One person was injured in a motorcycle vs deer crash on Sunday In Pepin County. According to the Pepin County Sheriffs Department 56 yr old Lloyd Rivers of Apple Valley,mn was traveling southbound on Hwy D near Vosker road when he struck a deer in the roadway. Rivers was ejected from the motorcycle and was med flighted to the hospital with serious injuries. That accident remains under investigation.
One person was injured in a motorcycle accident in Pepin County Saturday. According to the Pepin County Sheriffs Department, 63yr old Michael Mehsikomer of Forest Lake, Mn was traveling southbound on Hwy D near Stewart Lane when he failed to negotiate a sharp curve and was ejected off his motorcycle. Mehsikomer was med-flighted to an area hospital with serious injuries. Speed is believed to be a factor in that accident.
A 52yr old Menomonie man has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol for operating under the influence, 6th offense. According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, troppers stopped a vehicle for unsafe lane deviation on Saturday morning on Hwy 29 in Dunn County. After a standardized field sobriety test, Luke Bassler was arrested for OWI. He was taken to a local hospital for an evidentiary test of his blood and then to the Dunn County Jail.
A 57yr old Menomonie man has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol for operating under the influence 6th offense. According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, troopers stopped to check on an occupied vehicle on the side of Hwy 12 just west of 20th Street in Chippewa County early Sunday morning. Troopers found 57yr old Eugene Vilz inside the car showing signs of impairment. Vilz failed a field sobriety test and was taken to a local hospital for an evidentiary test of his blood and then to the Chippewa County Jail.
No one was injured in an apartment fire in Chippewa Falls on Sunday morning. Crews were called to the fire on Island Street and found heavy flames and smoke coming from the attic and the rear of the building. Two people had to be rescued from the buildings roof and two children and an adult on the second floor were rescued by other residents of the building. Fire crews had a difficult time putting out the fire and damage is estimated at $250,000. The American Red Cross is helping those displaced by the fire.
The GOP-controlled Minnesota Senate voted Friday to cancel Governor Tim Walz's emergency COVID powers, but the measure failed in the DFL-led House. Red Wing Republican Barb Haley says lawmakers from both parties stood behind the governor at the start of the pandemic, "but the time now is to chart a different course. We will be living with this virus for quite some time." Democrat Alice Mann from Lakeville asked her colleagues to remember nearly 13-hundred Minnesotans who have died from COVID-19 and "the voices of the people who are currently in the I-C-U who may or may not come home. Mann added, "this emergency is not over." Republicans argue business closures that hurt the economy must be stopped.
A northwest Wisconsin man is guilty of first-degree homicide for a shooting near Conrath in 2018. A Rusk County jury deliberated for just over two hours today before convicting 32-year-old Preston Kraft in the shooting death of Robert Petit (Friday). He was also found guilty of felony bail jumping. Prosecutors say Petit was found with a gunshot wound to the head in his driveway in May of 2018. Kraft could face a life prison sentence.
Rescuers pulled three people from a small island on Silver Lake Sunday morning. The Rochester Fire Department received reports of empty canoes floating on the lake and began a search of the area. Gusty winds reportedly pushed the canoes away from shore while the three were on the island. Two of the empty canoes ended up going over a nearby dam. No one was injured during the incident.
Sparta police are investigating the fatal shooting of a man that was reported early Thursday morning. Officers were called to a location at about 1:15 a-m where they found a victim suffering a gunshot wound. He was taken to the Sparta hospital, then transferred to La Crosse – where he died later. The man’s name hasn’t been released. The Crime Scene Response team from the Wisconsin Department of Justice was called in to help. Interviews are being conducted, but police haven’t identified any persons of interest.
The University of Wisconsin System has announced that students, faculty and staff members will be able to return to its campuses next fall. The news release from President Ray Cross said preparations being made that reduce the risk for a safe return during the coronavirus pandemic. The System’s Plan Ahead Team has made a series of recommendations – including having only some courses meet in-person, while those with 50 or more students will move online. The System has more than 180 thousand students enrolled, with another 39 thousand faculty and staff members on its campuses.
The moratorium on utility disconnections ends next month in Wisconsin. Utility companies will be able to cut off service to customers for non-payment. The state had placed restrictions on disconnections during the coronavirus pandemic. The Wisconsin Public Service Commission lifted those restrictions effective July 25th.
The only finalist to be the next University of Wisconsin System president has withdrawn his name from consderation. Jim Johnsen was the only candidate interviewed by the search committee looking for Ray Cross' successor. Johnsen's candidacy was controversial among faculty and staff who complained about Johnsen's track record as the University of Alaska System president, and about the selection process in Wisconsin which shut them out. In his letter withdrawing his name, Johnsen said U-W officials "have important process issues to work out."
All
members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission say they want to send
voters a letter this fall about absentee voting – but they can’t
agree on what it should say. During the last commission
meeting, Republican and Democratic members were divided over the
language in that letter. Republicans want the letter to make it
clear that absentee voting will be safe. Democrats say the
other party needs to trust them. The state Elections Commission
hopes to mail the millions of letters by September 1st.
Marathon
County's executive committee wants more time to craft an ordinance on
how best to control the spread of COVID-19. The measure would have
given the county health department very broad powers, but County
Board Chairman Kurt Gibbs says they wanted to get more input from
authorities and community members. He
says he wants the public to know the ordinance is about controlling
the spread of the disease. There was push back from some anti-vaccine
protesters who claim this was about more than just handling COVID-19.
Ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin could receive more than one-million dollars in pension benefits even if he is convicted of killing George Floyd. Forty-four-year-old Chauvin was immediately fired after video surfaced of him kneeling on Floyd for nearly nine minutes until he lost consciousness. The Minnesota Public Employees Retirement Association confirmed that Chauvin would remain eligible to file for his pension as early as age 50. Retirement plan officials said that employees terminated voluntarily or for cause are eligible for future benefits unless they choose to forfeit their future benefit and receive a refund of all their contributions made during their employment.
Wisconsin Farmers will be able to sign up for the Farm Support Program starting on Monday. According to Wisconsin Agriculture Secretary Designee Randy Romanski, eligible farmers will received a payment based on their gross income from 2019. Registration deadline is June 29th at 11:59pm. The Wisconsin Department of Revenue will be administering the program and Romanski says the department is committed to getting the money distributed starting on July 15.
While the Stillwater Area School Board was meeting electronically, a small crowd of students, parents, staff and teachers held a rally Thursday in support of the district’s superintendent. Their support wasn’t enough. At the end of the meeting that was live-streamed on YouTube a buyout agreement with Denise Pontrelli had been reached. Pontrelli has led the Stillwater district for the last five years – and has had showdowns with the board over school boundaries, student growth and how to handle it, the closings of three elementary schools, and construction of a bus garage. Her termination agreement will cost the district nearly a half-million dollars.
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