The Streetlights that the City of Durand ordered nearly two years ago should finally be delivered this month. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says all of the supply chain issues related to the pandemic caused the delay. Once the lights are delivered, the city will work with local electrical contractors to have them installed.
Charges have been filed against a 30-year-old suspect who is accused of groping a girl inside an Onalaska Walmart. Prosecutors say Josey Amann groped the 10-year-old victim inside the store last May. The girl told her mother and she confronted Amann, then he ran out of the store. Police tracked him down five months later. He told officers he didn’t remember the girl or her mother, then he tried to run away. That’s when officers say he told them he was sick and needs help. Amann is scheduled to appear in La Crosse County Court Wednesday. He is charged with first-degree child sexual assault and resisting an officer.
A Montana man could face up to five years in prison if he is convicted of third-degree assault. David Gene Beckett is accused of breaking another man’s leg in an attack October 27th in Hastings. The victim says Beckett followed him into the Walmart parking lot and started yelling at him saying he cut Beckett off. The victim says he thought he could reason with Beckett, but he was immediately attacked. His name hasn’t been released. He reportedly had to spend nine days in a hospital after having surgery. Beckett was arrested about nine days after the attack.
A shooting inside the Mall of America left two people injured Friday and forced the mall into temporary lockdown, Minnesota authorities said. Bloomington Police Department officials said the shooting happened about 4:30 p.m. Friday. Media reports showed New Year’s Eve shoppers screaming and running from the mall. Police said the lockdown was lifted by Friday evening and officers were no longer searching for a suspect inside.
Three people were injured in a one-vehicle accident near Siren on Sunday morning. According to the Wisconsin State patrol, 45yr old Duane Vadner was traveling southbound on Hwy 35 near Godfrey Lake Road when he failed to negotiate a curve, left the roadway, and hit a tree. Vadner was taken to Regions Hospital with life-threatening injuries, while passengers 28yr old Brett Frank of Centuria and 21yr old Cortney Lagerstrom of Fredric were taken to the hospital. That accident remains under investigation.
Federal student loan payments will resume, beginning February First. Analiese Eicher with the group For Our Future Wisconsin notes candidate Joe Biden’s unfulfilled pledge to cancel ten thousand dollars in student loan debt per person was a factor in his win. About 42 million Americans are carrying federal student loan debt. The average student loan debt for new college graduates is about 30-thousand dollars. Opponents of cancellation argue it would be unfair to those that have already paid off loans.
Jury selection begins today in the trial against a Madison man accused of killing his parents. The trial against Chandler Halderson is expected to take up to three weeks. Police say Halderson killed his parents and dismembered them, before reporting them as missing over the 4th of July Weekend in 2021. Halderson has entered not guilty charges to two counts of intentional homicide, hiding a body and mutilating a body.
There are at least 28 geographic features in Wisconsin that bear a derogatory name for a Native American woman. Oneida Nation Councilwoman Jennifer Webster says “It puts women in a negative light. I don’t want my granddaughter to grow up and have someone call her a squaw.”U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland recently announced that more than 650 federal sites containing the slur would be renamed. Last March, the Wisconsin Geographic Names Council voted to approve a name change for Squaw Lake in Vilas and Onieda Counties and send it to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.
A Rochester man is accused of attacking a 70-year-old deputy in the Olmsted County jail. The sheriff's office says 32-year-old Joseph Martin hit another inmate with a food tray on December 12th and began punching the man. The deputy tried to break it up, but Martin turned on him and started hitting him in the head. That deputy was taken to St. Mary's Hospital for treatment of head and other injuries. Martin has been jailed since a June assault left two men unconscious at a bar in Dover. He now faces a new felony assault charge.
Wisconsin's public health officials are asking parents to keep their kids home from school if they've been exposed to COVID-19. The state's Department of Health Services issued guidance for families as students get ready to head back to school. D-H-S says parents should get their kids tested for the virus, as well as vaccinated if they have not yet done so. They're also encouraging parents to keep kids home if they've been around someone who's tested positive for the virus.
Days after closing three urgent care facilities because of the coronavirus, Advocate Aurora is now banning visitors from its hospitals. The policy no longer allows visitors for adult patients. The hospital system is dealing with both a spike in the number of patients and a lack of staff to treat them. Advocate closed its urgent care centers in Brookfield, Menomonee Falls, and Milwaukee because of a lack of doctors and nurses.
A number of new state laws go into effect on New Year's Day in Minnesota. Any member of the 11 federally-recognized Native American tribes in Minnesota can receive an annual state park permit at no charge to display on their vehicle or they can get daily state park permits for free. Employers with 15 or more workers are required to provide "reasonable accommodations" requested by an employee at the recommendation of a health care provider, for conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth. The law says that could include "temporary transfer to a less strenuous or hazardous position, seating, frequent restroom breaks, and limits to heavy lifting." The employer is exempted only if they demonstrate the arrangements "would impose an undue hardship" on the operation of the business.
Finding home COVID-19 test kits in stores and pharmacies can be challenging. Amid the surge in cases driven by the Omicron variant, many people have turned to the home testing kits as an alternative to long lines at drive-through testing sites.
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