The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a discussion of a new policy regarding the license plate reader cameras, an update on the fence on North Eau Claire Street, and reports from the Mayor and department heads. Tonight's meeting begins at 5:30 at the Marten Center in Mondovi.
The Pepin County Health Department will distribute Narcan to area businesses and residents. Pepin County Health Officer Heidi Stewart says the Health Department has a supply of Narcan that is available. Recently the Health Department trained Pepin County Tavern League members to allow the members to have Narcan available at their establishments.
The sheriff in Barron County is reminding people about life jackets after a water rescue on Sunday. Deputies had to rescue two kayakers who went into the water on the Red Cedar River below the Mikana Dam. The sheriff says the two kayakers were wearing life jackets, which kept them floating while they were hanging on to a tree in the heavy current. The sheriff's office says the case is an example of just how important, and life-saving, life jackets can be.
Lawyers for the now-teenager who's accused of killing Lily Peters continue to fight to keep his case out of adult court. Both the defense and prosecution have filed their briefs with the appellate court. The suspect in the case was 14-years-old when Chippewa Falls Police say he beat, raped, and strangled Peters as she was walking home back in 2022. The case has lingered for over two years because of a judicial backlog, and because of the back-and-forth over whether the case should be tried in adult court. A judge back in January ordered the case moved to adult court, and ordered that the trial begin soon.
One person is dead, and one person is in custody after a homicide in La Crosse County. The sheriff's office yesterday said it got a 911 call from the Town of Shelby. When they arrived, deputies found a woman who was dead. The sheriff's office says deputies then arrested a person in connection with her death. There is no word yet on how the woman died, or what led up to her killing. Investigators in La Crosse say they're treating the case as a homicide.
A new urgent care center is open in Chippewa Falls today (Mon). OakLeaf Clinics says it's opened the doors for the clinic on Lakeland Drive. It'll be open Monday through Friday, eight A-M until five P-M through the end of June, and open eight A-M through eight P-M Monday through Friday starting on July 1. Another OakLeaf clinic will open in Menomonie next week.
A Democrat will keep the chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Ann Jacobs was voted in unanimously on Monday. She previously served as the chair during the 2020 presidential election. The six-member panel is made up of three Republicans and three Democrats and handles oversight of the elections process in Wisconsin. They do not run the elections, however. That task is left up to local clerks in towns, cities, and counties.
Madison Police say more people were hurt than first thought in Sunday's shooting at The Lux. The city's police department yesterday said 12 people were hurt in the shooting. Officers say 10 people were grazed by bullets, one person was injured by broken glass, and another hurt their shoulder while trying to get away from the gunfire. Madison Police continue to say they don't have any suspects or a motive in the shooting. However, investigators did say the party where the shooting happened was not authorized.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says the effort to recall him has again fallen short. The Speaker is up for reelection in November, but that fact hasn’t dissuaded recall organizers. The Wisconsin Elections Commission has until June 28 to determine whether there are enough valid signatures on a second set of recall petitions. The Commission previously rejected the first attempt to recall Vos for lacking enough valid signatures. Vos last week said he found thousands of invalid signatures, including many collected from outside of his current district, others that signed more than once, and still others collected beyond the allowable time. Vos also said recall organizers, who include former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman as well as supporters of former President Donald Trump, have misrepresented his record as a conservative and have even accused him of being a communist.
More woes with the finances of Milwaukee Public Schools. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction informed MPS on Thursday it's withholding the district’s June Special Education Aid Payment of over $16 million. That's after MPS was more than eight months late in sending DPI the necessary financial information. The agency said the paperwork problem in Milwaukee could affect state funding for every school district in the state. MPS is working with the DPI on corrective action to provide the needed data. If that’s completed, MPS will receive its general aid payment later this month.
The head of Wisconsin's K-12 schools says lawmakers are dragging their heels on releasing literacy program funding. Department of Public Instruction Superintendent Dr. Jill Underly says the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee has yet to release some 49 million dollars earmarked to pay for Wisconsin Act 20, which requires schools to update their programming on literacy. Democratic Governor Tony Evers used his line-item veto to modify the law, removing strict requirements put in place by Republicans on how that money would be used. The Legislature is currently suing Evers over that veto.
A man serving a life sentence in prison sues a Southeast Wisconsin city. Zachariah Anderson seeks $10 million in damages from the city of Mequon for what he calls his wrongful arrest in 2020. Anderson was accused of killing his ex-girlfriend's love interest, Rosalio Gutierrez, and hiding his body in 2020. In 2023, a Kenosha County jury convicted Anderson of first-degree intentional homicide, hiding a corpse and stalking. The city says because Mequon police were requested by Kenosha Police to make the arrest, the city of Kenosha should bear liability in the suit.
More protests at Waupun Correctional Institution on Sunday, this time outside the prison’s walls. The prison's former warden and eight other employees were criminally charged last week in connection with the death of two Waupun inmates. Sunday, family and friends of those inmates joined former inmates to seek change at the prison. Another protest on the prison grounds supported the employees charged in the deaths. That group said staff could only work with the resources available to them, and the real accountability should be with those in charge. Last week prison inmates held a sit-in protesting the conditions of their confinement.
Urban forestry grants will open soon in Wisconsin. The state Department of Natural Resources says it's giving more than 550-thousand dollars to cities or counties looking to conserve or protect its tree population through urban forests. Grant recipients will be required to match dollar for dollar. Applications will be open July through October.
A now viral TikTok video shows the reaction of TSA agents at a Minnesota airport when a man tried to carry ten cans of SPAM onto a plane. The video posted late last month showed the Massachusetts man trying to board a flight at Minneapolis-St. Paul International. When a TSA agent started pulling the SPAM cans from his carry-on, he told the agent that the cans came "straight from the factory" and included special flavors like teriyaki. The agent performed a test on the cans before letting him through with his prize. The video has been viewed nearly 500-thousand times and has generated more than three-thousand comments.
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