Two people were injured in a head-on collision in the town of Gale on Saturday morning. According to the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Department, vehicle one was traveling westbound on Crystal Valley Road while vehicle two was traveling eastbound. Both vehicles collided on a curve. The driver of vehicle one had to be extricated and was airlifted to a La Crosse Hospital with severe injuries. The driver of vehicle 2 was taken to a La Crosse Hospital with severe injuries. The names of the drivers are not being released at this time.
One person was injured in a car-deer accident in Nelson Township last Wednesday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, 57yr old Kerry Hilton was traveling northbound on Hwy 35 when he hit a deer that ran into the lane of traffic. Hilton was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The sheriff in Eau Claire is looking into how a woman ended up being shot by an arrow over the weekend. The woman called 9-1-1 after being hit with an arrow in the Town of Washington. Investigators are not saying who shot her, or what she was doing when she was shot. The sheriff's office says she is expected to live and says there is no threat to the community.
There is a push for an ethics commission for the Eau Claire County Board. Supervisor Mark Beckfield says he wants an independent panel to be able to look into issues on the county board without "bias or political ideology." He is pushing the idea after a change on how the county adopted its latest budget, he says supervisors were shut-out from asking questions. Supervisor Jerry Wilkie says an ethics commission could also help get some answers about the years-long investigation into the county's Department of Human Services and the million-dollar 'accounting error' that started the whole thing.
The 91yr old woman missing in Rusk County has been found deceased. According to the Rusk County Sheriff's Department's social media page, 91yr old Mary Lou Bisson was found deceased in a wooded area on Friday. Bisson was reported missing on Wednesday.
One firefighter was injured ina home fire in Oronoco Saturday night. According to authorities, crews were called around 11pm Saturday night after smoke was reported coming from the vacant home on 44th Avenue Northwest. By the time firefighters arrived, the home was fully engulfed. Officials are calling the fire suspicious, and the Minnesota Fire Marshall's Office is investigating the cause of that blaze.
We are waiting to see what Wisconsin's Elections Commission does about voter do-overs later today. A judge last week said the Elections Commission must end its guidance to local clerks that voters can get a second ballot if they change their minds. Wisconsin law allows for a second ballot, but the judge says that law applies before a voter submits their ballot. Once that happens, the judge said, votes are final. The Elections Commission has a meeting scheduled for later this afternoon to take up the judge's order.
Some people enrolled in Medicaid in Wisconsin may have had their personal information stolen. The state's Department of Health Services on Friday said over 12 thousand people had their information exposed online. It wasn't a hack. DHS said the information was posted online after a meeting in April of last year. That information included the first and last name, date of birth, gender, county location, Wisconsin Medicaid member ID number, and social security number of people enrolled in Medicaid in the state. DHS took down the personal information as soon as it was discovered. All 12 thousand people received a letter about the potential exposure and will be given a free year of credit monitoring.
The state will receive 40 million dollars in federal funding to help provide broadband internet to eight-thousand Wisconsin businesses and homes. The Biden Administration made the announcement about the additional money Thursday. The Wisconsin Broadband Infrastructure Projects program will get the money, which is aimed at helping connect rural areas in the state to the internet. It's estimated that 650-thousand Wisconsin residents don't have access to broadband internet, with most of those residents being in rural areas.
A Minnesota man is sentenced to six months of probation for his involvement in the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot. Court documents say that Frank Bratjan, who pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a capitol building, will also serve 60 hours of community service and pay two thousand dollars in fines and restitution.
The Sawyer County Sheriff’s Office has identified the body found near a burning vehicle last month. The county coroner’s office has confirmed the dead man was 75-year-old William Smith of Antioch, Illinois. W-C-C-O/T-V reports that emergency responders were called to the scene of a vehicle fire September 23rd in the Town of Hunter, which is near Hayward. When they arrived the vehicle was fully engulfed and Smith’s body was on fire on the ground next to it. Investigators say it appears he was driving when his vehicle went into the ditch, hit a mailbox, then came back onto the roadway before catching on fire.
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman was fired almost two months ago but the legal bills are still piling up for the Office of Special Counsel he headed. Gableman was hired by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to investigate possible irregularities in the 2020 presidential election. His original budget was 676-thousand dollars but the election review has already cost Wisconsin taxpayers more than one-and-a-half-million dollars. Much of that expense is tied to an open records lawsuit filed by a liberal watchdog group, American Oversight. It continues even though the office is close
U-S District Judge William Griesbach has dismissed a suit challenging the president’s student loan forgiveness program. The Brown County Taxpayers Association had filed the suit earlier this week. W-L-U-K/T-V reports the Association had alleged President Biden’s move violated the constitutional separation of powers because he didn’t seek congressional approval. The judge ruled that group didn’t have the legal standing it needed to challenge the act. He denied the motion for a temporary restraining order. The Taxpayers Association has the option of appealing that ruling to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago.
One of the three men accused of forcing four Baraboo High School students out of their car this week is a Baraboo School District employee. That's according to police, who say the suspects used a torch-like device to get the teens out of the car. Police say at least one of the suspects reportedly had a problem with one of the students.
Minnesota's senior senator plans to seek another term in office. U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar's spokeswoman Jane Meyer told the Star Tribune that the Democratic lawmaker intends to run again in two years. If she is victorious, it would be her fourth term representing Minnesota in Congress. Klobuchar ran for president in 2020.
Creighton Economist Ernie Goss says the problems that have slowed the Midwest economy are going to impact the holiday season as well. He says they asked supply managers who deal with holiday sales about the expected activity as part of the September economic survey. Goss says their response is weak -- with about less than a half a percent growth for the holiday season coming up. Goss says there has been a lot of pre-buying as retailers and other companies have built up their inventories in anticipation of supply chain disruptions. That is going to slow things down for the rest of the year.
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