Two juvenile girls were injured in an ATV accident Saturday in the Town of Stockholm. According to the Pepin County Sheriffs Department, the two girls were traveling on an ATV on private lands when the driver attempted to go under a tree that had partially fallen down. The driver struck her head on the tree, causing her helmet to strike the passenger. The two were found by family off of Stewart Road and first taken to a private home where first responders located them. The 13yr old driver was air lifted to a Rochester Hospital, while the 12yr old was taken by ambulance to a Red Wing Hospital.
One person was injured in an UTV accident in the Town of Hale on Saturday. According to the Trempealeau County Sheriffs Department, 58yr old Robert Hinrichs of Osseo was driving north on Isom Road, missed a slight curve and went off the road, down a steep ditch and rolling over. Hinrichs was trapped under the vehicle for several hours before neighbors herd him yelling for help. Hinrichs was airlifted to an Eau Claire Hospital.
A dozen Mondovi residents were evacuated from a neighborhood near west Main Street Saturday after a resident made threatening statements. The residents were evacuated as a precaution and the Dane County Bomb Squad was called in. Nothing was found in the home on in the area that was evacuated and everyone was allowed to return to their homes by Saturday evening.
Leinenkugel's Beer is retiring its logo featuring a Native American woman. The Chippewa Falls-based company says it is working to replace the logo and will continue making changes through 2021. Dick Leinenkugel said in a statement, "Over the past several months, our team has been working on an initiative to update the overall look and feel of Leinenkugel’s, and among several changes, we have ultimately made the decision to retire the symbol of the Native American woman that we have previously used with the brand." He says Leine's beers and merchandise will have new graphics that pay tribute to the brewery’s home in Chippewa Falls, but in a different, re-imagined way.
The
Wabasha County Board is meeting Tuesday Morning. Items on the agenda
include approval of the appointment of Steve Hacken as Interim
Wasbasha County Assessor, discussion and possible action on a Local
Option Clerical Adjustment for 2020 property taxes and a presentation
from Bev Hall of the Wabasha Public Library. Tomorrows meeting
begins at 9am at the Wabasha County Government Center.
A Milwaukee woman is facing felony charges in connection with a deadly shooting last month in Sparta. Officers arrested 28-year-old Damara Skenandore-Medina for the June 11th shooting of 61-year-old Anthony Koopman. He later died in the hospital. Investigators say the shooting was drug-related. Skenandore-Medina is charged with felony murder-armed robbery, distribution of meth, and harboring a felon in Monroe County. She's jailed on one-million-dollar bond and has her next court appearance on August 7th.
The
Better Business Bureau (B-B-B) is warning about scams involving
callers pretending to be government officials amid COVID-19. The
scams are often convincing because the caller I-D actually displays
actual numbers and names of government agencies and callers often
already have some personal information about potential victims. The
most common calls are fraudsters claiming to be from the I-R-S,
Social Security Administration o the C-D-C.
U-S Senator Ron Johnson says it is unlikely a new coronavirus relief bill will be passed quickly because it includes what he calls a “grotesque level of spending.” The Wisconsin Republican appeared on W-I-S-N Television’s “UpFront” program Sunday. Johnson says there is still at least one trillion dollars left unspent from the first relief bill passed earlier this year. He says that should be finished first. He says the one-point-two trillion dollars in the first package should be more targeted and distributed effectively before another bill is passed.
Milwaukee’s
Democratic National Convention will come and go in a flash.
Organizers say the convention will meet for just two hours a night
for four nights, starting on the 17th. That means the total
convention time will be about eight hours. Most of it will happen
online. Organizers say Joe Biden’s running mate will deliver a
speech from Milwaukee on the 18th. Biden himself is supposed to speak
in Milwaukee the next night.
Minnesota lawmakers might have to contend with a four-point-seven-billion-dollar deficit when they set the next two-year state budget. The Walz administration released the update Friday. Officials blame lower revenue and higher projected spending, presumably due to the economic downturn from COVID-19. They stress these are projections and could change significantly by next year. House Republican Leader Kurt Daudt says Governor Tim Walz wants hundreds of millions of dollars in new spending that will only make the task of closing the deficit more difficult. Walz says the state has challenges ahead but "will continue to make smart fiscal decisions and request aid from the federal government to help our state manage this difficult time.”
There
could still be some problems with mailing ballots to voters in
Wisconsin this fall. The Wisconsin Elections Commission says there
are lingering issues with delivering ballots through the Post Office.
Elections administrator Meagan Wolfe says problems with the secure
bar codes on mail-in ballots have been fixed, but that some
test-ballots were lost in the mail, and had to be re-sent. Wolfe
expects about two-million people to vote by mail in Wisconsin in
November.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected an appeal in a case where a sex offender claimed he had a First Amendment right to use the internet. James Jackson, Junior pleaded no contest in 2016 to setting up an anonymous profile on Facebook to talk to young girls in violation of his restrictions under the sex offender registry. He appealed the case, stating that the arrest violated his First Amendment protections to free speech. A lower court ruled that while Jackson has a right to free speech on the internet, he gave up parts of those rights as part of his original conviction, and that using the Internet in a way that violates his release is not a protected Free Speech case.
Two people are okay after their boat got caught on a dam on the St. Croix River in western Wisconsin. Police in North Hudson say the boat was stuck on a dam Wednesday night that that controls water flow from Lake Mallalieu into the river. The two occupants exited safely and were on the catwalk of the dam when officers arrived. They were fishing with a trolling motor when the backflow pulled the boat toward the spillway. The boat later capsized and is considered a total loss.
A
small school district in south-central Minnesota will allow all
students to return to in-person classes this fall despite state COVID
guidelines. Gibbon-Fairfax-Winthrop Superintendent Jeff Horton
says they conducted a building analysis using Minnesota State Fire
Marshal code to determine full and 50-percent capacity. Horton
says the results show G-F-W Schools have enough space to safely
educate all students during both in-person and hybrid learning
models. Extra safety and cleaning measures will be in place.
The district is sending a survey to families and weekly updates until
the school year begins.
Mystery
seeds send to Minnesota residents from China are being identified by
the state's Department of Agriculture. Officials identified
some of the seeds as non-invasive species including cosmos, radish,
mung bean, juniper, basil and zinnia. Ag officials say
Minnesotans still should not plant the seeds if they receive them and
should report it.
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