A Durand resident has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a child. 32yr old Branden Linhart was charged Thursday in Dunn County Court after a girl told authorities that Linhart sexually assaulting her at Eau Galle Lake Park on August 22 and 23rd. Investigators say Linhart admitted to touching the girl inappropriately but denied having sex with her. He has been charged with six felonies and was being held on a $25,000 cash bond. Linharts next court date is Wednesday.
The City of Mondovi will begin a reconstruction project of Valley Estates road. The City approved moving forward with the project this fall that will included resurfacing and widening of the road in certain locations. The City also approved installing a crossing walk signal at the intersection of Washington and East Main Street.
Authorities in western Wisconsin say one teenager is dead and three are injured after a utility vehicle crash near Cumberland. The Barron County Sheriff's Department says four kids between the ages of 11 and 14 were riding in a U-T-V Thursday afternoon when the driver lost control and the machine overturned. All four occupants were thrown from the U-T-V. Deputies say 13-year-old girl from Cumberland died at the scene. A 12-year-old from Superior was airlifted to a St. Paul hospital in critical condition and an 11- and 14-year-old-boy from Rice Lake were treated and released. The accident remains under investigation.
Pepin and Wabasha Counties completed the tower project in Wabasha County. The new tower is owned by Pepin County but the land is rented from Wabasha County. The tower is part of the communications project for Pepin County. Wabasha County is also using the tower for their communications. Wabasha County just had to pay for the tower extension costing around $75,000. Pepin County spent closer to $300,000 on the project but didn’t have to purchase land.
A voter assistance program with the League of Woman Voters will be held in Pepin County in September The programs will be from 4-6:30pm on September 10ths at Memorial Park in Durand, September 15th at Cucna Ceci in Pepin and September 17 at the Calvary Covenant Church in Stockholm.
A Wisconsin woman has almost 60 days to collect 700 thousand signatures on recall petitions aimed at Governor Tony Evers. Misty Polewczynaski of Burlington launched the effort Friday. Polewczynski says Wisconsin citizens feel unsafe and are unwilling to stand by and watch their cities burn. She also filed paperwork to recall Democratic Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes. The Wisconsin Democratic Party has called the effort irresponsible and absurd, pointing to Evers’ 57-percent job approval rating in a poll earlier this month.
Rapper Kanye West is suing the Wisconsin election officials, demanding his name be place on the November presidential ballot. The lawsuit was filed in Brown County Circuit Court Friday. West announced he was running for president last month. Democrats claim Republicans are backing his candidacy in swing states like Wisconsin to take Black votes away from Joe Biden. The state Elections Commission decided West had missed the deadline for filing his nomination signatures by just a few minutes on August 4th.
Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon is urging voters to vote by mail in the upcoming November election. This year any ballot postmarked by election day can be valid as long as it arrives within seven days. Simon says that is unprecedented in Minnesota. Critics worry a seven-day fusion for votes to arrive could lead to not only heavily delayed results but also potential fraud. Simon says his push for voting by mail is in reaction to COVID-19.
After touring parts of Minnesota this weekend Dr. Deborah Birx, a member of the White House's COVID-19 task force, said there "needs to be improvement" of precautions to slow the spread of the virus in Greater Minnesota. Birx says she was "pleased" by measures implemented in the Twin Cities. She has been traveling to several states over the past week to see how the virus is being handled on a local level. As of Sunday fewer than 36-percent of the reported cases of COVID-19 in Minnesota had occurred outside of the seven-county metro area, with more than 30-percent of all cases reported in Hennepin County alone.
The Wisconsin Senate plans to convene Monday for a special session to discuss police reform. Governor Tony Evers on Monday ordered lawmakers in both chambers back to Madison, following the shooting of Jacob Blake in the back Sunday by a Kenosha police officer. Evers wants lawmakers to work on a package of police reform bills which he first introduced in June. Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said they'll do that, as well as consider other legislation by G-O-P Senator Van Wangaard. Fitzgerald's office said it is not a full floor session, but a procedural move to “open up” the session. Evers' spokeswoman Britt Cudaback said, "This moment demands more than task forces or empty procedural gestures." She also notes that "on Monday, it will be 138 days since the legislature passed a bill."
The extradition hearing for the Illinois teen accused of fatally shooting two protesters and wounding a third in Kenosha is being postponed for a month. A judge pushed back the decision on bringing Kyle Rittenhouse back to Wisconsin until September 25th. Seventeen-year-old Rittenhouse is charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the shooting deaths of 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum of Kenosha and 26-year-old Anthony Huber 26 of Silver Lake. He faces a total of five felony charges. An attorney for Rittenhouse claims that the teenager was acting in self-defense.
People living in five homes near the former Badger Army Ammunition site had to be evacuated Wednesday after a controlled burn spread underground. No injuries were reported. The flames at the Sauk Prairie Recreation Area ignited what officials are calling an “unknown substance” underground. A hazmat team decided the let the fire burn itself out. That recreation area was closed to the public while the Department of Natural Resources monitored the underground fire.
More than 400 hospitality workers at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport will lose their jobs permanently October 15th. With fewer travelers and fewer planes passing through the previously busy airport since March, the move by H-M-S Host wasn’t unexpected. Many had already been furloughed for weeks and only about 150 of the usual 11 hundred workers have been on the job. In its news release, H-M-S Host referred to the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating effect on the travel and restaurant industries.
Xcel Energy sent 250 employees to help with recovery in areas hard hit by Hurricane or Tropical Storm Laura. The Minnesota-based utility says line workers support and safety staff are in Louisiana helping to restore power to 670-thousand customers without electricity. Xcel workers from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico responded to the call for mutual assistance. There is extensive storm damage and crews are expected to be in the area a couple weeks.
Summerfest planners say their event will look different in 2021. They’re hoping to sign bigger national acts and move to a three-weekend format. Summerfest C-E-O Don Smiley says the coronavirus pandemic canceling this year’s event gave them the perfect opportunity to restructure things. Next year, Summerfest will be held on the Milwaukee lakefront June 24th through the 26th, July 1st through the 3rd, and July 8th through the 10th.
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