Two people were seriously injured in a two-vehicle accident in Waubeek Township on Thursday morning. According to the Pepin County Sheriff's Department, 35yr old Eric Rubenzer of Chippewa Falls was traveling southbound on Hwy 25 when he crossed into the northbound lane and collided head-on with a northbound vehicle driven by 25yr old Levi Hayden of Mondovi. Hayden's vehicle started on fire and Hayden was pulled from the vehicle by a passerby. Hayden was med-flighted to Mayo Eau Claire with significant life-threatening injuries. Rubenzer was transported to an Eau Claire Hospital with serious injuries. That accident remains under investigation by the Pepin County Sheriff's Department and the Wisconsin State Patrol.
A 4yr old Child was killed in a farm accident in Peru township on Wednesday night. According to the Dunn County Sheriff's Department, emergency crews responded to the farm after the child was struck by a skid steer. Emergency crews provided medical care at the scene but the child died due to the injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Dunn County Medical Examiner's office. Preliminary investigation shows the skid steer was being operated by an adult family member when the child was struck by the machine.
One person was injured in an ATV vs car accident in the Town of Albion on Thursday. According to the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Department, an operator of an ATV was traveling westbound on the Buffalo River State Trail and failed to stop for the stop sign at the intersection with Missell Road and collided with a northbound vehicle. The ATV operator was transported to Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire with serious injuries. The occupants of the vehicle were uninjured.
Two people were arrested and another is at large after a high-speed chase in Dunn County early Thursday morning. According to the Dunn County Sheriff's Department, Menomonie police were investigating a burglary at the Red Cedar Plaza, when the department received the description of a vehicle involved in a burglary in Eau Clarie County. Deputies attempted to stop the vehicle near Elk Mound but it sped off at speeds exceeding 100mph. The vehicle crashed at mile marker 43 and three suspects attempted to flee on foot. 42yr old Miltiano Johnson of St. Louis and 32yr old Anthony Jordan of Florissant, MO were arrested, while a third suspect is still wanted.
A southern Minnesota farmer is the victim of a deadly crash involving a tractor and S-U-V in Faribault County. The Minnesota State Patrol says a tractor driven by 70-year-old Michael Wegner of Wells was rear-ended by the S-U-V on Highway 22 Tuesday evening. The report says Wegner died at the crash site. Troopers say the California woman driving the vehicle and two teenage passengers were taken to an Albert Lea hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The 55th annual World Dairy Expo gets underway this weekend in Madison. Dairy Expo’s Katie Schmitt says the event gives Wisconsin’s signature industry a global spotlight. World Dairy Expo runs Sunday through Friday at the Dane County Expo Center in Madison. After being canceled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, last year’s expo had an estimated 24-million-dollar economic impact on the area.
There are just three counties in Wisconsin reporting high coronavirus case levels, and they're all in northwestern Wisconsin. The latest report from the CDC says most of Wisconsin is seeing low coronavirus activity. Just Rusk, Barron, and Sawyer counties are reporting elevated levels, but that is likely because of their low populations. Wisconsin's coronavirus numbers have been steadily dropping for the past month or so.
Prosecutors in Eau Claire are dismissing the charges against the man who threatened the city's school board president because he's already in prison. A judge this week dismissed the case against 33-year-old Jeremy Hanson from California. Investigators say he threatened school board president Tim Nordin back in March over Eau Claire Schools' policy that hides gender transitions at school from parents at home. Hanson is serving time in federal prison for a similar threat in another case. Prosecutors here say there's no need to move ahead with the local case.
School buses in Oshkosh will be carrying students again this morning. It was left up to parents to get their kids to school Thursday after catalytic converter thieves targeted buses operated by the company that provides transportation to the district. Kobussen Buses was able to shift some buses so normal service could return while the damaged vehicles are repaired. The company says somebody detached the catalytic converters from its entire fleet of buses Wednesday night.
No Wisconsin governor has vetoed more legislative bills than Democrat Tony Evers in state history. Evers has struck down bills on abortion, schools, elections, and guns. Republicans aren’t very far from having super majorities in the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate and that could change in November. W-I-T-I/T-V reports that the G-O-P needs one more seat in the State Senate and five in the Assembly. That would give the party the two-thirds vote it needs in both chambers to overturn vetoes. Evers has vetoed 126 bills in a single legislative session. The old record – set more in 1927 and 1928 – was 90.
Minnesota health officials say there’s potential for a measles outbreak in Minnesota and are asking parents to make sure their children are vaccinated. The 13 cases in June are well over the annual average, and Department of Health Epidemiologist Supervisor Cynthia Kenyon says measles can be severe. She says it’s concerning that close to half of the 13 patients are hospitalized. Most of the cases are in the Twin Cities and came from travel to countries where measles is common.
Papers filed in federal court indicate the Missouri man accused of killing two brothers from Shawano County will be entering a guilty plea. Prosecutors say Garland Nelson shot Nick and Justin Diemel to death over a 250-thousand dollar debt connected to cattle. Nelson was facing the death penalty but the guilty plea may take that off the table. The U-S Attorney’s Office filed a motion Tuesday to allow Nelson to be released from federal custody so he could enter a guilty plea to the state charges.
A new drug involved in Wisconsin clinical trials is showing it can help patients struggling with dementia. The Japanese-based drugmaker reported Wednesday that early results show the treatment – lecanemab – reduced patient clinical decline by 27-percent after 18 months. Those are called promising study results as companies try to find a way to slow the fatal disease of Alzheimer’s. U-W Health had announced last year that trials would be conducted in Wisconsin as scientists search for something to aid the prevention of Alzheimer’s. Additional volunteers are being enrolled now.
More than 37-hundred stops were made during a summer traffic initiative aimed at addressing dangerous driving behaviors on Minnesota roads. State Patrol Lieutenant Gordon Shank says they made sure Project 20-22 was not just a “metro area” program. He says their Brainerd, Rochester, and Duluth district offices were heavily involved in getting speeders to slow down and distracted drivers to stay off their phones. Over six weekends from May through September, 27-hundred drivers were stopped for speeding -- along with 144 seat belt violations, 137 distracted drivers, and 61 impaired driving arrests. Shank says the goal of Project 20-22 is to save lives.
Aging infrastructure is a problem for many rural healthcare providers. John Monson with farm credit cooperative Compeer Financial says assisted living facilities are lacking across the country, with two people often sharing a room with a sheet down the middle and bathrooms too small to fit into. Monson says many of his farmer clients end up in assisted living and they want to make sure they have access to “world-class facilities.” Another challenge is the cost to keep rural healthcare staff. Monson says Compeer is partnering with local banks to help finance assisted living facilities, clinics, and hospitals in rural areas.
A Wisconsin company and its employees are helping Hurricane Ian victims in Florida. Generac is a maker of power generators headquartered in Waukesha. The company sent a team to Georgia Wednesday with all kinds of parts and pieces for people whose generators were damaged or destroyed. At last word, the team was still waiting for the go-ahead to proceed to the hurricane zone.
An electric fire truck, Jolly Good soda, and a massive rope shovel are up for this year's title of Coolest Things Made in Wisconsin. Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce unveiled this list Wednesday. It includes 16 things. The contest has become very popular as it highlights all of the things, from the small to the huge, that are made in the state. This is the seventh year that WMC has asked people to vote on the Coolest Things Made in Wisconsin. Last year's winner was a massive floating crane built in Manitowoc.
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