take them on a case-by-case basis. The
new Safer at Home order is set to run through May 26th - but
Republican lawmakers have filed suit to end it by May 11th.
A
Minnesota man is scheduled for sentencing in June after entering a
guilty plea to burglary charges. Hienok Demessie had faced
seven felony charges before he reached a plea agreement with
prosecutors in Barron County. Demessie was arrested in December
after a 9-1-1 caller reported a break-in at a business the week
before Christmas. The caller said money was missing and she
could smell smoke from the laundromat next door. Demessie
pleaded guilty to burglary of a building or dwelling and criminal
damage to property.
Wisconsin
currently has the lowest average price for gas in the entire
country. GasBuddy-dot-com reports the Badger State’s average
is one-dollar, 21-cents-a-gallon. It has been decades since the
pump prices were that low. The highest average price in the
state is a still-pretty-low dollar-64 in St. Croix County.
Waushara County’s average price is 95 cents-a-gallon. The
Wisconsin prices are down an average of 50 cents-a-gallon from last
month and are 56 cents-a-gallon better than the national average.
Nurses
in Minnesota are pushing back on one of the latest executive orders
from Governor Tim Walz that would ease the process for other states
to come work in Minnesota. The Minnesota Nurses Association says
nurses not working with COVID patients are being furloughed and they
should be the ones tapped to help fill any potential shortages. M-N-A
president Mary Turner, who supported Walz's early promises to help
support Minnesota's front-line healthcare workers, called for
training "for our nurses who are now furloughed or laid off,"
adding that training should have been happening throughout the
crisis.
If
you haven't yet received your government stimulus check, the IRS
might need some information from you. IRS Spokesman Christopher
Miller says they've got a tool on their website that will expedite
the process, if you're still looking for that check. If
you've recently filed a tax return, you likely already have received
your check. If not, make sure the IRS can direct deposit that check
into a banking or checking account.
A
meatpacking plant at the center of the COVID-19 outbreak in Green Bay
was temporarily closed Sunday. Brown County's public health agency
on Friday confirmed at least 189 cases were linked to JBS Packerland.
The JBS shutdown comes as the number of Wisconsinites testing
positive for COVID-19 grew by 224 Sunday — the fifth day in a row
that new cases exceeded 200. While that increase is attributed in
part to the meat plant outbreaks, it also reflects increased testing.
Vice
President Mike Pence will be in Rochester Tuesday to tour Mayo Clinic
facilities supporting COVID-19 research and treatment and meet with
personnel. Governor Tim Walz says the vice president has
highlighted the worker Minnesota has done to other states, including
the creative ways to increase testing.
An
estimated 15-hundred people protested Governor Tony Evers' extended
"Safer at Home" order Friday outside the Wisconsin State
Capitol. One speaker at the freedom rally told the crowd,
"COVID-19 is just latest contributor to longest-running pandemic
in history - the global pandemic of fear." Others called
for the order to be lifted so people can go back to work. There
were signs that read, "Behind every small business is family"
and "Open Wisconsin." Not many of the protesters were
wearing face masks. Some health care workers staged a small
counter protest with one woman holding a "please go home"
sign. Capitol police say no arrests or citations were issued.
Governor
Tony Evers is responding to the Wisconsin Manufacturers and
Commerce's plan to re-open businesses in the state. The
governor said a May 4th re-opening date is inconsistent with both his
Badger Bounce Back and the president's plan. Evers says the key
to re-opening will be tied to the percentage of people testing
positive, not just the raw number of cases. Evers says the
state expects to see more positive coronavirus testing results as
more people are tested. The Badger Bounce Back plan requires
two weeks of falling positive case numbers before Wisconsin can get
back to business.
The
Foxconn manufacturing plant in Mount Pleasant is making face masks
for health care personnel before cranking out the thin-screen
televisions in its plans. So far, the Taiwan-based company has
donated 100 thousand face masks to Wisconsin. Foxconn is also
working to make ventilators at the new facility in southeastern
Wisconsin. Governor Tony Evers has been critical of Foxconn and
its multi-billion-dollar agreement with the state previously.
The
Fairmont Foods plant in southern Minnesota is closed this weekend
after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. The company
plans to re-open the facility on Monday to its 350 workers.
Fairmont Foods produces frozen entrees and side dishes.
Officials are working with local and state health officials, testing
all employees and installing thermal scanning equipment.
Fairmont Foods said in a statement, "we halted production
activities in the facility for deep cleaning and sanitation, in
compliance with the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control."
Amtrak
has announced it is switching from train service to buses for
customers traveling between Milwaukee and Chicago. The
coronavirus pandemic has made it so there aren’t enough people
making the trip to keep using trains. A spokesperson says it
doesn’t make sense to run mostly-empty trains on the route between
the two cities. The new bus-only service will continue through
at least May 25th.
Hormel
Foods is awarding its employees another special bonus for continuing
to produce food during the coronavirus pandemic. The
Austin-based company says seven-million dollars will be shared by all
production workers. Full-time team members will receive 500
dollars and part-timers are getting a 150-dollar bonus.
Hormel gave its workers four million in bonuses in late March.
Hormel C-E-O Jim See said, "we have worked tirelessly to provide
enhanced safety measures including P-P-E, temperature taking,
facility innovation to enhance social distancing, and improved access
to COVID-19 testing."
St.
Paul-based Pearson’s Candy is donating 618 cartons of Salted Nut
Rolls, or 14-thousand-832 bars, to the Red Cross in Minnesota.
The donation is a result of a two-week "Buy One, Give One"
effort. Through the effort, when one 24-count box of Nut Rolls
was purchased, Pearson’s donated a matching box to the Red Cross.
The candy bars will be given to frontline health care workers, Red
Cross staff and those who donate at Red Cross blood drives.
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