The Wisconsin Department of Tourism says tourism spending in Western Wisconsin increased 1.84% in 2019. Pepin County reported a 5.75% increase in tourism spending to $14.2 million in 2019, Pierce County had a 3.55 increase to $57.5 million, Buffalo County tourism spending increased by 2.41% to $22.2 million and Trempealeau County saw a 3.74% increase in tourism spending to $56 million. Overall in Wisconsin, tourism spending for 2019 was $22.2 Billion.
One person was injured in a motorcycle accident in Bay City on Sunday. According to the Pierce County Sheriffs Deparmtent, 51yr old Alana Rombalski of Bay City was attempting a parking maneuver of her motor trike in her yard when she over accelerated , rolling the trike and was ejected. Rombalski was transported to Red Wing Regional Airport where she was med flighted to Regions Hospital in St. Paul.
Under
the new ALICE report released by United Way. data from 2018 shows
that more households in Wisconsin fall under the ALICE threshold for
the basic cost of living. ALICE, which stands for asset limited,
income constrained, employed, represents the households with income
above the federal poverty level, but below the basic cost of living.
According to the report, Buffalo County had 31% of Households either
under the poverty level or the Alice threshold, Pierce County 32%,
Dunn and Trempealeau Counties 33% and Pepin County had 35% of
household living under the federal poverty level or the under the
Alice threshold.
The
person involved in the robbery of a bank and gas station in Dunn
County last year was sentenced. On Monday, Dunn County Judge Rod
Smeltzer sentenced David Hoffman to 8yrs in prison for the robberies.
Hoffman had pleaded guilty to the October robbery of the U-Fuel Gas
Station in Elk Mound and the Peoples State Bank in Boyceville. Along
with prison, Hoffman will have to repay the money stolen and will
also spend 8yrs on extended supervision.
The Wabasha County Sheriffs Department has confirmed the death of a 35yr old woman in Zumbro Falls was a suicide. The woman was found dead with a gunshot wound on July 5th. The sheriffs department says the wound was self inflicted.
A local specialist says getting enough sleep could help reduce the stress felt by the coronavirus pandemic. S-S-M Health Sleep Medicine Physician Dr. Joseph Crisalli [[ criss-soll-lee ]] said even before the pandemic, around one-third of adults weren't getting enough sleep at night. He says sleep helps restore bodily functions which are vital for mental and physical health. Dr. Crisalli recommends between seven-and-nine-hours of sleep at night.
Two women have been arrested on suspicion of beating Wisconsin State Senator Tim Carpenter during a protest over racial injustice last month. Madison police say 33-year-old Kerida E. O’Reilly and 26-year-old Samantha R. Hamer turned themselves in after they had been identified by members of the public. Carpenter was kicked and punched as he tried to take a video of the crowd tearing down statues. His injuries later required surgery. About 10 people were hitting or kicking the Democrat from Milwaukee after he was knocked to the ground.
The Wisconsin Farm Support Program is ready to distribute the remaining eight million dollars it has in the bank to statewide farmers needed relief during the coronavirus pandemic. Twelve thousand Wisconsin farmers have been paid just over 41-and-a-half million dollars so far – each farmer getting about 35 hundred dollars. Applications for the funding will be accepted beginning August 10th and running through the 24th. The support is available to Wisconsin farmers with gross annual incomes between 10 thousand and five million dollars.
A Minnesota man accused of shooting his girlfriend last Friday, then fleeing to Wisconsin is facing attempted second-degree murder charges. Witnesses told investigators that Jacob McPheeters said he was angry because he would be going to prison soon on a Wisconsin drug charge and couldn't trust his girlfriend. McPheeters reportedly pulled a pistol on the woman in the parking lot of a Bloomington motel, and witness managed to grab the weapon, but he got another gun and shot his girlfriend point-blank in the chest. Police tracked McPheeters through his phone and he was arrested in Wisconsin with the guns and three pipe bombs.
Wisconsin State Senator Steve Nass is questioning whether the coronavirus numbers shared with the public can be trusted. The Republican spoke out late last week after revelations that Dane County hasn’t reported any negative test results to the state since July 10th. He says the 10-day backlog of results is troubling and it has skewed the coronavirus data. Nass says it makes the pandemic look worse than it really is. He is demanding answers from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, saying people need to be able to believe the numbers they see each day are correct.
Wisconsin
Attorney General Josh Kaul says he'll closely monitor the Trump
adminstration's planned deployment of federal law enforcement agents
to Milwaukee Milwaukee
is one of five cities that will see a surge in federal resources to
address violent crime, but Kaul, on WISN TV's "UpFront"
program, said his office was not given any sort of heads up about the
deployment. It's unclear how many federal agents would be deployed to
Milwaukee, which has seen an alarming rise in homicides and gun
violence this year.
Dane
County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne tells protesters he hears
them, but he won’t be intimidated. Over the weekend, a group
shouted and played loud music outside his Madison home. Ozanne
says his family was frightened and his neighbors were bothered.
The protesters want him to release some of their friends from jail.
He says those people are being held for real crimes and they will
remain in jail.
Minneapolis is seeing a record increase in the number of voters who mailed in their early ballots for the August 11th state primary. Mail-in voting for the state primary began June 26th, and the city has received 20,727 completed ballots. That’s more than three times higher than the total mail ballots received during the state primary in 2018--which held the previous record for a state primary.
The coronavirus is not keeping the Wisconsin National Guard from its two weeks of training. Commanders say several Wisconsin National Guard units recently finished their two weeks of training at Fort McCoy. Other units will be done soon. The annual training comes as hundreds of guard members in Wisconsin help test for and track the coronavirus.
Minnesota-based
Target announced today it will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. But the
store says there will be plenty of opportunities to shop holiday
deals before and after November 26th. Target also says it will offer
in-store and online deals starting in October to keep crowd sizes
down.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is looking for a buyer for the historic Kern Bridge. The state will accept letters of interest from potential buyers through the end of August. Department historian Katie Haun says it would be “an attractive addition to a bike and pedestrian trail.” The 147-year-old Kern Bridge crossed the Le Sueur River near Mankato. It was dismantled earlier this year and placed in sealed containers. The cost of buying, rehabilitating and relisting the bridge on the National Register of Historic Places is estimated at one-and-a-half million dollars, with federal funding covering about 80 percent of the cost
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