A missing hunter has been found safe after a search in Buffalo County. 74-year-old Julia Vue didn't show-up at a meeting spot near the Tiffany Wildlife Area Wednesday afternoon. The Buffalo County Sheriff's Office quickly organized a search but had to call it off because of the dark Wednesday night. The DNR says it used a plane to find Vue yesterday morning. He was okay. He told the DNR he simply got lost, and his cell phone died.
The Durand-Arkansaw School District is projecting a balanced budget for the school year. District Superintendent Ryan Nelson says the district will have a balanced budget even with the loss of the federal COVID money. The final budget numbers will be released in October after the state aid is announced.
There's a plea deal in the naked picture case against an Eau Claire spa owner that doesn't include any jail time. Chris Devlin yesterday pleaded no contest to two counts of capturing an intimate representation and bond jumping. Prosecutors dismissed eleven other charges in the case. Devlin owned Renew Aesthetics. Police say it was while he was working there that he sexually assaulted at least four women. Two other women told police he took unnecessary pictures of them while they were naked. The judge gave Devlin three years of probation and banned him from spa work during that time.
People in Eau Claire are paying more for trash service than some other communities, but changing that may not be cheap or easy. The Wisconsin Policy Forum delivered its report to the city yesterday. It says Eau Claire is the only city of its size that uses a free market method for picking-up trash and recycling. That means trash bills are about 30-percent higher than in other Wisconsin cities. But the report warns that switching to city-owned trash collection would mean a huge number of up-front costs, and picking just one trash hauler could put Trash on Trucks and Earthbound out of business. City leaders say they're going to study the report before making any decisions.
Two large engineering labs and one of the busiest building corridors at University of Wisconsin-Stout have fresh, new looks this fall with students back on campus. Phase one of a two-year $7.4 million lab renovation project was completed this summer in Jarvis Hall Technology Wing. The Engineering Technology Research and Development Lab, and Plastics Engineering Lab were completely revamped, along with the hallway between the labs. Phase two of the project will take place in the summer of 2025. Adjacent and to the north of the engineering labs, the Construction Lab for construction management majors and the interdisciplinary Research and Development Prototyping Lab will be renovated.
A Winona company is out tens-of-thousands of dollars following a phishing scam. Authorities say administrators at Behrens Manufacturing sent roughly 53-thousand dollars to a bank account set up by a fraudster that they thought was legitimate. The issue started when criminals sent an email to the business that claimed one of their regular vendors needed to update the account information. The money was transferred in a single payment before managers became suspicious and recognized the scam.
Police in Rice Lake say the reports of gunshots in the city last night were because a driver modified their car to sound like gunfire. Officers rushed to the local Walmart after getting reports on an active shooter. That sent both Rice Lake's middle school and high school into lockdown. Officers later found the car, and arrested two people. Neither one of them had a gun. Prosecutors are now reviewing the case for possible charges.
Wisconsin's election managers want the state supreme court to decide if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will stay on the November ballot. The state's Elections Commission yesterday asked for a ruling from the high court. Kennedy wants to get off the November ballot because he ended his campaign. He's trying a technical challenge. The Elections Commission already said that Kennedy qualified for the ballot, and state law doesn't allow him to simply drop-off. The case is time sensitive. Local election clerks started mailing absentee ballots yesterday.
Whooping cough cases are significantly increasing in Wisconsin. The Department of Health Service says 625 cases are confirmed statewide so far this year, compared to 51 total cases reported last year. Almost half of all cases are in Wisconsinites aged eleven to eighteen years old. DHS says it encourages people in the state to make sure children are up to date on their pertussis vaccines.
Wisconsin's governor continues to say the University of Wisconsin needs more money. Governor Tony Evers yesterday said lawmakers cannot continue to 'nickel and dime' the university every year. The UW wants 855-million-more in the next state budget. Evers yesterday said the increase in this fall's enrollment shows a need. But Republican lawmakers say the small increases in enrollment don't mean the university is automatically entitled to that much more money. Budget chief, state Rep. Mark Born, said the university needs to right-size its operations before lawmakers are ready to talk about almost a billion-dollars more in state funding.
Wisconsin hunter education classes are still available now, but could fill fast this time of year. The Department of Natural Resources says the classes are run and scheduled by volunteers who may decide to go hunting themselves as seasons kick off, and won't be teaching as often. Anyone born in or after 1973 is required to have Hunter Education certification to buy a hunting license in the state. Classes are offered in person, online, or as a hybrid of both.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is urging motorists and farm operators to share the roads safely. Harvest season is beginning. Between 2021 and 2023, there were 446 crashes involving farm equipment, resulting in eight deaths. MnDOT advises drivers to slow down, use headlights, and wait for safe passing opportunities. Farmers are reminded to use lights and slow-moving vehicle emblems for visibility.
A former Milwaukee public works employee will serve prison time for an embezzlement scheme. 47-year-old Kelly Whitmore Behling was sentenced Tuesday to a year in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. The US Department of Justice says in 2022, Whitmore-Behling and a co-worker sold old and broken-down vehicles and equipment the Milwaukee Department of Public Works no longer needed, pocketing some of the money from the sales. The scheme came to light after the department conducted a thorough equipment audit.
Kopp's is almost a top-ten burger. Yelp released its list of best burgers in the country yesterday, and Kopp's made the list at number eleven. Kopp's is the only Wisconsin restaurant on Yelp's list. The rankings are based on total sales, and customer reviews. Yelp didn't say which Kopp's got the best reviews. You can grab a burger of your own at either their Brookfield, Greenfield, or Greendale locations.
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