Two people suffered minor injuries in a one-vehicle rollover accident in Pepin County Wednesday. According to the Pepin County Sheriffs Department, 68yr old Nolan Andre of Durand was traveling southbound on Hwy 85 when the vehicle left the roadway, struck a guard rail, and overturned. Both Andre and 66yr old Sharon Andre were treated at the scene for minor injuries and released.
Caddie-Woodlawn Elementary School has been named one of the top elementary schools in Wisconsin according to US News and World Report. The school was ranked 223 out of 1030 elementary schools in Wisconsin. At Caddie Woodlawn Elementary, 62% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 47% scored at or above that level for reading. Caddie Woodlawn Elementary did better in math and better in reading in this metric compared with students across the state. In Wisconsin, 41% of students tested at or above the proficient level for reading, and 44% tested at or above that level for math.
The Wisconsin D-C-I is investigating the fatal shooting of a suspect by an Eau Claire police officer Wednesday afternoon. Two officers responded to a home where someone reported that a man broke in and stabbed a woman. They encountered the alleged intruder and one officer fired, striking the man. The 30-year-old Eau Claire man died at the scene. The woman was airlifted to a regional hospital with serious wounds. The man shot and killed hasn't been identified. The D-C-I says it will turn over its investigative reports to the Eau Claire County district attorney.
An August jury trial has been scheduled for a Chippewa Falls man accused in a fatal hit-and-run accident. Thirty-eight-year-old Christopher Peterson is charged with homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle and hit-and-run resulting in death. He has pleaded not guilty on all counts. Deputies were called to a location in Lake Hallie last May. The victim was identified as 60-year-old Dennis Mohr.
A Rice Lake man has been found guilty of murder in Barron County. A jury found Andrew Brunette guilty of the first-degree murder of Garrett Macone, and that while Brunette did have a mental disease or defect at the time of the murder, the jury said he had the capacity to appreciate the wrongfulness of his conduct and to obey the law. Brunette faces life in prison and will be sentenced on January 3.
Authorities in La Crosse accuse a 38-year-old man of threatening to “eviscerate” the family of the boss who fired him. During a Thursday court appearance, Travis J. Householder was formally charged with stalking and telephone harassment, both as a repeat offender. Householder was fired Tuesday and he is accused of starting to call his former employer in West Salem that afternoon. Investigators say he texted threatening messages to the human resources director. When the victim called him, Householder repeated the threats. While he was being taken into custody Wednesday, a Wisconsin State Patrol trooper stunned him with a Taser and a La Crosse police officer hit him with a beanbag round.
The final headcount shows enrollment in U-W System schools dropped by one-point-one percent from last fall. That’s a reflection of what all colleges are seeing nationwide. The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reports fall enrollment at U-S colleges and universities is down by two-point-three percent this year. The numbers in the University of Wisconsin System may be rebounding. School officials are reporting the number of new freshmen is up by six percent. Interim U-W System president Tommy Thompson says the pandemic affected enrollment figures, but he’s pleased by the growing freshman increase.
Spending on tourism in Wisconsin increased in September - the first time that’s happened in more than a year. Governor Evers' office says monthly tourism spending grew in September for the first time since a record-setting year in 2019. Evers credits much of the bounce-back to more than 200-million dollars in federal recovery funding. Tourism spending plummeted more than 20-percent during the COVID-19 pandemic last year. The Department of Tourism still expects this year’s revenues to be lower compared to 2019, but there are signs of future growth.
Minnesota Congressman Tom Emmer is calling for reforms to federal appraiser regulations in response to backlogs in the home-buying process. The Minnesota Republican sent a letter to Federal Housing Finance Agency director Sandra Thompson urging her to take action. Emmer says there's been a 20 to 25 percent decline in the number of registered appraisers over the past 12 years, causing homebuyers to face increasing wait times and inflated prices. He wants the F-H-F-A to update regulations and standards to encourage more people to enter the profession.
Mondovi residents are reminded that alternate side parking rules are now in effect for the city. The rules will continue until April 30th and there is no parking in the downtown area from 2-6am.
Days after she said she wouldn’t resign, more accusations have been aimed at the administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Republican State Representative Janel Brandtjen led one of the investigations into the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin. Brandtjen says Meagan Wolfe told lawmakers in August that the commission had conducted audits to weed-out felons and dead people who shouldn’t be on the voter rolls. Brandtjen says she has found out the audits were incomplete or were never finished. She says Wolfe either intentionally misled lawmakers – or is incompetent.
Firefighters from more than a dozen departments were on the scene of a corn dryer fire for about three hours in Kiel Tuesday afternoon. The emergency crews had been dispatched to the location at about 1:30 p-m. The height of the corn dryer made it necessary for ladder trucks from Kiel and New Holstein to be used. No injuries were reported. The first crews to arrive found heavy smoke at the rear of the Country Visions Co-op. Investigators will try to determine how the fire started.
Kenosha County Judge Bruce Schroeder has dismissed a juror in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, for telling a joke about the police shooting of Jacob Blake. The juror was dismissed Thursday morning after telling a deputy the joke earlier this week. Rittenhouse is on trial for fatally shooting two men and wounding a third during a night of protest and rioting following the August 2020 shooting of Blake. The remaining jurors - 11 women and 8 men - will be narrowed to 12 once deliberations begin.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for licenses to grow and process hemp in 2022. There will be some changes to Minnesota's hemp program. The M-D-A will begin inspecting processor locations for the first time, the T-H-C testing fee has been reduced from 125 to 100 dollars for each growing sample, and processor license fees will remain 250 dollars for each location but require a minimum license cost of 500. There were 424 applicants and 347 growers in 2021. They planted more than 24-hundred acres of outdoor hemp and 350-thousand-square feet of indoor hemp last year.
Minnesota’s governor has signed an executive order to help the state’s livestock producers. Many are struggling to access the feed they need following this year’s drought. Governor Tim Walz says his order makes it easier for those producers to get high-quality feed by waiving some trucking regulations. Due to the drought, some farmers have already depleted the hay they reserved for winter. Those drought conditions have improved in the last few weeks. The governor announced details of a 10-million-dollar drought relief package for Minnesota farmers in September.
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