A deer hunter from Louisiana had to be rescued from the Tiffany Wildlife Area yesterday. According to the Buffalo County Sheriff's Department, the 32yr old male had hurt his leg while climbing a tree and was unable to walk and needed medical assistance. Rescue crews worked two hours to find the injured man and he was transported to Mayo Clinic in Eau Claire.
Investigators in Dunn County say they got their break in a cold case murder last year when a relative of the suspect uploaded their DNA to the internet. The investigation into the 1974 murder of Mary Schlais sat idle for years until a DNA match was found at an inline genealogy site. Investigators yesterday said that DNA was uploaded last year, and was likely from a first cousin. The DNA match led detectives to Jon Keith Miller from Minnesota. Dunn County is now pushing ahead with murder charges. They say without the DNA match, the case may have gone unsolved forever.
The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include an update on the Hwy 10 Project, replacement of the downtown siren and discussion on uses for the old library building. Tonight's meeting begins at 5:30 at the Marten Center in Mondovi.
The Dunn County Board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a public hearing on the proposed 2025 budget, discussion and possible action on the budget and 2025 tax leavy and reports from department heads. Tonight's meeting begins at 7pm in the board room at the Dunn County Government Center.
It's probation for an Eau Claire man who shot at his neighbors with a crossbow. A judge yesterday ordered Robert Willi to get a mental health evaluation, stay sober, and spend the next five years on probation. Police arrested Willi back in March after his neighbors say he fired a crossbow at them while they walked by his house. They say Willi has made threats about shooting them before. Willi pleaded no contest in the case yesterday, and will not spend any time in jail.
A teen whose kayak overturned in northwestern Wisconsin is now dead. The Barron County Sheriff's Department says deputies responded to Kirby Lake on Saturday after multiple people called 9-1-1, reporting they heard others screaming for help. Deputies say two people were in the water, and a third went underwater and hadn't come back up. The 17-year-old was found using sonar technology, and divers were sent to recover him. The boy was sent to a Minnesota hospital, where he later died. The case is still under investigation. Ten Wisconsin agencies responded to the scene.
The National Weather Service is reporting a weather radio outage in the Rochester area. The NWS branch in La Crosse, Wisconsin reported the outage on Facebook over the weekend. The outage was caused by a communication issue and is being worked on by technicians. The weather service recommends using radio frequencies serving Mankato, Red Wing, Winona or other nearby communities until the issue is fixed.
Wisconsin's Supreme Court looks ready to strike down the state's 1849 abortion law. The court yesterday heard arguments in the case that challenges whether the law still applies. Wisconsin's attorney general saw the law was basically overridden when Wisconsin lawmakers passed more recent abortion regulations. The lawyer for Sheboygan County's D.A., however, said that post-Roe the law is still the law. Liberal Justice Jill Karofsky said keeping the 1849 law would mean 'signing the death warrants' of women and children in the state. The lawyers for Sheboygan County's D.A. said the court needs to decide about the law that's on the books, not the law they'd like to see.
A Fillmore County judge is considering motions to dismiss some of the charges filed against a woman accused of causing a deadly buggy crash last year. Attorneys for Samantha Jo Petersen have asked the judge to dismiss 18 of the 21 charges filed against her after the crash killed two children and injured two others. Prosecutors countered those arguments in documents filed last week, asking the judge to allow evidence such as blood tests and recorded conversations between Samantha and Sarah Petersen. Samantha Petersen is accused of criminal vehicular homicide, driving while impaired and several other charges. She's also been accused of trying to switch places with her sister to avoid being arrested.
An out-going Republican lawmaker is blasting Wisconsin's utility regulators for once again giving some of the state's utilities a rate increase. Senator Rob Cowles on Friday accused the Wisconsin Public Service Commission of giving We Energies and WPS 'unchecked, unaccountable, and unnecessary rate hikes.' Last week, the Commission approved increases that will add just under 10 dollars a-month to We Energies bills, and will add just over seven dollars per-month for WPS customers next year. There will also be increases in 2026 as well. Cowles said Commissioners are disconnected from reality, and are hurting the hardworking families of Wisconsin.
A record number of school referendums passed last week. A report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum shows 3 point 4 billion dollars in school tax increases were approved by voters last Tuesday. The largest among them were a pair of measures in Madison that increased spending by 600 million dollars over the next 21 years. That will go towards operating expenses as well as renovations at elementary and middle schools. Other major increases were approved in Kaukauna, Green Bay, and Janesville.
A Chicago man is charged in connection with a gift card scam ring around Wisconsin. Surveillance footage from a Walgreens in Grafton showed 52-year-old Guangguo Zhu allegedly placing gift cards onto one of the racks of the store Thursday and then leaving. Grafton Police say Zhu was later pulled over as he left a Walgreens in nearby Cedarburg, and located two duffle bags inside the vehicle that contained over 1800 gift cards. Detectives say Zhu’s vehicle has been seen all over Wisconsin this past month. He’s been charged with three counts of forgery, and three counts of identity theft.
A 65-year-old homicide case in Ozaukee County has been solved. The skeletal remains of 7-year-old Markku Julita were found in a Mequon culvert in October of 1959 while the boy was the subject of a missing child investigation in Houghton, Michigan. By 1966, Markku’s adoptive parents admitted to beating their son to death and disposing of his body in Mequon while relocating from Houghton to Chicago. Charges were dismissed after prosecutors couldn’t connect Markku’s skeleton with his parents. They died in 1988. In September, DNA testing matched Markku’s skeleton with several members of his original birth family. His remains will be buried Friday in Port Washington.
University of Wisconsin's assistant football coach is expected to resign after an OWI arrest. Head coach Luke Fickell says the university is taking Jack Del Rio's arrest seriously and doesn't want any distractions during the rest of the football season. Assistant coach and former NFL head coach Del Rio is accused of driving into and breaking a fence before crashing into a Madison yard while drunk early Friday morning. He joined the Badger football team before the 2024 season began.
An unusual shopper at a grocery store in Madison. Madison police say a 10 point buck entered the HyVee store on the east side through open pharmacy doors last Wednesday morning. The buck ran through the store until staff corralled him in the cooler area. Officers and animal control employees were able to barricade parts of the storage area in the back of the store and usher the buck out one of the doors. Madison police say the suspect is free and back out in the wild!
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