The Mississippi River in Wabasha has hit Major Flood Stage and is expected to rise some more. The National Weather Service says the river will top at 17.2 feet by tomorrow and will then slowly begin to fall. Hwy 60 and other roads in the Wabasha Area are still closed due to the flooding. Meanwhile, the Chippewa River at Durand topped 16.4 feet yesterday and will also begin to fall and should be below flood stage by Friday afternoon.
The two people were arrested in Pepin County after a pursuit on Hwy 25 last Monday. According to the Pepin County Sheriff's Department, 57yr old Trong Kim Huynh of Rochester was pulled over on Hwy 25 near the Pepin-Buffalo County Line for speeding. Huynh initially pulled over but then fled the scene with speeds reaching up to 90mph on Hwy 25, and throwing drugs out of the car window. Before entering the city of Durand, Huynh turned right onto Pleasant Ridge Lane but lost control and crashed in the ditch. Huynh fled the scene but was taken into custody with assistance from K-9 Jack. Huynh and passenger 20yr old Jazmyne D. Cannon of Rice Lake was arrested on various drug charges, bail jumping, and taken to the Pepin County Jail.
A new passenger trolley is coming to Eau Claire this summer. The trolley is expected to start operating in July and will offer tours of the city and its historic locations. Volume One is the company running the trolley and is also hiring tour guides and drivers on its website. The last time trollies ran in Eau Claire was over 100 years ago.
After weeks of rising gas prices, there's some evidence Wisconsin gas prices are going back down. Triple-A says the statewide average is three dollars and 50 cents a gallon, down four cents from this time last week. Here is Western Wisconsin Gas was still at $3.59 a gallon as of early this morning. Triple-A says right now the U.S. is seeing gas demand go down alongside oil prices.
The Pepin and Buffalo County Sheriff's Departments joined more than 280 Wisconsin law enforcement agencies in Drug Take Back Day on Saturday. At a gathering of law enforcement leaders in McFarland, Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett said Drug Take Back Day has the power to save the lives of children and pets who might get into medications they shouldn't. Barrett also said the event can save the lives of people struggling with addiction. Drug Take Back Day happens twice a year, in April and October. Law enforcement officials said people turned in 27 tons of medications during October's Drug Take Back Day.
A ten-month-old child injured in a Cannon Falls apartment fire has died. Officials say Seqouyah Johnson was pulled from the fire last Wednesday and died early Friday morning from the "inhalation of products of combustion." Two other children younger than eight rescued from the same fire remain hospitalized. Hospital officials say the children have been stabilized and placed in a medically-induced coma while being treated for burns.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) and the Department of Administration (DOA) today are alerting Wisconsinites to a potential “spoofing” scam through which scammers are using the Wisconsin State Capitol Police dispatch number and impersonating law enforcement officers. In these scam calls, the caller states that there is a warrant for the person’s arrest, they should not contact local authorities, and then the caller demands payment. In at least one instance, a scam victim sent money to the caller. If you receive one of these calls, do not give out any information and just hang up.
One person was killed in a police shooting in Wood County last Friday night. The State Department of Justice says an officer encountered someone walking just outside of Wisconsin Rapids in the Town of Grand Rapids. The officer went to check on the person, who then produced a handgun. The officer fired and struck the person. The individual died at the scene. The DOJ will turn findings over to the Wood County District Attorney who will decide on potential charges. The officer involved was not hurt, and has been put on leave.
Get ready to hear more about the flat tax in Wisconsin. Republicans are holding a hearing tomorrow on the latest plan to move to a flat tax in the state. Republicans want to use the state's seven billion-dollar surplus to help pay for a shift away from the current income tax, to a lower flat tax. Governor Evers has promised to veto any kind of a flat tax, and Republican leaders at the Capitol say they're turning their attention to other ideas. Still, supporters say moving to a low, flat tax in Wisconsin will make the state much more attractive, and could get people to move into Wisconsin.
Wisconsin added nearly 13 million trees in the state last year. Governor Evers' office updated his Trillion Trees plan on Friday. The governor says more than 12-point-nine million trees were planted, and more than two thousand acres of forestland were conserved in the state in 2022. The governor signed a proclamation back in 2021 declaring that Wisconsin will plant 75 million trees across the state by 2030.
A boy is rescued from a capsized boat on an Adams County Lake. The county’s sheriff’s office says in a Thursday Facebook post that deputies were sent to the Town of Quincy the afternoon of April 8th after dispatch reported that screams for help were coming from the water on Castle Rock Lake. When deputies arrived on the scene, one located someone with a capsized boat near the shore of the Buckhorn State Natural Area. Boats from the sheriff’s office and the DNR retrieved the unidentified youth, who wasn’t injured. The boy was returned by deputies to his residence while the overturned boat was towed back to shore and returned to the parent of the boy.
Another call for full cannabis legalization in Wisconsin. State Senator Melissa Agard, a Madison Democrat, has pushed the issue for years - but noted at a Capitol press conference on Thursday that Republicans remain opposed. Agard cited Marquette pull results which indicated a majority of respondents in Wisconsin favor ending the prohibition on marijuana use by adults. Agard on Thursday - which is know as 4/20 to advocates - announced a “Grass Routes Tour” to gather public input on full legalization. Agard said the tour will make stops in Platteville, Wauwatosa, Eau Claire and Wausau.
Wisconsin Congressman Mark Pocan testified this week in a House committee hearing entitled “School Choice – Expanding Educational Freedom For All.” The 2nd District Democrat called the topic “somewhat ironic” Pocan said studies have shown Milwaukee voucher program students performed no better on standardized tests than their public-school counterparts, and that the Milwaukee voucher program had no effect on students’ likelihood of graduating college.
A former gym teacher at a Minnesota grade school will spend two days in jail beginning Sunday -- after she threw a hockey stick at a student last year, knocking out his front tooth. The incident one year ago in March was caught on surveillance video. In the video, the teacher is seen throwing the stick at the boy after he set it down following a practice. The teacher -- Kimberley Neubauer -- was let go shortly afterward and has taken an anger management class. She pleaded guilty to third-degree assault in the case.
Minnesota's unemployment rate dipped slightly last month -- falling to 2-point-8 percent. Figures from the state show the private sector lost about 61-hundred jobs, while the government gained 400. Nationally, the jobless rate edged up by point-two percent last month.
An Osseo Minnesota company is opening Minnesota's first major vinyl pressing plant. Copycats Media is targeting about 20-thousand records per week. Company officials say the process today is the same as it was back in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Vinyl record sales overtook CDs this year for the first time since the late 80s.
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