One person was injured in a two-vehicle accident in Hager City on Thursday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 40yr old Kathryn Truttman of Ellsworth was traveling westbound on Hwy 10 when she went to turn southbound onto Hwy OO. She was struck head-on by a vehicle traveling eastbound on Hwy 10 driven by 32yr old Mackenzie McLod of Ellsworth. Both vehicles ended up in the south ditch. Truttman was transported to River Falls Area Hospital.
The 22-year-old man accused of taking a 15-year-old girl from her home in Chippewa County is expected in court today on kidnapping charges. Prosecutors are expected to file formal charges against Trevor Blackburn. He's the man who authorities say took 15-year-old Kryssy King from her home over the weekend. Chippewa County's sheriff said the two had a relationship, but she tried to end it. The sheriff says Blackburn came all the way to Chippewa County from Tennessee to snatch the girl. Blackburn will likely face a slew of charges.
A Fall Creek man says his attorneys didn’t adequately advise him on his options before he pleaded guilty to charges he killed his sister and her boyfriend. Wayne Price returned to Eau Claire County Court to ask that he be allowed to withdraw the guilty plea he submitted in 2019. W-E-A-U/T-V reports that he is serving a sentence of nearly 30 years. Judge Emily Long is scheduled to give a ruling on the request at a hearing next February.
Xcel Energy Customers should expect to pay more this winter to heat their homes. The company projects that from November 2022 to March 2023, the energy bill of its average customer will surge 23 percent, which amounts to about $200 more than last year. Xcel Energy Spokesperson Chris Ouellette said the added costs are because the price of natural gas has reached a 15-year high nationwide. Customers should contact Xcel Energy and ask about payment plans or energy assistance programs if they have concerns about paying their bills. To contact Xcel, call 1-800-895-4999
Gas prices are heading back up in Wisconsin and across the country. That's according to Triple-A, which reports the average price per gallon in Wisconsin is 3-93, nearly 20 cents more from the week before. That rise in price also puts Wisconsin in the fourth spot on Triple A's list of the 10 states that have seen the largest increase in the average per gallon price since last Thursday. As of Monday, the national average for a gallon of gas was between 3-78 and 3-80. Here is Western Wisconsin we are seeing prices range from 3.79 to 4.09
Eau Claire has once again closed a Phoenix Park bathroom because of vandalism. The city yesterday closed the bathroom near the trailhead for the season. Parks managers say someone destroyed at least two toilets and caused about a thousand-dollars worth of damage. The city closed one of the bathrooms near the farmers market pavilion earlier this summer because of vandalism there. Eau Claire Police aren't sure who is responsible.
Governor Evers is promising local governments more money if he is re-elected. The governor yesterday said he is going to pour about 100 million-dollars more into city, county, and township governments in his second term. The governor wants to earmark the money for public safety. Republican lawmakers say the governor's promise is an empty election-year plan that he cannot deliver on. The Republicans say the governor has had almost four years to do more for local governments but has waited until just a few weeks before Election Day to announce his new funding plan.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz says about one-million-25-thousand Minnesota workers will each receive COVID "hero pay" checks of 487-dollars. About one-point-two million Minnesotans applied for the bonuses and state officials initially denied about 214 thousand of those claims. The legislature allocated 500 million dollars for the bonus checks, to be evenly divided among those who qualify. The governor says those who chose direct deposit will receive a payment within seven to 10 business days, and those who chose to receive payment via debit card will be mailed their funds within three to four weeks. The governor says, “I’m grateful for the work Minnesotans did to help people across our state stay healthy and safe through the COVID-19 pandemic."
A man who survived being shot by Kyle Rittenhouse in August 2020 has filed a petition to change his legal name. Gaige Grosskreutz says he took the step due to continued harassment related to the case. W-D-J-T/T-V reports Grosskreutez has called for an investigation to find out how the sealing petition was leaked to a conservative news outlet. He says he has received death threats since being shot in the arm during the Kenosha protests. He says he sought the name change to protect himself and his family.
A pair of new lawsuits seek to re-allow election clerks to fix mistakes on absentee ballot envelopes. The lawsuits were both filed in Dane County last week after a Waukesha County judge ruled last month to disallow fixing information on envelopes. The first seeks to force the courts to address what a complete address is for the purposes of a ballot envelope, and whether having enough information on that ballot will let clerks fix it. The second lawsuit alleges that the ruling violates both the Civil Rights Act's voting requirements and violates voters' due process for threatening to reject ballots without notice.
A Wisconsin man was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sex trafficking. Fifty-one-year-old Cory Hereford and co-defendant Tanya Partee of Janesville were accused of using an adult and a 16-year-old to participate in commercial sex. W-M-T-V reports that both were struggling with addiction. Investigators said Hereford would withhold heroin to compel the victims to serve as prostitutes. He was sentenced last Friday in Madison federal court.
Wisconsin is at 374 coronavirus hospitalizations and falling. The state's Hospital Association on Friday said 374 people are in the hospital with the virus, including 59 in the ICU. Hospitalizations in the state have been falling steadily since August. Wisconsin's hospitalization numbers are now in line with what we saw last spring.
Nine hundred union workers at the John Deere Horicon Works plant have voted to ratify a four-year contract with the company. More than 80-percent of the union workers voted for ratification. The terms of the deal haven’t been disclosed. The Wisconsin plant produces Deere’s Gator utility vehicles and lawn tractors. The current contract agreement was about to expire. Negotiations started in July on a new deal.
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