One person was injured in a motorcycle accident in Gilmanton Township on Wednesday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriffs Department, 38yr old James Bauer Jr of Eau Claire was traveling northbound on Hwy 88 when hi motorcycle crossed the centerline and traveled into the ditch. First responders found Bauer with life threatening injuries. He was med flighted to Mayo Hospital in Rochester. Speed and alcohol are believed to be contributing factors in the accident.
One man is dead after an accident at Berry Global on Monday. According to authorities an employee of Berry Global was struck in the head by a piece of machinery and suffered a severe laceration. He was taken to the hospital but died on Thursday. Police reviewed the factory video and determined it was an accident. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is now investigating the incident.
The Pepin County Sheriffs Department is reporting a pair of scams. The department has been receiving a number of reports regarding people getting calls saying there is a warrant for their arrest as well as numerous Social Security frauds. Caller ID is showing many of the calls coming from 715-495-xxxx numbers. If you receive calls like this simply hang up. If in the event you have suffered an actual monetary loss please call the Sheriff's Office non-emergency phone number at 715-672-5944 and a Deputy/Officer will be assigned to to take your complaint.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $3 million to provide broadband service in unserved and under-served rural areas in Wisconsin. Ntera, LLC will use a $3 million grant to deploy a fiber-to-the-premises network to connect 2,044 people, 33 farms and 33 businesses to high-speed broadband internet in Chippewa, Rusk, and Taylor counties in Wisconsin. This investment is part of the $550 million Congress allocated to the second round of the ReConnect Program.
The F-B-I says members of a militia group planned to kidnap Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer and take her to Wisconsin for a “trial.” Six suspects are named in a criminal complaint unsealed Thursday in federal court. As many as 13 arrests may be connected to the alleged plot. The F-B-I says five of the men took part in training exercises in Cambria last July and tried, unsuccessfully, to build an improvised explosive device. Undercover agents and informants are being given credit for exposing the plot which involved at least two unidentified men from Wisconsin. The suspects were arrested Wednesday night in Michigan.
One person is dead and another seriously injured after a two vehicle accident in the town of Apple River on Thursday. According to the Polk County Sheriffs Department, an SUV traveling northbound on 70th Street when the driver failed to stop for a stop sign and struck an minivan traveling eastbound on Mains Crossing Avenue. The driver of the minivan suffered serious injuries, while a passenger in the minivan was killed. The driver of the SUV was not injured. That accident is still under investigation.
Occupancy for Minnesota bars and restaurants is being increased and live music will now be allowed inside facilities large enough to accommodate social distancing. That’s according to updated guidelines released Thursday by the Minnesota Department of Health. Dancing and karaoke will still be prohibited. At bars, tables will be able to accommodate parties up to four people. In dining rooms, parties as big as ten will be able to be seated together. The new guidelines allow for indoor occupancy up to 50-percent with a maximum of 250 people. Maximum outdoor seating is also increased to 250 people
The editors at Reader’s Digest really like Eau Claire. The western Wisconsin city has been included on the publication’s list of the top 25 small towns about to become popular. Those compiling the list based it on areas like quality of life after the COVID-19 pandemic rocked larger more popular cities like Los Angeles, New York and Chicago. Reader’s Digest says those small towns hold some of America’s best-kept secret tourist spots. It praises Eau Claire for its entrepreneurship and local festivals.
The full 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked a decision to extend the deadline for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin. That means absentee ballots must be delivered to clerks by 8 p.m. on Election Day to be counted, and results of the presidential race could be known within hours of polls closing. Democrats will likely appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge William Conley had ruled ballots which arrive by November 9 would be counted, as long as they're postmarked by Election Day. Republicans appealed to a three-judge panel at the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which upheld Conley’s ruling last week. Republicans then asked the full 11 member court to review the case. The court stayed Conley's decision on Thursday.
Officials with the city of Milwaukee say they won’t abide by Governor Tony Evers’ most recent emergency order. The Health Department said Wednesday it will be sticking with the Moving Milwaukee Forward Safely order. The statement from the health department says that order is better at slowing the spread of COVID-19 than the governor’s order limiting all bars, restaurants, and most stores to 25 percent of their capacity. Milwaukee’s order requires those businesses to keep people six feet away from each other and pass an 80-point safety inspection in order to stay open.
Wisconsin’s cranberry crop is expected to be “down” this year, but the final numbers won’t be known until the harvest is complete. Wisconsin State Cranberry Growers Association spokesperson Isaac Zarecki says the harvest is far from over. Rochelle Biegel-Hoffman with Dempze Cranberry Company near Wisconsin Rapids expects their product to be off by 10-to-20 percent. She points out that the state will still lead the nation in production of the floating red fruit. Zarecki tells W-A-O-W Television, “We will know how it went when the last trucks take the cranberries to the receiving station in November.”
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says 32 people died and more than 32-hundred were injured in crashes involving distracted drivers last year. Triple-A Minnesota is urging all drivers to pay attention and focus on the road. Spokeswoman Meredith Terpstra says "any distraction in the vehicle, especially behind the wheel, is not worth the risk of taking someone's life or permanently altering them with major injuries." She says the state's hands-free law is a step in the right direction, but hands-free is not risk-free, despite what some drivers believe. Terpstra recommends parking the phone before you put your vehicle in drive.
More than two dozen Minnesota firefighters are back home after battling wildfires in California and Oregon for two weeks. Brainerd Deputy Fire Chief Dave Cox says for firefighters trained mainly for structure fires, they had to get up to speed quickly on the best wildfire-fighting techniques. Cox said the terrain out there is very different, with a lot of steep mountains, and large trees and stumps that burn for a long time. State Fire Marshall Jim Smith thanked all the officers for their efforts and their unselfish service.
Authorities responded to a call in Otter Tail County Tuesday about a possibly naked person taking pictures on Highway 108 near Pelican Rapids. The Minnesota State Patrol said two women were attempting some modeling and photographs and one was covered in blue paint with minimal clothing. No citations were issued but the two were advised about the dangers of standing on the highway. Deputies were initially called to the scene but deferred to state troopers because it was on a state highway. They said the women were not from the area.
Authorities in Green County say a 67-year-old farmer was killed Wednesday afternoon when he got stuck under a combine. The victim’s name hasn’t been released. Deputies say he was using the combine to harvest soybeans in a field in Washington County when the machine broke down. When he tried to fix the problem, he became trapped. Emergency responders from the Monticello Fire Department, Green County E-M-S, Monticello Police, and the Green County Sheriff’s Department got him free, but he died before he could be airlifted to a hospital. The fatal accident is still being investigated.
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