A Winter Storm will be affecting the WRDN listening area today through Saturday morning. Rain will change to heavy snow during the day Friday while strong northeast winds develop. Accumulating snow is expected across the entire area, potentially as high as 4 to 8 inches north of the Interstate 90 corridor. Winter Storm Warnings are in effect for the entire WRDN listening area tonight through Saturday morning.
The City of Mondovi has a new police chief. The city council approved a conditional offer to Buffalo County Sheriff's Deputy David Shapiro during last night's council meeting. Shapiro is a longtime resident of the City of Mondovi and has also worked as a part-time officer for the Mondovi Police Department. After all background checks are completed Shapiro will start in the chief's position.
The Buffalo County Sheriff's Department is warning about some new Facebook scams posting puppies for sale and Morgan Wallen Concert tickets. The scammers ask the victim to pay using Venmo or other online money transfer apps like cash app to pay for the puppies or concernt ticket. After the victim pays the scammers, they disappear. The sheriff's department is recommending to not use money transfer apps until you physically talk to the person or verify their identity first.
While we have winter weather for the next few days, the Dunn County Emergency Management wants to remind residents that the county will begin testing the outdoor emergency sirens next month. The tests will be conducted on the first Monday of the month at 10am starting this Monday and running through October.
With the winter weather, spring sports for many area high schools are delayed. Should the spring sports schedule be changed? Durand-Arkansaw School Superintendent Greg Doverspike is working with the WIAA to look at all high school sports schedules to see if the start times can be adjusted. Doverspike points to the 2022-2023 school year when the Durand-Arkansaw Boys Football and Basketball went deep into the playoffs as a reason to examine the season start times. There is no timeline for when the WIAA might consider changing the high school sports seasons.
A man who fatally shot three people at an Onalaska church decades ago in is now living in an Eau Claire adult home. La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke has confirmed that Bryan Stanley was recently released from Mendota Health Institute in Madison. Gruenke said Stanley was placed in a “24-hour supervised adult facility” that will monitor his medications and whereabouts. Stanley was found not guilty due to mental disease for the February 1985 deaths of Reverand John Rossiter, lay minister Ferdinand Roth Sr. and custodian William Hammes at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church. He was 29 years old at the time and had been confined to Mendota for most of his life since then.
The University of Wisconsin Stout has received a million-dollar donation. The money will be used for scholarships for first-year and transfer students in the real estate management program at the university. The donation will also help hire a recruiter for the program and support current learning opportunities the program provides such as taking students on-site to properties and attending industry meetings.
A Missouri man, accused of breaking into a cell phone store in Menomonie and stealing nearly $12,000 in iPhones and ipads has been sentenced in a similar case in Eau Claire County. Anthony Jordan pleaded no contest to burglary in the Eau Clarie Case and was sentenced to four months probation and ordered to pay restitution. The Dunn County charges were dismissed as part of the plea deal.
Former Greenwood High School support staff member Dylan North will spend nine months in jail. He was sentenced this week after pleading no contest in January to sexually assaulting a student. Police were notified of the possible relationship in October 2021, and court documents said North had two victims.
In-state tuition rates at the University of Wisconsin are seeing a hike for the first time in a decade. Yesterday, the Board of Regents approved a proposal from President Jay Rothman that will increase tuition and room and board starting in the fall. Rothman cited higher operating costs and a one-hundred-30-million-dollar shortfall in Governor Evers' proposed budget plan as reasoning for the hikes. Rate increases vary by location but the average annual tuition hike is roughly four-and-half percent for in-state undergrads, close to five percent including other fees.
The Wisconsin man accused of sending threatening messages to Governor Tony Evers is taking a plea deal. On Wednesday Michael Yaker of Windsor pleaded guilty to threatening former Wisconsin Highway Commissioner Gerald Mandli. In exchange, he had seven other charges dropped, including sending threatening messages to Evers, the Dane County commissioner, and the Dane County sheriff, among others. He'll face five years in prison when he's sentenced in June.
A group of Wisconsin lawmakers is working on a plan to expand Medicaid benefits. A bipartisan bill introduced this week would allow pregnant, low-income mothers to keep Medicaid coverage for a year. The bill is being co-sponsored by nearly 50 percent of the state legislature.
An investigation is underway after a train carrying ethanol derailed and caught fire in a small Minnesota farming community. Governor Tim Waltz says there's no toxic danger and no one was injured. BNSF Railway says about 22 cars carrying "mixed freight" including ethanol and corn syrup derailed in the town of Raymond and several tanks caught fire. It happened overnight and there was an evacuation area within a half mile of the crash site set up.
A new Marquette Law School survey finds diminishing approval of the US Supreme Court. The national survey finds 44% of adults approve of the job the Court is doing, 56% disapprove, a slight decline from January. Approval of the Court’s work hit a low of 38% in July 2022 and had risen gradually in every-other-month polling until this new poll. In all of these surveys since the middle of last year, approval has remained well below the 60% rate from July 2021.
This year's severe winter weather could be having a deadly impact on Minnesota's deer population. According to the state Department of Natural Resources, the cold weather and snow could be making it harder for deer to find food and escape predators. The DNR says the state's deer population is looking especially grim in northern and northeastern Minnesota.
The Milwaukee County Zoo loses its second giraffe in one week. The zoo announces Wednesday the death of a 30-year-old reticulated giraffe named Rahna. A Facebook post from the zoo says Rahna was humanely euthanized after experiencing age-related health issues. Her death comes a week after the unexpected passing of a male giraffe named Bahatika, who was also suffering from age-related ailments. The Giraffe Building at the zoo was closed to give the zookeepers and animals time to grieve Rahna’s death.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says the Merrimac Ferry is reopening soon. WisDOT Southwest Region Operations Chief John Steiner says he expects the ferry to start running within the next week or two, but no exact date has been determined. He adds that the agency is looking to have some hard-to-find parts for the ferry on-hand before opening for the season to avoid the mechanical issues that led to some shutdowns last year. Residents can check the operation status of the ferry by searching Wisconsin-D-O-T-dot-gov.
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