The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion and possible action on an offer to purchase Peeso Creek Development Lot 12, goose hunting inside city limits, and the waiving of city permits for the new library building. Tonight's meeting begins at 5:30 at the Roger Marten Community Center in Mondovi.
One person was injured in a single-vehicle accident in Isabelle Township on Saturday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff's Department, 21yr old Matthew Mehrkens of Bay City was traveling southbound on Hwy 35, lost control of the vehicle, entered the ditch, and overturned. Mehrkens was transported to Mayo Hospital in Red Wing.
UW Stout is expanding its solar energy capabilities. The University is installing over 500 solar panels at Jarvis Hall on campus. The project is designed to provide energy to Jarvis Hall and adjacent buildings and is expected to save the university nearly $170,000 per year. The $2.7 million project is part of the campus plan to be carbon neutral by 2050 and is expected to be completed by next March.
There will be more testimony today in the case of a teenager charged with 10-year-old Lily Peters. The lawyers for the suspect yesterday questioned four experts from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections about the differences between juvenile prison and adult prison. The lawyers want Peters' murder to be handled in juvenile court in Chippewa County. The now-15-year-old suspect is accused of beating, strangling, killing, then raping her on her way home last year. Prosecutors want the case kept in adult court. The hearing is expected to wrap up tomorrow.
One person is dead after a single-vehicle crash in the town of Sigel on Friday. According to the Chippewa County Sheriff's Department, Jackson Kittleson was traveling northbound on Hwy 27, when his vehicle left the roadway, and hit a tree. Kittleson was pronounced dead at the scene. That accident remains under investigation.
Old Style is reportedly leaving Milwaukee, but not Wisconsin. A number of news outlets in La Crosse yesterday said Old Style will be brewed in La Crosse starting in November. It's a return home for Old Style, which was brewed in La Crosse starting in 1902 by the G. Heileman Brewing Company. Pabst took it over and brewed it in Milwaukee for the past 24 years. The return to La Crosse will be featured heavily during this year's Oktoberfest in La Crosse.
The bodies of two missing boaters were recovered from a Barron County lake. The body of a second missing boater was recovered from Pokegama [poe-keg-ah-ma] Lake, near Chetek in Barron County, on Saturday. Barron County Sheriff Chris Fitzgerald said the victims were 59-year-old Scott Brummond, of Chippewa Falls, and 59-year-old Doug Robinson, of Chetek. The search for the missing boaters began Friday afternoon when an empty but running pontoon was found on the lake. Responders found Brummond deceased in the water and learned there was a second boater missing. Using sonar, Robinson was found Saturday and divers recovered his body. It is not known how the men ended up in the water but the deaths are under investigation by the Wisconsin DNR.
There could be new rules for DoorDash and Uber Eats in Wisconsin. A Senate committee is going to hold a hearing today on a plan that would allow restaurants to opt-out of third-party delivery services. The plan would also require food delivery drivers to have a basic knowledge of food safety and hygiene. There is also a provision that would require delivery services to place orders with restaurants immediately. The proposed law comes after complaints about how some delivery drivers or services use local restaurants.
Wisconsin's attorney general wants to speed up his challenge to Wisconsin's abortion law. A-G Josh Kaul yesterday asked a Dane County judge to rule immediately on Wisconsin's 1849 abortion ban. Kaul wants the judge to declare the law unenforceable. That would fast-track the case for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Now that the court has a liberal majority, the court is expected to agree that the law that bans most abortions in the state is unenforceable. The judge in the case in Dane County has hinted she will strike the law down, saying Wisconsin's pre-Roe law only applies to babies that are viable outside the womb.
Minnesota has become the 13th state to allow electronic wills for residents. The Uniform Electronic Wills Act passed both the House and Senate before being signed by Governor Tim Walz. The online document needs multiple witnesses and signatures for authenticity. The new implementation is a cheaper option compared to the original process.
The governor weighs in on Wisconsin’s false electors During a bill signing in New Glarus on Friday, Democratic governor Tony Evers said the 10 Wisconsinites who participated in the false electors scheme following the 2020 presidential election in the state should be charged and held accountable. Wisconsin and its false electors are among several states highlighted in the federal indictment handed down Tuesday against former President Donald Trump, who argued falsely that he had won Wisconsin. Evers's comments came the day after Democratic Attorney General Josh Kahl told reporters he can neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation into the state's false electors.
Congressman Mike Gallagher wants the Biden Administration to use its military power more forcefully around the globe. The Green Bay Republican said the weak American presence in Europe allowed Russia to invade Ukraine. Gallagher wants the US Navy to move more ships closer to China to prevent a possible invasion of Taiwan. He spoke at an event in Iowa last week.
The body of a 24-year-old man was pulled from the river following a Thursday incident that also took the life of a 25-year-old man. The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office reported the two were playing with a football by the river when one person went out after the ball, fell off the end of a sandbar and went under the water. The other person who went to help the person who fell in also went under the water. Crews pulled the body of the 25-year-old from the river Thursday evening. The sheriff’s office says the families of the victims need to be notified before the men are identified.
The FBI says the father of that missing Sauk County boy passed a polygraph last week. Agents met and talked with William Yoblonski as part of the ongoing search for his 13-year-old son James. James Yoblonski has been missing since mid-June, his dad said he disappeared into Devil's Lake State Park on some kind of survival mission. The Yoblonski family is offering a 10-thousand-dollar reward for James' return. His dad says he simply wants his son back home.
Former Minneapolis Police Officer Tou Thao is going to prison for aiding George Floyd's murder. He was sentenced this morning in Hennepin County Court to nearly five years behind bars. The criminal case was the last trial in the state court among the four officers who had roles in Floyd's killing on May 25, 2020. Thao was accused of holding back concerned bystanders as Officer Derek Chauvin held his knee to Floyd's neck.
Minnesota legislators are temporarily suspending a rule designed to keep mentally ill inmates from sitting in jails. This action was taken after lawsuits started adding up over several months of waiting for transfers to more appropriate facilities. The law named the 48-hour rule required the Minnesota Department of Human Services to transfer jail inmates who are civilly committed to a state-operated mental health facility within 48 hours. In July, 48 people had been waiting past the 48-hour period for admission to a mental health facility operated by DHS.
A state-of-the-art device designed to safely end car chases is being launched by the Bloomington Police Department. The device is called MobileSpike and is a spike strip that extends from an officer's police cruiser. MobileSpike is designed to stop a suspect's vehicle without an officer having to do a pit maneuver or deploy spikes by hand by getting in the path of a fleeing suspect. Police say the tool works at high speeds and can puncture tires of any size, including those on trucks. MobileSpike is being installed on three of the department's squad cars.
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