The Durand City Council has approved the pool rates for the upcoming pool season. Because of a donation, the daily rate will be $2 a day. Instead of a family pass, residents and non residents will be allowed to purchase 4 punch cards that have 12 punches each for $75. One punch on the card will be need for daily admission to the pool. Swimming lessons will be $25 for residents of the Durand-Arkansaw School District and $50 for those outside of the district. The new Tarrant Park Pool is expected to open in June.
A Fountain City man accused of hiding a corpse and animal mistreatment is pleading guilty due to mental illness. According to online court records, an attorney for Arthur McMullen entered a not guilty plea due to the reason of mental disease or default plea. The 70-year-old is being charged with hiding a corpse, mistreatment of animals, obstructing an officer and more. According to a criminal complaint, officers found a dead woman in his home, who he said believed to be dead for about six weeks and he didn't want to deal with the situation yet. The complaint also says officers removed several animals that were being fed scraps from the home. Investigators also found two animal carcasses or skeletal remains in the home. A status conference is scheduled for February 5th.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is confirming its first positive case for chronic wasting disease in a wild deer in Chippewa County. According to a press release from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, it was a one-year-old deer harvested by a hunter within ten miles of the Barron and Dunn County borders. The detection will renew several bans like the three-year baiting and feeding ban already in place for Chippewa County, a two year baiting and feeding ban already in place for Barron County. Dunn County already has a 3yr baiting and feeding ban in place. A public meeting is scheduled for February 6th and will be held by the DNR and Chippewa County Deer Advisory Council.
The case against a man that police say accidentally shot himself in downtown Eau Claire is being settled. On Wednesday, Dontrey Bundy pleaded guilty to being an out-of-state felon in possession of a firearm. According to witnesses, the 31-year-old was outside of a bar showing people his gun when he accidentally shot himself in the arm. No one else was hurt. Bundy was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered not to possess any gun, drink alcohol, or enter any bars.
The man accused of killing his girlfriend and then dumping her body in Chippewa County has reached a deal with prosecutors. 27Yr old Jose Dominguez-Garcia was accused of killing 26yr old Rosaly Rodriquz in 2020 at their home Reedsburg, putting her body in a suitcase and dumping it at an abandoned farmhouse on Hwy T in Chippewa County. Dominguez-Garcia pleaded no contest to a reduced charge of first-degree reckless homicide and charges of intentional homicide and hiding a corpse will be dismissed. He is to be sentenced in May.
The H5N1 Bird Flu is leading to higher egg prices across Wisconsin. Egg supplies are running shorter as we move further into winter, contributing to the rising costs. Nancy Kellner, an organic egg producer in Brown County, explains that her production has been behind because she was unable to get a new flock of one-thousand hens on time last fall due to Avian flu. Kellner explains that older birds at farms like hers do not produce as many eggs, particularly during the winter, meaning hers and other operations are still below their normal output.
Wisconsin Consumer Protection is tracking a worrisome new scam targeting families caring for elderly relatives. Director Michelle Reinen says the crooks show up at your door, offering to help with "hospice" care for your elderly relative. The crooks will claim that they'll set up consumers with free in-home services like free cooking, cleaning and home health care. What the criminals are actually after is Medicare and Medicaid payments and accounts. Reinen says hospice isn't home care, it's a special end of life care and reminds people that Medicare will never come to your door to offer services.
Minnesota
lawmakers are preparing for their upcoming session with a discussion
about sports betting. Lawmakers held a hearing in St. Paul yesterday
to lay the groundwork for another attempt to legalize the activity.
Supporters have been trying to pass a bill for several years but have
failed to persuade enough of their colleagues. Some lawmakers want
to keep mobile sports betting out of this year's bill, saying it
could be a gateway to an increase in gambling addiction. The next
session of the legislature is scheduled to begin next week.
A suspected Minnesota bank robber is in custody in Wisconsin. Police in Monroe County arrested 51-year-old Cory M. Billstrom on January 7th in the village of Wilton. He's wanted in connection to a robbery in Bloomington earlier the same day. Now, Billstrom is awaiting extradition back to Minnesota to face charges.
As expected, the state Senate’s first floor session on Wednesday approved a measure that would protect Wisconsin’s Voter ID law through an amendment to the state Constitution. Racine Republican Van Wanggaard authored the language . Senators voted along party lines to approve the resolution which will go before voters in April following expected passage in the Assembly next week. Democrats argued the chamber should have taken up more pressing issues. This is the measure’s second pass through the Legislature, which is required for any amendment to the constitution.
Wisconsin residents shouldn’t expect to initiate changes to the state constitution. Republican lawmakers like constitutional amendments - so long as they’re the ones drafting them. Last November, voters statewide approved a pair of elections related amendments, and they will likely have a Voter ID amendment on the ballot in April. Governor Tony Evers plans to include language in his state budget to allow citizens to file petitions to the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission to hold statewide votes on amendments and laws. Republican leaders in the Legislature are already signaling that idea is a non-starter with them.
The manhunt for a suspect in a Juneau County triple homicide has expanded. The FBI and the U.S. Marshal Service have joined local agencies in the search from 47-year-old Virgil Thew. Prosecutors have charged Thew for the shooting deaths of his girlfriend, 33-year-old Elizabeth Kolba, his 12-year-old stepdaughter and the girl's 13-year-old friend. Thew was last seen January 1st on a trail cam just outside of New Lisbon. New Lisbon police say Thew should be considered armed and dangerous and ask people to call 911 if they see him.
An industry group is pursuing legal action against a new Minnesota law banning the sale and distribution of cookware containing PFAs. Officials with the Cooking Sustainability Alliance say the group filed its complaint against Katrina Kessler, commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, claiming that the law is unconstitutional. The suit claims the law discriminates against out-of-state commerce and interferes with interstate commerce. It also alleges the law violates the Commerce Clause in the Constitution.
A Fox Valley teacher will soon become a U.S. diplomat. Eric Thiede has spent 25 years teaching social studies at Kaukauna and Neenah high schools. After moving through a thorough two-year application process, Thiede learned last fall that he was selected to join the U.S. State Department as a diplomat. His new responsibilities will include conducting visa interviews, assisting Americans overseas, and engaging in public diplomacy. Thiede will begin several weeks of training next week and learn the location of his first overseas assignment next month.
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