No one was injured when a semi went off the road north of Nelson this morning. According to Buffalo County Sheriff Mike Osmond, the accident happened at the intersection of Hwy 25 and 35. The intersection may be limited or shut down this morning at 11 to remove the semi.
Six adults and three kids are rescued after a sheet of ice breaks away from the shore and float out into Lake Pepin. According to the Goodhue County Sheriff's Department, the group had entered on ice from Maiden Rock for ice fishing Sunday evening and had to leave behind a snowmobile, ATV, and fishing gear when rescue crews came with airboats to take them back to shore. The Sheriff’s Office says the combination of a warm winter along with the recent precipitation has created dangerous conditions. The current from the Mississippi River also complicates the ice conditions of Lake Pepin.
The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion and possible action on a Facade Grant Application for Ryan's Sports shop, reports from the mayor, city administrator, and department heads, and the council will go into closed session for a discussion of the purchasing of public properties. Tonight's meeting begins at 6:30 at Durand City Hall.
Police in Chippewa Falls say an elementary school student is responsible for the 911 call about a threat at the high school yesterday. Investigators tracked down the young student after a series of calls to 911, most of them were just filled with curse words, but police say one call mentioned an active shooter at the high school. Chippewa Falls' superintendent sent a note home to parents yesterday explaining the situation, and saying there was never a real threat. Police say the young caller's parents are dealing with the situation.
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, is the best hospital in the world. That's according to Newsweek's annual list of the top 250 hospitals across the globe. The magazine analyzed more than 23-hundred hospitals in 28 different countries based on consistent patient outcomes, innovation, and research to identify the best institutions.
Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to block the state's new meningitis and chickenpox vaccine rules. The legislature's rules committee yesterday took the first step toward overturning the new rules, established earlier this year by the state's Department of Health Services. DHS wants to add a meningitis vaccine requirement for 7th graders and change the rules for chickenpox shots. State Senator Steve Nass says the suggestions are 'arbitrary and capricious.' Lawmakers blocked the same request from DHS last year as well.
A new report warns that Wisconsin's record budget surplus could turn into a deficit if lawmakers and Governor Evers aren't careful. The Wisconsin Policy Forum yesterday released a report that says the surplus is not large enough to pay for everything that Governor Evers wants and is likely not enough to pay for a switch to a flat income tax in the state. The report also warns that the U.S. economy may be headed into a recession, and that could mean a deficit for Wisconsin. The report says lawmakers have a unique challenge this year, not in terms of budget cuts or reductions, but in deciding where they will spend more money.
The federal government is looking to pour more help into Wisconsin to replace lead pipes across the state. Wisconsin is one of four states chosen to be part of the Lead Service Line Replacement Accelerator program. That means more help from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Labor to take out old pipes, and replace them with new, safer ones. Ten communities in Wisconsin will see that help. Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey were also chosen to be a part of the accelerator program.
US Senator Tammy Baldwin proposes giving the federal government a more comprehensive way to address online threats posed by foreign governments. The Wisconsin Democrat says a recent example is Bytedance, the Chinese technology company that owns Tik Tok.” The bipartisan “RESTRICT” Act (Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology) would, among other things, require the Department of Commerce to come up with procedures to evaluate software, hardware, and social media platforms owned by foreign governments.
There are new calls for baby boxes across Wisconsin after police in Whitewater found a baby dead in a field over the weekend. State Representative Barb Dittrich yesterday said while parents can surrender a baby to police officers or firefighters no questions asked within 72 hours, state law doesn't allow for baby box surrenders. Dittrich says the baby's death shows the need for a new law and more education.
Lawmakers in Madison are considering a plan that could allow inmates in the state's prisons to have more things. Current state law caps inmate possessions at 75 dollars worth of stuff, plus a TV, radio, or musical instrument worth as much as 350 dollars. The new law would bump that up to 150 dollars worth of stuff, or a musical instrument worth up to 350 dollars.
Madison may sue Kia and Hyundai because some of their cars are too easy to steal. Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway yesterday accused the two carmakers of 'cutting corners' and 'putting people at risk.' Madison Police reported a huge spike in Kia and Hyundai thefts over the past few years. One of the reasons is the rise of Kia Boys videos, which show how easy it is to steal some Kia or Hyundai models with nothing more than a USB cord. Madison's city council will consider a motion to file a lawsuit at tonight's council meeting.
A Central Wisconsin food cannery is penalized for safety violations. The Del Monte Foods cannery in Plover faces possible fines of over $200 thousand after a seasonal worker suffered a partial finger amputation while trying to unjam an unguarded palletizer machine. Investigators for the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration discovered workers routinely using their hands to redirect pallets stuck in the palletizer's dispenser. That led to a determination that the cannery's lack of machine guarding and safety procedures exposed employees to machine hazards. The company was cited for violations of machine safety and fall protection standards.
The Better Business Bureau continues to see a rise in employment scams. Those types of scams ranked number 2 in their Risk Report in 2022. BBB Wisconsin spokesperson Lisa Schiller says most employment scams they see are a variant of the bad check scam. That's when a scammer sends you a fake check, asks you to cash it for your payment, and then send back the rest. When that check bounces, you're out the money. People who were caught in this scam lost over 15 hundred dollars on average, as opposed to the total average loss of around 170 dollars.
It was a lucky weekend for some Wisconsin Lottery players. The lottery yesterday said four winning tickets were drawn between Friday and Sunday. The first was a 100 thousand-dollar All or Nothing ticket sold in Pulaski on Friday. The next was a 350 thousand-dollar SuperCash winner sold in Turtle Lake. A Kwik Trip in Sparta then sold a 150 thousand-dollars Powerball ticket on Saturday. And someone then bought a 100 thousand-dollar All Or Nothing ticket in Franklin on Sunday.
Experts believe they found a new form of life inside a cave in southern Minnesota. A manager at Forestville/Mystery Cave State Park told MPR News that their staff found some potentially unknown millipedes in the 13-mile Mystery Cave. They're tiny, translucent, and have no eyes. The park sent samples to the University of Minnesota researchers to learn more, but it could take years to determine if they're a new species.
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