An Eau Claire woman is looking at a deal in a burglary case where she bashed an elderly man in the head. Megan Dehate entered her guilty plea on Friday. She was originally facing armed burglary and abuse of an elder person charges, but she pleaded that down to burglary and physical abuse of an elder person instead. Investigators say Dehate was high on something when she broke into an elderly couple's home. They say she smashed the husband in the head with a 20-pound piece of metal, but he was able to wrestle her to the ground. Dehate is due to be sentenced in August.
One person is dead after a rollover wreck in Bloomer. The Chippewa County Sheriff's Office says it happened on State Highway 40 near 155th Avenue. Deputies say a driver took their truck off the road and over a driveway. That's when deputies say the truck went into the air, and then rolled over into some trees. The driver was the only person in the truck and died on the scene.
The new Mondovi Public Library is nearly completed. The Library will be closed on May 20-21 as staff moves into the new library. Checkouts won't be available while the library is closed but will resume after the move is complete. A grand opening for the new library is scheduled for June.
Another 15 Ash trees that are in the boulevards in Durand will be coming down this summer. The trees are coming down due to the spread of the emerald ash borer. Durand Mayor Patrick Miliren says the remaining ash trees are in city parks and will be removed in the next few years. Many residents have taken advantage of a program where the city and property owner each pay 25% of the cost of the removal of the boulevard tree, and the rest is covered by a forestry grant from the Wisconsin DNR.
The Wabasha County Board is meeting tomorrow. Items on the agenda include approval of the project agreement between the county and MNDOT, discussion of an ordinance for a Local Housing Trust Fund and report from county department heads. Tomorrow's meeting begins at 9am in the old courthouse annex in Wabasha.
The old Girl Scout camp in Chippewa County is back open. The camp's new owners cut the ribbon on Camp Nawakwa yesterday. The Girl Scouts owned the camp for years but sold it off last year because of the costs. A group of former Girl Scouts in the Chippewa Valley came together to buy the camp, fix it up, and reopen it. The group's board secretary Amanda Stephens says the idea is to keep the camp open for Girl Scouts, and other youth groups going forward.
One person is hurt after a reported stabbing in Tomah on Saturday. According to the Tomah Police Department, officers responded to a resident on the 300 block of Hollister Avenue for a reported stabbing. When law enforcement arrived, they found a person on the sidewalks with stab wounds on their back. The person was taken to the hospital and is in stable condition. The suspect was located at the same address and taken into custody without incident.
There will be another protest on campus at UW-Madison today. UW faculty members and staffers say they plan to rally in support of the pro-Palestinian protesters who've been on campus now for a week. Professor Keith Woodward says they want to listen to their students and hear their ideas. The faculty rally will be at the Library Mall, which is the center of the current protests. Faculty members say they plan to meet with students in the tent village on campus and share their thoughts.
The UW's president says campus protest tent communities will 'ultimately be gone.' President Jay Rothman was on Milwaukee TV over the weekend, and he said the university will not allow protesters in Madison and Milwaukee to continue to camp-out on campus. But Rothman did not say how, or when the university will deal with the protesters and the tents. UW-Madison sent the police in last week to clear the campus. Since then, protesters have returned and university leaders say they are negotiating with protesters. Rothman said some of the protesters' demands, like a police-free campus, are non-starters.
A new report highlights the toll of reckless driving in Milwaukee. Wisconsin Policy Forum analyst Mark Sommerhauser says between 2002 and 2022 the number of speeding-involved crash fatalities in Milwaukee County increased more than 200%. In the other 71 Wisconsin counties, they declined by 55%. Sommerhauser calls that divergence “pretty staggering.” The report comes as Milwaukee continues to address reckless driving, and with officials asking the legislature to allow the use of red light cameras to deter speeders.
Applications to hunt elk this season in Wisconsin are open through the end of the month. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the Black River Elk Range will be open for the first time since elk were re-introduced to the state. Applicants have to choose between the Black River Elk or Clam Lake ranges while applying. Fees are ten dollars each, with seven of those dollars going toward elk management and habitat improvement. Applications are available on the DNR's website.
The state DOJ says the Mount Horeb Middle School student killed by police had pointed his pellet rifle at officers before they shot him. The Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation said in a news release on Saturday that officers directed him to drop his weapon and he would not comply. The student died on the scene after lifesaving measures were deployed. In the release, the DOJ described the weapon as a Ruger 177-caliber pellet rifle. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Friday cited unnamed sources to identify the student as a 14-year-old eighth-grader. The DOJ release did not provide his identity.
A private college in northern Wisconsin will remain open. After announcing in March they'd have to close if they couldn't raise $12 million by early April, the board of trustees at Northland College announced Thursday that the Ashland school would operate on a refocused model. The changes would lead to staff and faculty adjustments leading to almost $7 million in savings. The college will also offer only eight majors. The board says Northland will conclude its current academic year as planned and offer support to students who want to transition out of the college. The 132-year-old school is the nation’s first environmentally focused liberal arts college.
Olmsted County investigators have arrested two men who allegedly scammed a woman out of 16-thousand dollars. The sheriff's office says the victim reported the scam on Monday. One suspect reportedly identified himself as a deputy and told the woman she had missed a court date and needed to pay immediately or go to jail. She met the suspect outside the county government center and paid him. Police identified and arrested Demonte Brazil of Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday. They also arrested Gabriel Weatherspoon of South Bend, Indiana, who was in the car with Brazil at the time of his arrest. Both men are facing charges of theft by swindle and impersonation.
A soon-to-be life sciences communication graduate at Wisconsin-Madison is the new "Alice in Dairyland." Halei Heinzel was chosen on Saturday by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. As the 77th Alice in Dairyland, Heinzel will have a full-time position with the agency touting the importance of agriculture in the state. Current Alice in Dairyland, Ashley Hagenow, will serve until July 8th, when Heinzel takes over.
Two Wausau West High School students are champions in an international competition. Senior Jackson Albee and junior Sadie Steinbach teamed up to win the School-Based Enterprise-Retail Operations competition at the International Career Development Conference. The two beat out 304 other teams to win the award. The event was held in Anaheim, California.
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