A Mondovi man has been arrested after a UTV vs Tank accident in Mondovi on Saturday. According to Mondovi Police, 40yr old Christopher Schultz was driving a UTV on Oak Street near Veterans Memorial Park early Saturday morning, and left the roadway, drove over a curb, and hit multiple signs before crashing into an M60 Main Battle Tank head-on that was on display at the park. Police observed signs of impairment and Schultz was taken into custody for Operating a UTV under the influence of an intoxicant.
Western Wisconsin will get the first real taste of summer this week. The National Weather Service says the WRDN listening area will see hot and humid days today, tomorrow, and Wednesday. Some places could see some strong storms along with the heat and humidity. Wisconsin's return to summer comes after a warm and wet spring that left the state with a little too much water. Forecasters say there's a chance for more rain on Wednesday, and that could cool things down a bit.
The City of Durand is having to make some changes to the Tarrant Park Pool Building. During the City Council Meeting last week, Public Works Director Matt Gillis told the council additional showers were going to have to be installed inside the building due to changes to state law. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says there will be some additional costs due to the changes. According to Milliren while there is a contingency fund for the project, the city has also saved some money on other parts of the project that will help cover the additional costs.
Mondovi Mayor Brady Weiss is asking for a pause in installing the 3 Flock License Plate Reader cameras in the city. While the Mayor thinks the cameras are a good idea, he is concerned about the yearly cost and its effect on the police department budget. Specifically, Weiss wants to know if the city would be able to afford the cameras if and when the city police department is back at full staff.
No one was hurt in a house fire in Lake Hallie yesterday. Crews say the fire started in one room, but quickly spread to the rest of the house. Firefighters say it took them 15 minutes to knock down the flames once they arrived. There is no word on what caused the fire, or just how much damage it did.
Wisconsin's Republican U.S. Senator says he is encouraged by the progress being made to fill the void created when HSHS closed its two hospitals in the Chippewa Valley. Senator Ron Johnson over the weekend said he has met with leaders of the Chippewa Valley Health Cooperative, and he likes what they are saying. Johnson said he hopes the co-op can be a bridge until Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls get new hospitals. The co-op is looking to open a new clinic but has not yet said when that will happen.
The boutique damaged by an apartment collapse in Chippewa Falls is moving to a new location until repairs can be made. No one was living in the apartments above Iris Boutique, and no one was in the store when the collapse happened last week. Iris will stay on North Bridge Street, but occupy the space that used to be Lucy's Eatery. The city inspector says the owner of the damaged building has sixty days to restore the site. The last time the building was inspected was in January, according to the Chippewa Falls Fire Department.
The prison in Stillwater is back to its normal schedule after a weekend death. The Minnesota Department of Corrections says a 22-year-old inmate was found dead in the prison Saturday morning. No one is saying just how the inmate died, but investigators say it looks like a death related to synthetic drugs. The prison was placed on a temporary lockdown on Saturday. DOC managers say that the lockdown was lifted yesterday.
A Wisconsin sergeant is under arrest and accused of child sex crimes. The Taylor County Sheriff's Office conducted a search in the Village of Spencer at the unnamed Clark County sergeant's home before the arrest. The warrant came from an Internet Crimes Against Children investigation. There are four charges against the suspect, who was released after paying more than twelve thousand dollars in bonds.
A daycare worker has been arrested in Rochester after allegedly injuring a young child with a pizza cutter. Police arrested 26-year-old Andrianna Newburn of Pipestone on Thursday. Investigators say Newburn was arguing with a co-worker when she allegedly grabbed a pizza cutter and threatened to injure the co-worker's child. She reportedly went into the infant room and began swinging the pizza cutter, hitting the co-worker's child. Newburn is facing multiple charges, including felony assault of a child and making terroristic threats.
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Mercury Marine is laying off more than 250 people in Fond du Lac. The company made the announcement Thursday. Mercury says the 'softening of consumer demand' is to blame, but so are high interest rates and a slow-down in boat building from some of the company's partners. In all, 300 people who work for Mercury Marine will lose their jobs, and all but 50 of those layoffs are coming in Fond du Lac. The recent layoffs come after 100 people were let go at Mercury Marine earlier this year.
Add UW-Oshkosh to the growing list of UW schools that are losing their branch campuses. UW-O yesterday said it will close its Fox Cities campus in Menasha at the end of the next school year. University leaders say it's a tough but necessary decision to try and pull Oshkosh out of an 18 million-dollar budget deficit. There were just over 500 students at the Fox Cities campus back in the fall, down from over 16 hundred in 2018. Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson slammed the decision yesterday, accusing UW leaders of betraying the trust of students and the community in Menasha.
Alverno College is cutting a large number of its academic programs after declaring a financial emergency. The board of trustees announced on Friday the school plans to cut a third of its majors, including English, history, and mathematics. A fourth of the graduate programs at the Catholic women's school in Milwaukee will also be eliminated. A college spokesperson said in a statement that all undergraduates will be able to complete their majors. Not all graduate students will be able to finish their degrees at Alverno, but the statement said the school is working with other colleges. In addition, Alverno will eliminate 25 full-time faculty positions and 12 full-time staff positions.
Madison man could spend the next 20 years behind bars after being found guilty of stealing almost a half-million-dollars from the government during the coronavirus outbreak. The Department of Justice announced that a jury in federal court convicted 36-year-old Eric Upchurch on multiple charges related to making false statements on more than a dozen P-P-P loan applications. Prosecutors argued that Upchurch deposited 400-thousand-dollars in loans straight into his bank account, and then laundered the money through cryptocurrency. A sentencing date is scheduled for August 30th.
More than 32-point-eight million dollars in overpayments were recovered in fraudulent unemployment claims in Wisconsin last year. The state Department of Workforce Development says there were more than 23-hundred identity theft investigations, along with almost two-thousand worker misclassification tax audits. DWD Secretary Amy Pechacek says more than thirty programs have been launched or expanded in the past five years to help prevent unemployment insurance fraud.
Temperatures are rising in Wisconsin, and the chances of pavement buckling are increasing with them. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says pavement can buckle when the weather quickly changes from cold to very hot. The department says this causes slabs of pavement to expand and push against each other, potentially resulting in unexpected bumps or dips in the road.
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