It's going to be cold and clear in western Wisconsin for the next couple of days. The National Weather Service says the holiday weekend will see temperatures in the 20s in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. There's no snow in the forecast. The Weather Service says it will stay cold in western Wisconsin through at least mid-week next week.
A unique weather phenomenon caused a band of snow in Western Wisconsin yesterday. According to the national weather services, the snow originated from a factory near Menomonie when the particles being emitted from the factory were just the right thing for super cooled liquid water droplets in the clouds to grab onto and create snow. The snow caused numerous accidents in Western Wisconsin including an accident at I-94 and Hwy 37 that caused I-94 westbound to be closed for a time yesterday.
Marshfield Clinic's newest doctor may not have the med school chops of some of her colleagues, but she's among the most popular in the entire hospital. The clinic says Dolly the dog doctor is making the rounds in Marshfield. She's not a therapy dog, instead, the hospital says she's there to help in any way she can. Mostly that's by being cute and friendly toward visitors. The hospital says Dolly will put in a 40 hour week once she gets up to speed at her new job.
An audit in Eau Claire County shows all votes are accurately counted. The post-election audit report says voting equipment used in the City of Eau Claire and the Towns of Washington and Seymour were working properly for the general election. More than 55-hundred hand-counted ballots in the county were found to have zero discrepancies.
A new health clinic is coming to Mondovi. Emplify Health Clinic will hold a ribbon-cutting for the new clinic on December 11 at 12:15. Emplify, the merger between Gunderson and Bellin Health Systems, purchased the old Prevea Clinic earlier this year after Prevea closed. The ribbon-cutting will be followed by tours of the new facility.
A man is dead after he was struck by a car while pulling a deer carcass off the road. The Dakota County Sheriff's Office says it happened on County Road 46 in Martin Township Wednesday morning. The 69-year-old victim had reportedly struck and killed the deer and was pulling the animal to the shoulder when he was hit by a passing vehicle. No names have been released.
The U.S. Supreme Court could take-up Eau Claire's trans policy case. The court is considering a hearing on the challenge to Eau Claire Area Schools' policy on gender. That policy allows teachers and school administrators to hide gender changes from parents. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty sued over the policy, but their lawsuit was dismissed because WILLs clients didn't have kids in Eau Claire Schools. Eau Claire Area School leaders have defended the policy in the past as something that helps kids. No one is guessing when the high court may decide on the case.
There are federal charges for the man who flight attendants say tried to get off a Milwaukee to Dallas flight earlier this month. Prosecutors filed the charges against Abdul-al-Jabbar Oloruntoba Olaiya this week. They say he ran at a flight attendant on the flight which took off from Milwaukee's Mitchell Airport back on November 19th. He's accused of saying that he was the captain of the fight, and that he needed to get off the plane immediately. Other passengers had to hold Olaiya down til he could be secured with duct tape. No one on the flight was injured, and prosecutors say the plane was able to land safely in Dallas.
Investigators say a bus driver was to blame for driving into the front of a home in Western Wisconsin. A school bus leaving the depot in Holmen early Tuesday morning crashed into the front of a home. The State Patrol says the bus was in working condition, and that the 76-year-old driver was at fault. One person inside the home was injured. The driver will receive citations but does not face charges.
A plea deal has been reached with the Hixton man accused of attempted homicide. Anthony Sylvester, 33, was charged last October with that crime and a few other charges, like burglary and stalking after breaking into his girlfriends home. Sylvester entered into a plea deal in Jackson County Court and was found guilty of first degree reckless injury. He will be sentenced in February.
If you’re heading out this weekend looking for a Christmas tree, consider heading to Wisconsin’s Northwoods. Division of Forestry Property Manager Beth Feind says make sure you get a permit first. A full list of what forests you can cut down trees in can be found on the DNR’s website.
Minnesotans looking for something to do other than shopping can take advantage of Friday's Free Park Day. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources schedules four free park days each year to encourage people to get outside and enjoy nature. Admission to all state parks is free, though fees will still apply for activities like camping and boat rentals. Tomorrow's free park day is the last one of 2024.
Add Wisconsin's Libertarian Party to the list of people asking for their money back. The Libertarians yesterday fired off a letter to lawmakers asking them to return the state's four billion-dollar budget surplus to the taxpayers. The party says lawmakers need to stop 'robbing the taxpayers.' Republican lawmakers at the Wisconsin Capitol have said for years that they want to return the surplus to taxpayers, but Democrats and Governor Evers say they'd rather spend it.
No one will be getting a ticket after the THC oil used at Famous Yeti's in Stoughton made 85 people sick. Public Health Madison & Dane County released its final report into the case yesterday. It shows that 85 people, from babies to elderly folks, got sick after they ate food from Famous Yeti's back in October. That included at least one pregnant woman. PHMDC says someone used delta-9 oil in Famous Yeti's kitchen, and it contaminated people's food. The health department, however, said delta-9 is legal, and there are no laws that ban it from being used in a kitchen. As a result, PHMDC said no one will be given a ticket, and no one will be arrested.
Conditions have reportedly improved at Wisconsin's youth prisons. The Wisconsin Department of Corrections says the federal monitor at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake Schools noted an improvement in staff and resident attitudes as well as fewer safety concerns following the death of a counselor earlier this year. The state was forced to look at staffing issues and how residents were being treated after the death of Corey Proulx. Two teens are charged in his death. The monitor found that despite the incident, the two facilities saw overall improvement this past quarter with fewer complaints about safety from both staff and residents.
Authorities in Olmsted County are still hoping to resolve a 25-year-old murder case involving two headless bodies. The case began on November 26th, 1999, when the decapitated bodies of a woman and child were found in a ditch on the outskirts of Rochester. Investigators would later connect the deaths to Iqbal Ahmed, who flew to Bangladesh shortly after the bodies were found. The woman was identified as Ahmed's wife, and the child was identified as his nephew. The Olmsted County Attorney's Office says Ahmed was jailed for abduction and murder in Bangladesh in 2005, but investigators have been unable to confirm that he is still behind bars. The case will be reviewed again in five years.
New leadership for the Wisconsin Hospital Association Current President and CEO Eric Borgerding is set to retire next year and be replaced by the WHA's Senior Vice President of Government Relations Kyle O'Brien. Borgerding has worked at WHA for 23 years, the last 10 as CEO, will retire on June 30th. O'Brien will be the organization's 7th leader in its 104-year history. WHA says Borgerding worked to increase the number of doctors and nurses in the state while also overhauling Wisconsin's hospital regulations for a more efficient and cost-effective operation. O'Brien has been with WHA for 12 years.
Thanksgiving dinner may cost you less this year. The annual survey from the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation says the holiday feast should cost $57.61 to serve ten people. That’s a two percent drop in prices compared to last year. Some of the items on the bureau’s list include dinner rolls, a relish tray, fresh cranberries, sweet potatoes, stuffing mix, and a 16-pound turkey, which is priced out at just over $25. The full list can be found at the bureau’s website, “W-F-B-F dot com.”
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