The Durand Fire Department was called out to the McDonalds at the Travel Center in Durand for a fire last night. The fire could be seen outside of the building. Firefighters quickly put out the blaze and no one was injured. No word on the cause of that fire.
The Mondovi City Council has moved to re-open city hall to the public. During last nights meeting council members also voted to allow employees at city hall to work with their office doors closed and to allow the city administrator to close city hall if the situation with covid 19 would change. City administrator Hanson told the council that the city has received a $45000 grant from the state due to the pandemic. Hanson says many cities are using that money to make improvements to their common areas at city halls to help prevent the spread of covid-19.
The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a public hearing on the renewals of the city liquor licenses for area establishments, reports from the city departments and the council will also go into closed session to discuss the ambulance director position. Tonights meeting begins at 6:30 at Durand City Hall.
Authorities in Rusk County have arrested two young men and a juvenile for a double-murder discovered last weekend in Sheldon. The Wisconsin Department of Justice says 21-year-old Adam Rosolowski and 17-year-old Joseph Falk were taken into custody. Those two and the juvenile were booked into the Rusk County Jail. Investigators haven’t released a motive for the murders of 73-year-old Robert Rosolowski and his 70-year-old wife Bonnie Mae. Deputies were dispatched to their home Sunday after a family member visited and found the bodies.
A St. Paul man, arrested in Dunn County had 36 different forms of identification, 53 different financial cards, 65 different personal checks and 10 payroll checks with different account information. According to Menomonie police, they arrested Ronald Jenkins at a truck stop and a search of his vehicle turned up the items along with a small generator, printer, laptop, paper trimmer, laminating machine and blank sheets of personal and payroll checks. Jenkins was charges with taking a driving a vehicle without the owners consent, four counts of misappropriating identification information, improperly possession a credit card scanning device and a count of possession of drug paraphernalia.
Authorities in Eau Claire County say a man accused of a child sex crime was free on bond at the time. New charges have been filed against Gerardo Lugardo. Police say Lugardo assaulted 12-year-old and 13-year-old victims last week in Eau Claire. He was arrested and the charges were filed Monday. Lugardo is also charged with bond jumping.
Starting in late June the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) will begin another round of aerial treatments to control gypsy moth in 15 counties. Phase two targets adult male moths, whereas phase one earlier this spring targeted gypsy moth caterpillars. Residents in the following counties can expect loud, low-flying, yellow planes as early as 7 a.m. through mid-July: Buffalo, Chippewa, Dunn, and Trempealeau, Efforts in these counties will focus on where gypsy moth populations are low or beginning to build, to slow them from spreading further west.
A felony charge of hit and run resulting in death has been filed against a Holem woman accused of killing her husband by driving over him while they argued. The complaint was filed Monday in La Crosse County against 50-year-old Lori Ann Phillips. She told investigators she was driving away from their home February 23rd of last year when it happened. Phillips says she didn’t know she had run over her husband, Mark. When she returned home several hours later, she said she slept on the couch and didn’t realize there was a problem until she got up the next day. She is scheduled to make her first court appearance next Tuesday.
A 17-year-old boy died Monday while cliff jumping at a lake near Cannon Falls. The Goodhue County Sheriff's office says Garrett Berg of Farmington, was jumping off a cliff into Lake Byllesby when another teen jumped in immediately after him and landed on top of him. Berg never surfaced after the accident. The sheriff's office says the only way to access the cliffs is by crossing private property and they are often called to the area to issue citations and remove trespassers.
Wisconsin small businesses will be allowed to apply for a “We’re All-In” grant effective next Monday. Governor Tony Evers announced 75 million dollars would be available three weeks ago, but Tuesday’s announcement by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation revealed when the application window would be opened. Thirty thousand Wisconsin small businesses will be eligible to apply for a 25-hundred dollar grant funded by the federal CARES Act. A small business is one with 20 employees or less and annual revenue of one million dollars or less. The deadline to apply is midnight Sunday, June 21st.
A fourth person has been sentenced to prison for a cold-case sexual assault after D-N-A connected him to the crime. A 25-year prison sentence was handed down to Jason A. Smith Tuesday for the sexual assault of a child nearly 20 years ago. Smith was found guilty on two counts last February after the evidence kit in that case was tested as part of the Wisconsin Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. The 2018 initiative was started as an effort to test hundreds of sex assault evidence kits which had been sitting on shelves – in some cases, for years.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reports there were no coronavirus deaths Monday. Only 203 of the nearly 76 hundred tests resulted in positive results. Health officials say the daily positive test rate remains under three percent. Monday was the first day in almost a month with no coronavirus deaths. The D-H-S says 322 patients are hospitalized for treatment of the virus – compared to more than 400 two weeks ago.
More people will be able to qualify for help through The Emergency Food Assistance Program with the easing of some of the restrictions. Now, households with combined incomes less than three times the federal poverty level can get a monthly share of food, including meat, vegetables, fruit and other options from the food pantry. The change is an effort to serve larger households. Those with incomes below 38-thousand-280 dollars now qualify. The new statewide policy for the U-S-D-A-funded program went into effect June 1st.
Political leaders from across the nation are responding to the promise from the Minneapolis City Council to dismantle the police department. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden says there is a need for reform, but he doesn’t support dismantling the department. President Trump’s campaign is calling for Democrats to denounce the idea. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is openly giving her support, but Minnesota state politicians seem to prefer police reform legislation.
A security guard from St. Paul faces arson charges for the May 28th fire that destroyed the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct building. The fire was started during the rioting following the death of George Floyd. Federal charges of aiding and abetting arson were filed against 23-year-old Branden Michael Wolfe Monday. Investigators say Wolfe was found in possession of police equipment stolen from the burning building. Wolfe told them he pushed a wooden barrel into a fire there, knowing it would help the fire continue to burn.
More than 900 people will be out of work by the end of next month, when Verso Corporation will idle its paper mill in Wisconsin Rapids. State Representative Scott Krug of Wisconsin Rapids - who still has his great grandfather’s retirement pin from the mill - calls it a “gut punch”. Verso will indefinitely idle mills in Rapids and Duluth while exploring viable and sustainable alternatives for both mills, including restarting if market conditions improve, marketing for sale or closing permanently.
The owner of a plant in Minneapolis says he can’t trust city leaders after they let his plant burn to the ground during protests and rioting. Seven-Sigma Incorporated will reopen at a different location. That means about 50 jobs will be moved. The owner tells the Star-Tribune he is optimistic he will be back in business – but he says it won’t be in Minneapolis.
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