The search for a missing woman in Dunn County has come to a sad end. The Dunn County Sheriff's office says they've identified Margarite Endres' body. Deputies say someone found the body while canoeing on the Chippewa River about two weeks ago. Endres went missing in early February. There's no word how she died.
A Minnesota City woman has been arrested on drug charges in Buffalo County. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, a k9 deputy pulled over 33-year-old Amber Gamer for operating left of center on Hwy 35 in Buffalo Township on Saturday. The K9 detected drugs in the vehicle and after a search deputies found 129 grams of methamphetamine, 5.8 grams of cocaine, and 88 grams of psilocybin. Gamer has been charged with possession with intent to deliver all three drugs and was arrested.
The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion and possible action on user policy updates for the Marten Center, updated general parking regulations, and reports from the Mayor and department heads. Tonight's meeting begins at 5:30 at the Marten Center.
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire undergraduate students will participate in high-level laboratory research and training in the fields of neuroscience and regenerative sciences this summer at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, through a nearly $600,000 National Institutes of Health grant. The new UW-Eau Claire – Mayo Clinic Regenerative Neuroscience Scholars (ReNS) program will provide high-quality summer research opportunities for UWEC undergraduates at Mayo Clinic in Rochester through the well-established Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program, along with additional training related to neuroscience, regenerative sciences, and biotherapeutics.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) plans to treat select areas in nine western Wisconsin counties for spongy moth (Lymantria dispar) starting in May. The following counties are scheduled to receive Btk treatments: Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, and Dunn. Btk is a naturally occurring soil bacteria that kills spongy moth caterpillars feeding on treated canopy foliage. Btk is not toxic to people, bees, pets, or other animals. Some people with severe allergies may wish to stay indoors during nearby treatment applications.
Eau Claire County's sheriff is asking people not to move any hand grenades they find. Sheriff Dave Riewestahl is making his unusual request after someone found a hand grenade over the weekend and brought it to the sheriff's office. Deputies say two people found the grenade near the Chippewa River on Sunday and brought it to the county courthouse. The sheriff's office called in the bomb squad from Marathon County, and they were able to safely destroy it. The sheriff says he doesn't think anyone committed a crime, but said the next time, it's much safer to just leave the grenade where it is, and let the authorities take it from there.
Police say a Rice Lake man was busted with 15 thousand dollars worth of meth. Barron County's sheriff says undercover agents busted 33-year-old David Anderson at his house on Friday. Investigators say Anderson had 211 grams of meth, worth about 15 thousand dollars on the street. Anderson is now being held on charges of possession with intent to deliver.
A former Olmsted County deputy has entered a not-guilty plea following his indictment of federal child pornography charges. Mathew Adamson of Rochester entered his pleas during an arraignment hearing yesterday in St. Paul. Prosecutors accuse him of using minors in the production of pornography between 2015 and 2023. He's also facing charges in Olmsted County for allegedly trying to solicit sex from an undercover officer posing as a child. His trial on the federal charges is set to begin in July.
The White House announces new, stricter requirements for nursing homes that get federal funding. In La Crosse on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris said those facilities will have to maintain minimum staffing levels and pay their workers more. The new rules require care companies to track how their federal funding is spent and use 80 percent of it to pay their staff. Up until now staffing levels have been left to individual states to manage. The La Crosse stop was Harris’ third trip to Wisconsin this year. The VP also attended a separate campaign event in La Crosse.
Wisconsin is increasing its tree planting goal to 100-million trees by 2030. Governor Tony Evers signed the executive order today, Earth Day. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says more than 30-million trees have been planted in Wisconsin since the state started its Trillion Trees Pledge three years ago. Those seedlings have been planted in both rural areas and urban areas, helping cities with funding through grant programming. A tree planting map can be found on the Wisconsin DNR's website.
The Wisconsin DNR says new federal PFAS rules won't change much for a clean-up in the state. The Department of Natural Resources on Friday said it is evaluating the new federal rules on PFAS pollution. Those rules declared two PFAS chemicals as 'hazardous substances' under the federal Superfund program. That will allow states to tap into federal dollars to help clean those areas. But the DNR says just two places in Wisconsin could qualify for the Superfund, the rest the DNR says, would fall under Wisconsin's jurisdiction. The DNR's Environmental Management Division Administrator says they are waiting to see how they can implement the new federal rules when they take effect later this summer.
A group hoping to unionize nurses at the Mayo Clinic will hold a March in Rochester early next month. The Med City Nursing Alliance reportedly plans to hold the "Mayo March" on May 6th beginning at 6 a.m. The planned route is from the Saint Marys campus to the Methodist campus, with the event ending at 8 a.m. The alliance is hoping to eventually unionize and collectively bargain on behalf of more than ten-thousand nurses who work for the Mayo Clinic.
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura feels he deserves some credit for helping Donald Trump win the presidency eight years ago. Ventura spoke to WCCO-TV yesterday and said Trump came to Minnesota in 2000 to talk to him about how he won the governor's race in 1998. Ventura said the Trump campaign "copied me to a 'T,'" using the former governor's blueprint to win the presidency in 2016.
An historic double brood of cicadas will emerge this spring in the east and midwest. UW La Crosse biologist Barrett Klein says we’ll see them. In addition to being very loud, the millions of cicadas will be fascinating to observe, and yes, you could even eat them.
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