Firefighters from 5 departments responded to a shed fire in the town of Lincoln on Friday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, the building on Schieche was completely engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived on the scene. No people or animals were in the shed at the time of the fire. Several tractors and other farm equipment were lost in the fire and the cause of that blaze is still under investigation.
An Alma woman was arrested after fleeing from sheriff's deputies Friday night. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, deputies clocked 33yr old Tracy Danielson driving 92mph on Hwy 35 near Cochrane. The deputy asked for assistance from Alma Police and they were able to stop Danielson after she had reached speeds are nearly 100mph. Once Danielson was pulled over deputies found a 3yr old child in the back seat and opened intoxicants. She was taken to the Buffalo County Jail where deputies say she began to resist. The Sheriff’s Department is recommending charges of OWI with a child under the age of 16 in the vehicle, recklessly endangering safety, disorderly conduct, resisting and obstructing an officer, and assault of law enforcement. Danielson was cited for speeding and open intoxicants in a vehicle.
The Durand-Arkansaw School District is hositng a presentation on preventing and responding to cyberbullying tonight. Dr. Justin Patchin from UW-Eau Claire, who has been doing research on teens, technology and cyberbullying since 2002 will be the featured speaker. All middle and high school students will hear Dr. Patchin's presentation during the afternoon and then at 7pm tonight he will have the presentation for parents and families. Admission is free to the event which should last about an hour.
A 35-year-old Barron County woman has reached a plea deal with prosecutors after they accused her of offering a child to a man for sex. Amanda Eyman was to get drugs and money in exchange. W-E-A-U / T-V reports she has entered a guilty plea to felony trafficking of a child, as a party to a crime. Eyman and Paul Osterman of Rhinelander allegedly negotiated their deal on a social media app called Meet Me. Osterman had already been charged with trafficking another child previously. Eyman’s plea was entered in Barron County Court Thursday.
Mayo Clinic Health System announced Friday that it is closing some dedicated COVID-19 testing sites in Northwest Wisconsin. Beginning today, testing locations in Barron and Menomonie will transition to primary care clinics. Patients must now schedule an appointment to receive a COVID-19 test at a primary care location. Mayo says the changes were made due to low testing volumes.
A Polk County Sheriff's deputy who was set to go to trial Friday on a drunk driving charge has instead accepted a plea deal. Anthony Grimm was off-duty when he was pulled over in Barron County in July 2020 after dispatchers got a call of a driver going 80 miles an hour all over the road. His alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a month in jail, ordered to pay fines and costs of $1,555, and his driver's license was revoked for 16 months.
A bomb squad from Marathon County was called to a home in Superior after the Thursday discovery of “suspicious devices.” Superior police say contractors were removing items from the home when they made the discovery at about 4:30 p-m. The previous residents had been evicted. Contact was made and those former residents provided an explanation for some of the devices. It was determined there was no threat to public safety. Police say they owe it to the public "to err on the side of caution during incidents such as this.”
A Wisconsin Rapids man has been sentenced for spiking his pregnant girlfriend's water with an abortion-causing drug. Jeffry Smith will serve five years in prison and 15 years on extended supervision after putting the drug in her unattended water bottle. He had allegedly tried to convince her to abort the baby in 2018. The sentence was part of a plea deal struck two days before he was scheduled to go to trial on the charges, and covers one count of first-degree attempted homicide of an unborn child. A count of illegally obtaining a prescription drug was dropped.
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Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman says she’s “absolutely frustrated” Democrats got only half of the billion dollars they wanted for COVID “hero pay” bonuses in a deal with Senate Republicans. That means 667-thousand workers will be eligible for 750-dollar bonuses rather than the 15-hundred proposed by the D-F-L. The G-O-P received the two-point-seven-billion dollars it wanted to re-fill the depleted Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. Governor Walz says he’s proud of the bipartisan agreement to provide hazard pay to front-line workers and relief for small business owners.
Wisconsin health officials are investigating four cases of children with mysterious liver damage. The Department of Health Services is issuing an alert about a recent increase in cases of acute hepatitis and adenovirus infections in children. One of the kids who got sick required a liver transplant, another child died. Wisconsin is not alone. The World Health Organization says about 170 cases have been reported in 16 countries, including three other U-S states.
Sixteen states have filed three lawsuits to stop the U-S Postal Service from buying more gas-powered trucks from Oshkosh Defense. Judges are being asked to order a more thorough environmental review before things move forward. W-L-U-K / T-V reports the post office is modernizing its mail delivery fleet and the states want it to buy more electric vehicles. Up to 165-thousand next-generation vehicles are being bought. The contract calls for 10-percent of the new vehicles to be electric, but that percentage has already been doubled. The Post Office is paying almost three-billion dollars for the first 50-thousand vehicles.
A Starbucks in Oak Creek is the first in Wisconsin to become unionized. Oak Creek workers demanded recognition for their union in February, and chose Workers United International as their representative this week. The union will now begin negotiations with Starbucks on pay, benefits, and hours. More than 200 Starbucks locations around the country have filed for elections to be represented by Workers United. There’ll be votes in Plover, Madison, and the Fox Valley in the weeks to come.
More than 533-thousand travelers passed through Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport during March. The Milwaukee Business Journal reports that represents a 59-percent increase in passenger traffic when compared to the same month last year. Airport officials say airline traffic continues to increase as the pandemic recovery continues, but it still hasn’t reached 2019 levels measured before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Southwest Airlines is the dominant career with 39-percent of all the passenger traffic.
Oscar-nominated actor Willem Dafoe will be coming home to UW-Milwaukee to give the commencement speech this year. Dafoe will give the speech on May 22, the same day he'll be accepting an honorary Doctor of the Arts. Dafoe attended UW-Milwaukee in 1973 and 1974 before leaving to work with the independent experimental Theater X. Dafoe has been nominated for an Academy Award 4 times and has been in over 100 films in his career. He calls his time at UW-M a formative and positive experience.
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