Two children were among the three people killed when a home in Barron burned early Thursday morning. Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald identified the victims as 44-year-old Donald Albee, his six-year-old son Conner, and his five-year-old daughter Emily. The 9-1-1 report of the fire came into dispatchers just before 3:30 a-m. Emergency responders were able to get the children out of the basement and rush them to Mayo Hospital, but doctors weren’t able to save them. The father’s body was found an hour later inside the home. Albee’s girlfriend, 49-year-old Delores Dahlberg, managed to escape the flames and made the 9-1-1 call from a neighbor’s home.
The City of Durand will step up enforcement of the property maintenance ordinance. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says the goal is to work with property owners to get the needed repairs done. The city does have a community block program where qualifying homeowners can receive an interest-free loan for home repairs that does not need to be paid back until the home is sold. For more information on that program contact Durand City Hall.
The man charged with a bomb scare at Boyceville Middle-High School is pleading innocent by insanity. Alexander Tillou, from the Wausau area, is accused of using social media to threaten to kill one student and telling another the school would be shot up or bombed. He has been charged with making terroristic threats, bomb scare, and witness intimidation. His next court appearance is in July.
Congressman Tom Tiffany is the only member of the state’s delegation to vote no on an additional 40-billion dollars in aid for Ukraine. The Wisconsin Republican says while he has condemned Russia’s invasion, he couldn’t support the additional money “when working-class Americans are struggling to find baby formula at their local grocery stores and their paychecks are being wiped out by record gas prices and the worst inflation in 40 years.” House approval came on a 368-to-57 vote and the U-S Senate is expected to follow suit. Third District Democrat Ron Kind says the supplemental aid package will give Ukraine the resources it needs to defend itself.
A bill that changes the way craft breweries and distilleries can sell their products is headed to the Minnesota Senate. It passed the House on an 85-48 vote Wednesday night. Representative Zack Stephenson of Coon Rapids says his bill “frees the growler.” Stephenson says, “it ends the absurd situation where Minnesota is the only state in the country where the five largest craft breweries in the state can’t sell anything directly to consumers out of their taprooms to take home.” The legislation would allow smaller breweries to sell four and six-packs on site and craft distilleries to sell 750-milliliter bottles.
A man from northern Minnesota is accused in the April 2021 shooting death of a woman in western Wisconsin. Authorities found 42-year-old Cary Elkin of Stone Lake dead of multiple gunshot wounds in a home in the Town of Sand Lake. The Sawyer County, Wisconsin, Sheriff’s Office says evidence gathered during search warrants, interviews, and forensic analysis identified 29-year-old Manly McDermott of Bemidji as the suspect in the fatal shooting of Elkin. Investigators say they are requesting prosecutors charge McDermott with first-degree intentional homicide. He’s currently at the Moose Lake Correctional Facility serving a sentence for an unrelated firearms conviction.
Senator Ron Johnson says he doesn’t believe the overturn of Roe versus Wade will be an issue in his reelection campaign. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the Wisconsin Republican said that people seeking abortions in Wisconsin would still be able to travel to Illinois if Roe is overturned. Johnson also expects a flurry of legal challenges to Wisconsin’s abortion law if the U.S. Supreme Court follows through on last month’s leaked draft opinion by conservative justices.
Children’s Wisconsin is being sued by a former emergency room doctor over a child abuse allegation. Doctor John Cox was accused of abusing his daughter – who was one month old at the time – in May of 2019. Cox says he rolled over on her after they fell asleep together resulting in a broken collarbone and other bruises. When the child was taken to the hospital the Child Abuse Team categorized her as a victim of abuse. The doctor says the injuries were misdiagnosed and he claims the team is “out of control.” Cox and his wife filed the lawsuit.
Onalaska police say they expected to arrest a wanted person when they served a warrant at an apartment building Tuesday. Instead, they wound up taking three people into custody. No names have been released. W-K-B-T / T-V reports police asked people to avoid the area because the original suspect had a track record of weapons possession. The La Crosse County Emergency Response Team was summoned and managed to resolve the situation safely. A second person inside the apartment was wanted on a felony warrant out of Monroe County.
The outgoing chancellor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison says she won’t miss dealing with the state legislature. Rebecca Blank held her last news conference as the head of Wisconsin’s flagship state university Wednesday. Blank says state lawmakers are trying to over-regulate the university, and have constrained the school’s administrators. She says she also wishes she could have done more for diversity. Blank was Madison’s chancellor for nine years. Next month, she’ll be the new president of Northwestern University.
Police say they’ve made contact with the man accused of threatening a candidate for Congress. Jennifer Carnahan is running for her late husband’s seat in the U-S House of Representatives. She says while she was going door-to-door on the campaign trail Tuesday she was approached by a young man who made several threatening comments aimed at her. She says he also swerved his vehicle at her as she walked away. Investigators say they have identified and spoken with the suspect. He hasn’t been identified and no arrests or charges have been announced.
A construction worker was injured Wednesday afternoon when he fell from the roof of a worksite in Weston. Everest Metro Police say the man was on the job when the wind caused trusses to fall and he was knocked off. His name hasn’t been released. Emergency responders say he was alert, conscious, and breathing when they arrived. The extent of his injuries was not immediately known. Construction crews were working on the future home of a Dollar General Store at the time.
A bid by activist investors to take over Kohl’s department stores has come up short. Shareholders Wednesday rejected all ten of the investor group’s candidates for the board of directors. Instead, they voted to keep all the board members chosen by the company’s directors. It was the latest attempt to buy or change Kohls. The activist investors have pushed for months to try to change how the Wisconsin-based company operates. There are other offers to buy Kohl’s, and company leaders say they are under review.
A 59-year-old Belle Plaine man is accused of damaging property belonging to a complete stranger, then setting it on fire. Dwayne Edward Roach faces several felony charges for allegedly carrying out a destructive crime spree earlier this month. Authorities say it all started when Roach stole a fire department vehicle in Cedar Lake Township May 4th. When Roach was taken into custody deputies say his pupils were dilated and his eyes were bloodshot. As he was being taken to jail the deputies say he admitted stealing a fire department vehicle.
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