A former Cochrane-Fountain City School District staff member will not be going to prison after being accused of sending nude photos of herself to a student. 34Yr old Heather Treague was accused of sending the pictures to a 17yr old earlier this year. Charges of exposing genitals to a child and causing a child to view sexual activity were dismissed and Treague pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct and exhibiting obscene materials to minors. She was convicted and fined $643.
Xcel Energy has announced plans to build a solar facility in Pierce County. In a press release the company said the $100 million project would be built on 1,100 acres in the town of Gilman and would generate $300,000 in shared revenue for the town and Pierce County. If approved, construction would begin in 2021 with electric generation beginning in 2022.
Dunn County has released the name of the man killed in a one vehicle roll over accident on Saturday in the town of Colfax. The Sheriffs Department says 87yr old Frank Newton was killed when he lost control of his vehicle on Hwy M causing the vehicle to roll several times. That accident remains under investigation.
The Durand Area Food Pantry has announced another milk and cheese distribution. The distribution will be held on Monday from 4-6pm and is open to everyone. Along with milk, there will be cottage cheese and block cheese available. The Durand Area Food Pantry holds weekly food distribution to those in need every Wednesday from 9-Noon and Thursday from 1-4pm. Call the food pantry at 672-3203 for more information.
A Chippewa Falls stabbing has left four people injured, two of them in critical condition. Police were called to Marshal Park at about 2:46 a-m Saturday. A witness was reporting a fight involving several people. Although several suspects ran from the scene before officers arrived, police say they believe they know who they are looking for. No arrests have been made and the names of the victims haven’t been released.
A Chippewa Falls man has been arrested for OWI 7th offense. According to the Wisconsin State Patrol, Sunday night, troopers had contact with 50yr old Robert Truitt who was stopped in the lane of traffic on Keller road in Washburn County. A subsequent investigation including field sobriety tested was conducted and Truitt was arrested for OWI and failure to install an ignition interlock device on his vehicle, 4th offense.
The Eau Claire Sheriff’s Department is investing a fatal fire at a business in Fall Creek. Emergency responders were called to S-and-S Auto Sunday. Authorities say a pole building on the property was a total loss. The name of the person who died in the fire hasn’t been released. The sheriff’s department is investigating to determine the source of the fire.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will suspend phone ordering of 2020 annual vehicle admission stickers. Online and property-based sales of 2020 annual stickers continue to be available. With the availability of online annual vehicle admission stickers, a new offering in 2020, and the return of sales at DNR properties, phone sales are decreasing and this change allows staff to focus on other duties. Starting this week 2020 annual vehicle admission stickers, state trail passes and daily admission passes will be sold at individual properties via self-registration station, electronic kiosk or drive-up window service where available. Credit cards, checks and cash will be accepted at drive-up windows, credit cards only at electronic payment kiosks, cash and check payments accepted at self-registration stations. Property offices are still closed to entry and only drive-up windows may be open.
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an effort to require the counting of absentee ballots that are postmarked on or just before Election Day. The court's 5-3 ruling means that absentee ballots will be counted only if they are actually in the possession of municipal clerks offices by the time polls close next Tuesday, November 3. The justices determined that the Constitution provides that state legislatures - not federal or state judges, governors nor other state officials - bear primary responsibility for setting election rules. The Wisconsin legislature hasn't met since April. Democrats, their allies and nonpartisan groups wanted ballots that are postmarked on or before Election Day to be counted, arguing the pandemic has slowed the mail.
The November election is just one week from today (Tuesday) and foreign interference continues to be a concern in Minnesota. Secretary of State Steve Simon has been working closely with federal intelligence officials. Simon said, "They have their eyes on it in ways that no one did in 2016, so I'm feeling very good about it. Our systems are strengthened and hardened even more so now and more than they were in 2016." He says Russia tried to hack Minnesota's election system in 2016 but did not breach the system.
An effort to recall Wisconsin Democratic Governor Tony Evers has fizzled out. A Monday post on the “Recall Evers Petition” Facebook page said not enough signatures were collected. There were no details on how close the group came to collecting the nearly 670,000 needed by the Tuesday deadline for the group to submit the signatures to force a recall election. The effort's organizer said no petitions would be submitted, in part to prevent the names of those who signed from becoming public, and that all petitions collected would be destroyed.
A new poll shows Democratic candidate Joe Biden holds a 9-point lead over Republican President Donald Trump in Wisconsin. The poll - by the UW-Madison Elections Research Center - found the president has the edge among respondents who haven't voted yet. But that margin does not appear large enough to compensate for Biden’s advantage among early and absentee voters. The poll found 53 percent of likely voters support Biden, compared with 44 percent for Trump. Biden led Trump by just five points among registered voters in last month's poll, and Elections Research Center director Barry Burden said it's the first time the margin is big enough to be statistically significant, even accounting for the margin of error.
A three-judge panel of the Eighth U-S Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a request to delay voting in a congressional race. Republican Tyler Kistner pointed to the death of a third-party candidate for his request. The Friday ruling hands a victory to Democratic Congresswoman Angie Craig, who had sued to keep the race on the November ballot. Kistner wanted it delayed until February.
Public health managers in Dane County are saying it is the office, not bars or restaurants, that a spreading COVID-19. Thirty-four different clusters of positive coronavirus test results have been linked to offices. Tracing has connected 14 clusters to bars, restaurants, or public gatherings of any kind. The Madison Chamber of Commerce says offices are safe places because most know how to clean and protect their workers. The data was released at the same time Governor Evers continues his push for limits on bars and restaurants as a way to limit the coronavirus spread in Wisconsin.
A Minnesota state trooper has been acquitted on one sex charge, but the jury deadlocked on the second. Fifteen-year veteran Gerald Barta was found not guilty by a Dakota County jury of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. The jury couldn’t reach a verdict on the second charge of second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim under 16. A teenage girl first told her grandmother that Barta had been touching her inappropriately for about a year. Barta told authorities during an interview that nothing had happened between the two.
Authorities say two shooting suspects are being held in the Dakota County Jail after a Friday incident. Eagan Police were called to an apartment building shortly after 11:00 p-m. When they arrived they found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Witnesses were able to give them descriptions of the suspected shooters and the two men were arrested. Their names haven’t been released. The shooting victim is listed in stable condition at Regions Hospital. His name hasn’t been released either.
The price of a gallon of gasoline continues to fall in the Twin Cities metro area. The Lundberg Survey reports people are driving less due to layoffs and partial shutdowns during the coronavirus pandemic. Travel over the Thanksgiving holiday period is expected to be much lighter than normal. The average price for regular unleaded in the metro is estimated to be as much as 60 cents-a-gallon lower than it was at this time last year.
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