Police in Wabasha are investigating a grain bin accident that left a man dead. Officers were called to Gerken's Feed and Grain Monday night for an employee who was possibly missing. The man was identified as 67-year-old John Evers of Wabasha. Rescue crews and firefighters cut open the bin and later found Evers inside. He died at the scene.
One person was injured in a one vehicle accident in the town of Knapp on Thursday. According to the Dunn County Sheriffs Department, a 25yr old female was traveling northbound on Hwy Q when she failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection of Hwy Q and Hwy 12. The vehicle continued northbound across Hwy 12 and entered the ditch, struck a tree and entered the Mattison Construction property where it struck a pile of new guard rail sections. The driver had to be extricated from the vehicle and was med flighted to Mayo Eau Claire with life threatening injuries. Speed appears to be a factor in the accident. The drivers name has not been released pending notification of family.
One person was injured in a one vehicle accident in Nelson Township on Wednesday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriffs Department, 61ry old Terresa Hoyt was traveling southbound on Hwy 35 when she lost control and left the southbound shoulder. The vehicle then rolled several times, causing Hoyt to become trapped when the vehicle came to rest on its roof. Hoyt was taken to a local hospital with non life threating injures..
One person is dead after a one vehicle accident in Fountain City on Wednesday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriffs Department, 32yr old William Daubs of Fountain City was traveling southbound on Hwy 35, left the roadway and attempted to re-enter the roadway. The vehicle then rolled n an end to end manner coming to a rest on its roof. Daubs was partially ejected from the vehicle with the vehicle landing on top of him. Speed and alcohol are believed to be a factor in the crash and that accident remains under investigation.
A man convicted of child trafficking and sexual assault was sentenced yesterday. Richard Bye was sentenced to 4yrs in prison after being convicted of intentionally contributing to the delinquency of a child. Bye and William Hargrove were both charged with assaulting a 15yr old girl and Hargrove is currently serving a 10yr sentence.
One person is dead and another in custody after a truck vs pedestrian accident in Chippewas County on Wednesday. According to the Chippewa County Sheriffs Department, 24yr old Trevor Plemon was driving the truck westbound on Hwy 64 when he struck 63yr old Christine Prueher of Greenfield who was walking on the side of the road. Prueher was med flighted to the hospital but later died. Plemon has been arrested and charged with causing injury or death while operating under the influence of an intoxicant 2nd offense, possession of THC and possession of drug paraphernalia. He is being held on a $10,000 cash bond.
Four elderly people were wounded in a mass shooting in Mayville, in Dodge County. Two of the four were airlifted from the Spring Glen Elderly Housing facility to trauma centers and they are in critical condition. One of the critical patients is said to be the shooter. No names have been released. The incident was reported by a 9-1-1 caller shortly before 7:30 p-m. The sheriff’s office, Mayville Police, and the Wisconsin Department of Justice are investigating.
Even though he isn’t experiencing any symptoms, U-S Senator Ron Johnson wasn’t at President Trump’s appearance in Mosinee Thursday. The Wisconsin Republican was told he had been exposed to someone with COVID-19. Johnson will voluntarily quarantine until next Tuesday, even though he has tested negative since he was notified. The veteran senator had been scheduled to travel with the president to the Thursday campaign stop. Political observers say the president is working to boost enthusiasm among rural Wisconsin voters so he can win the state’s electoral college votes again.
Beloit College is testing all of its students for COVID-19 weekly. The College has partnered with Abbott Laboratories in Chicago to provide weekly on-campus COVID-19 testing for all of its roughly 1400 undergraduates. The College will cover the costs of inner nasal swab tests which produce results in 20 minutes or less. According to a press release the College will also hire up to eight certified nursing assistants or emergency medicine technicians to staff the new testing center. Since resuming in-person classes, Beloit's policy has included cloth face coverings, physical distancing, frequent hand-washing and completing daily wellness checks on an app.
G-E Healthcare has big plans for southeast Wisconsin. The company's latest proposal includes a 50-million-dollar factory in West Milwaukee to make C-T scanners. Hundreds of jobs would be shifted from Waukesha. G-E says the hope is to eventually have 12-hundred workers in the new plant. GE already owns the facility in West Milwaukee, but is not saying when it could start production there or when the Waukesha jobs would be moved.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission is telling voters they can ignore the texts, calls, and postcards they may be getting about re-registering before the November election. The commission says those reminders aren’t coming from it. Director Meagan Wolfe says third-party groups are calling and texting voters, telling them they could be left off the voter rolls. Wolfe says that’s usually not true. She says the calls aren’t illegal, but many voters aren’t happy about getting them.
Absentee balloting for 2020 election begins in Minnesota today. Secretary of State Steve Simon is encouraging voting by mail and says you can track your ballot just like you would a package. Simon says the earlier you send in the ballot - the better. Many counties are reporting a record number of absentee ballot requests during the COVID-19 pandemic. Minnesotans can also vote in-person beginning today at a county clerk or city office. Early absentee voting locations are open 46 days prior to Election Day.
The state Public Service Commission has voted to extend a moratorium on disconnecting utilities of customers who are behind on their bills The moratorium put in place on March 24 in response to the coronavirus pandemic was set to expire October 1. On a 2-1 vote Thursday, commissioners extended it to November 1. That's the date on which the annual moratorium on cutoffs for electric and gas customers takes effect. The winter moratorium runs to April 15. The PSC will require any water utility to get its approval to disconnect service. Organizations ranging from the Wisconsin Council of Churches to the Sierra Club asked the PSC to extend the moratorium.
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources is reporting a big spike in fatal off-highway vehicle crashes. Conservation officers say 19 people have died in O-H-V accidents through early September - compared with the ten-year annual average of 18 fatalities. D-N-R coordinator Jon Paurus says for the most part people are taking the proper precautions and riding safely. The most common safety issues are people riding too fast, riding where they're not supposed to, and failing to obey traffic signs. The numbers of registered all-terrain vehicles, off-highway motorcycles, and off-road vehicles topped 329-thousand in 2019 and there have been 24-thousand new registrations in 2020.
A change of venue has been granted in the case against a Missouri man accused of killing two Shawano County brothers over a business debt. The first-degree murder trial for Garland “Joey” Nelson was moved from Caldwell County, Missouri to Johnson County Tuesday – the day after the brothers’ remains were returned to the family in Wisconsin. Prosecutors have said they intend to seek the death penalty against Nelson. He is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Nick and Justin Diemel in July of last year.
Racine police say the medical examiner has determined that a brain found on the city's lakefront is not from a human. It came from animal but there is no word on what species it came from. The brain was found Tuesday in Samuel Myers Park wrapped in aluminum foil and a rubber band. There was also flowers and foreign cash inside the foil.
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