The Durand-Arkansaw School Board is holding a special meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include action on the sale of district property along with discussion and possible action on a revised safe to return to school plan. Tonight's meeting begins at 6pm in the board room at Durand High School.
Charges have been filed against a Pierce County woman accused of stealing over $100,000 from the Ellsworth Baseball-Softball Association. Whitney O'Neil has been charged in Pierce County Court with five counts of felony theft in a business setting. Authorities allege O'Neil stole $111,714 between 2015 and 2019 and used the money for family trips, and personal trips. Her next court appearance is November 29th.
Whitehall Police has notified the public of the release of a sex offender. 56yr old Jams Springer was convicted of 1st Degree Sexual Assualt of a Child and will complete his sentence on October 18 and will be living in the Whitehall community. He will be under extended supervision from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections which includes electronic monitoring, no contact with the victims, no unsupervised contact with minors, no taverns or consumption of alcohol or drugs and not being at schools, parks, or playgrounds. He will also have to register as a sex offender.
The charges have been amended against one of two men suspected in a fatal shooting in Eau Claire. Twenty-five-year-old Juan Olivarez is now charged with first-degree reckless homicide. He was initially charged with intentional homicide. Olivarez and a second Chicago man, 28-year-old Joe Moya, are being held in custody while they wait for jury trials to be held in February. Investigators say they killed Edwin Garcia-Smith last year in Eau Claire. Moya is charged with first-degree intentional homicide.
A 32-year-old Eau Claire woman is accused of attacking and stabbing a man who called her a gay slur after a night of drinking. Charges of false imprisonment, use of a dangerous weapon, substantial battery, and disorderly conduct have been recommended to the Eau Claire District Attorney’s Office. Authorities say they responded to the report of a stabbing incident Sunday. The victim told police Brittany Reed punched him several times, left to get a knife, then jumped on his chest and sat there for about 30 minutes while punching and stabbing him. Reed has a court hearing set for next month.
La Crosse firefighters report the discovery of a 71-year-old woman’s body inside her smoke-filled home. Fire crews were called to the location Monday just before 8:00 p-m. Investigators say they don’t know if the fire caused the death of Peggy Crowley. Her body was found near a back door. The fire wasn’t an intentional one and no foul play is suspected, but its cause is undetermined. The La Crosse County Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the official cause of the victim’s death.
A judge refuses to dismiss the weapons charge against accused Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse. His attorneys attempted to dismiss the charge on Tuesday, arguing Wisconsin hunting laws allowed the then 17-year-old to carry an assault rifle when he fatally shot two men and injured a third in downtown Kenosha. Assistant Kenosha County DA Thomas Binger said if the defense wants to tell a jury that Rittenhouse was merely hunting on that night in August 2020, they should. Circuit Judge Bruce Schroeder refused to dismiss the charge but said he'd be willing to reconsider. Rittenhouse's trial on multiple counts including homicide is to begin November 1.
Wisconsin is remembering the historic Peshtigo Fire. This week marks the 150th anniversary of the Peshtigo Fire, which burned more than a million acres, and stretched as far as Door County and into parts of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. More than 12-hundred people died. The Peshtigo Fire isn’t well known beyond Wisconsin because it happened on the same night as the Great Chicago Fire.
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A Sparta man tells investigators he was just trying to show the people in a crowd at a Board of Education meeting how a mask protects them from COVID-19. Kelly Anderson has been cited for disorderly conduct after using a hose to spray people in the audience. The meeting had become heated during a discussion of whether to require students to wear masks to protect themselves against the virus. When it was Anderson’s time to speak, he had two women hold up a bedsheet and he pulled out a pressurized sprayer. He sprayed the sheet, but then sprayed the crowd before he was escorted by police out of the meeting.
Nine Afghan refugees at Fort McCoy have measles. A spokesperson confirmed the cases Monday but says none of them are active. The measles first showed up at Fort McCoy last week. Everyone who’s been diagnosed with measles is being kept in quarantine. Doctors say nearly 97-percent of the nearly 13-thousand Afghans are vaccinated for measles and the coronavirus.
A Rochester man is sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for stabbing his estranged wife at St. Mary's Hospital. Fifty-nine-year-old Augustino Nasona pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and has already served more than years in jail. Investigators say Nason stabbed the woman four times in the hospital cafeteria where she was working in May of 2019. She suffered serious injuries and continues to recover. Nasona is also accused of stabbing another person who tried to push him away from his ex-wife.
Wisconsin's congressional delegation is predictably split on party lines over budget bills working their way through Congress. The U-S Senate has approved a one-point-two trillion-dollar infrastructure bill and a reconciliation bill will cost three-and-a-half trillion. Both measures are part of President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. Wisconsin Sixth District Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman sees reckless spending, while Wisconsin U-S Senator Tammy Baldwin says the reconciliation bill will be funded by taxing the rich. Wisconsin Eighth District Republican Congressman Mike Gallagher thinks passage of the bigger bill would be unwise. Members of the House of Representatives are on a break for another two weeks.
Wisconsin’s public health officials are reaching out again to people who’ve been close to someone who’s tested positive for the coronavirus. The Department of Health Services is re-launching its contact tracing text program. Acting health secretary Karen Timberlake says people who’ve tested positive will get a call from a contact tracer, while people who’ve been in close contact will get a text. The message will start with ‘Health Alert.’ D-H-S is asking people not to ignore the messages.
The "We Fest" country music festival is out with its top acts for the summer of 2022: Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, and Miranda Lambert. Also in the lineup are Riley Green, Chris Janson, Lee Brice, Blanco Brown, Tanya Tucker, and Clay Walker. We Fest 2022 will be August 4th through the 6th at Soo Pass Ranch near Detroit Lakes, with a new thrust stage planned. Tickets are on sale, with special general admission pricing through Friday.
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