A St. Paul man was sentenced to two years in prison yesterday in connection with a high-speed pursuit in Dunn County in December of 2023. John Richard Hill received the sentence along with four years of supervision. According to authorities, Wisconsin State troopers tried to pull over Hill after learning the SUV he was driving may have been involved in a Minnesota carjacking. Hill led troopers and Dunn County deputies on a 35 minute chase, driving recklessly and exceeding 110 miles an hour, and even running through the city of Menomonie.
Dunn Energy Cooperative sent out a load of humanitarian supplies to South Carolina, including thousands of dollars in water and generators. The donations were made on behalf of Wisconsin Electric Cooperatives and made possible through the Federated Youth Foundation, the Walmart distribution center (DC) in Menomonie, and Sam's Club in Eau Claire. These supplies will benefit the members of Aiken Electric Cooperative, INC in South Carolina. This is where two of Dunn's linemen spent nearly two weeks helping rebuild the electrical system.
The City of Mondovi will be holding the fall clean-up on Friday. GFL will conduct curbside pick up of furniture items. Each residence is allowed up to two items, the items must be able to be lifed by hand and not exceed 75lbs, and items must be placed curbside before 6am on Friday. Items not allowed include mattresses and box springs, tires, computers, appliances, dehumidifiers, televisions, grills, hide-a-bed or sofa recliners, construction or demolition waste (anything that was permanently attached to your house), and anything that contains or is of hazardous material. For more information, contact Mondovi City Hall.
An area legislator is speaking out after Pure Prairie Poultry abandoned its farmers and left over 160,000 chickens without feed in western Wisconsin. 92nd Assemblyman Trig Pronschniski, whose district is in the center of the issue wishes the state Department of agriculture would have at least come forward with a plan. Pronschniski said he has been in contact with the Chairman of the Assembly Ag Committee to begin the process of legislation to prevent this from happening again.
The Eau Claire County Board is holding two meetings for public comment on the proposed 2025 budget. The board of supervisors says its looking for feedback during a meeting at seven P-M. on November sixth. The hearing will be in the county board room in the Eau Claire Government Center on Oxford Avenue. Written feedback can be submitted on EauClaireCounty-dot-gov.
Wisconsin's budget surplus is over four and a half billion dollars. The state's Department of Revenue released its latest figure yesterday. The final numbers show Wisconsin has four-point-six billion-dollars more than it spent. The state also has nearly two billion-dollars in its rainy day fund. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers said the extra money should be reinvested in his next budget. Republican lawmakers, however, have said in the past that they want to give the money back to the people of Wisconsin.
Most of Wisconsin's public schools will see more money from the state this year. The Department of Public Instruction released the general state aid figures yesterday. Two-thirds of schools will get more money, while about a third will get less. In all, Wisconsin is sending just over five-and-a-half billion-dollars to local schools.
A crew from Minnesota is continuing to help restore power in the aftermath of hurricanes Helene and Milton. Linemen from Dakota County arrived in the Tampa area last week. Kyle Ryman tells KARE-TV the team has been working 16-hour days to help get the lights back on to hundreds of thousands of people who remain in the dark. He says the Minnesotans are feeling the love from Floridians, who bring them meals in the field and even buy them dinner at area restaurants.
The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin is asking both state and federal investigators to look into texts that warn young voters about voting in the wrong state. The League joined the group Free Speech for People yesterday in asking the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and Wisconsin's attorney general to investigate. The text warns voters that voting in a state where they are not eligible is a crime, and could result in a ten-thousand-dollar fine and up to three-and-a-half years in prison. The League said that warning may intimidate some young voters here in Wisconsin. No one is saying who sent the text, or how they got the list of young voters here in Wisconsin.
Voters in Wisconsin will finally be able to see the candidates running for U.S. Senate on the same stage at the same time. The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association's debate is set for this Friday. It will be the first and only time that Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde will answer questions together. The debate will be Friday night in Madison, but it will be broadcast across the state. The latest Marquette Law School Poll gave Baldwin a seven-point lead in the race, but Baldwin later said her own internal polling shows the race much closer than that.
Two winning Mega Millions tickets worth thirty-thousand dollars each come from the same Kwik Trip location in Lake Geneva. Both of the tickets sold at the gas station on South Wells Street match four of the five winning numbers and the Mega Ball number. It's still unknown whether one person bought both tickets or if there are two winners, since the tickets haven't been validated at the Lottery Office. The same gas station also saw two winning scratch tickets worth 75-thousand and 30-thousand dollars last year, along with a 32-thousand Badger Five jackpot.
As growers for Pure Prairie Poultry contine to deal with being abandoned by the company, there are calls for changes to USDA policies. While the states of Iowa and Minnesota had some type of plan in place to feed or euthanize the birds, Wisconsin and even USDA did not. Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin say USDA may not have the authority to take over the flocks when a company walks away, and maybe that should be changed. Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar, a member of the Senate Ag Committe says there is an opportunity to add some type of safety net for poultry producers in the farm bill. In 2022, Pure Prairie Poultry received a $6.9 million grant and a $39 million dollar guaranteed loan to re-open a plant in Charles City Iowa. Klobuchar said a Senate Investigation into what happened to the money needs to be done. Because no feed was available and no help came from the state of Wisconsin or anywhere else, the affected farmers were forced to try and sell over 160,000 chickens to the general public for $1 each before the birds starved to death.
The trial for a Greenfield man accused of killing his seven-week-old daughter almost 35 years ago is underway. Opening statements in Ronald Schroeder's trial started this morning. Prosecutors say the 55-year-old man killed his daughter, Catherine, in 1991. Prosecutors say the events from the night she died suggest a pattern of abuse toward several woman and other infants by Schroeder. The Milwaukee County Medical Examiner reviewed Catherine's autopsy in 2021 and ruled her death a homicide. Schroeder, her father, was charged two months later. His trial is scheduled to run into next week.
The first headliner for Summerfest 2025 is announced. Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year Lainey Wilson will play the American Family Insurance Amphitheater on Thursday, June 26th. Tickets for the show go on sale Friday morning. The 2025 edition of the annual music festival will happen Thursday thru Saturday on the last two weekends of June and the first weekend of July along Milwaukee’s lakefront.
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