A Lake City man is dead after a tire explosion. According to the Wabasha County Sheriff’s Department, deputies and emergency responders were sent to a rural Lake City address on a call of a tire exploding while being worked on. 34Yr old Joshua Moeching Jr was pronounced dead at the scene, while his father Joshua Moeching SR was transported to St. Mary’s with injuries to his face.
The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion and possible action on the contract with the Arkansaw Sanitary District, possible action on having Cedar Corp update cemetery data and mapping, and reports from the mayor and department heads. Tonight's meeting begins at 6pm at Durand City Hall and will be live-streamed on the WRDN Website.
The City of Mondovi received an update on its K-9 program. The program had been on hold after the last K-9 was euthanized due to a medical condition. K-9 Officer Sundeen approached the city about having his German Shepard Chewy put into the K-9 program. Mondovi Mayor Brady Weiss said the city decided to look into adding Chewy to the department. Officer Sundeen is looking to hold a fundraiser for some newer equipment for Chewy in the near future.
Motorists violating traffic laws this week may have to worry about the long arm of the law coming at them from above. Wisconsin State Patrol says they will be taking to the skies this week to monitor roadways for traffic violations. The Patrol's Air Support Unit will be flying high above Walworth County today, Brown County and Eau Claire County tomorrow and Douglas County on Friday.
A court date is being set for a lawsuit filed by former UW-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow against the university. Gow claims his termination last year was a violation of his First Amendment rights. Gow was fired after it came to light that he and his wife had been creating porn videos and posting them online. He says that posting the videos was a form of free speech and self-expression. The trial date has been set for June 22nd of next year.
Prison is being ordered for a man convicted of setting of wildfires in Jackson County. Those fires burned on county and private lands back in 2023. Defendant Daniel Johnson previously pleaded guilty to charges of intentionally setting fire to another's land. Johnson was ordered yesterday to serve four-and-a-half years behind bars and also to write letters of apologies the owners of the land where the fires were started in addition to Wisconsin DNR and the Black River Falls Fire Department.
Charges are being filed against a driver pulled over this past weekend in Holmen. Twenty-eight-year-old Mayking Murillo-Palacios was stopped Saturday, and police are reporting drugs were found in his vehicle during a search. They say they found an estimated 170 grams of suspected cocaine in the vehicle. The suspect -- who was already free on ten separate bonds -- is now facing a charge of possession with the intent to deliver cocaine, along with five felony counts of bail jumping and five misdemeanor counts of bail jumping.
Heavy rain is expected over the next few days. The National Weather Service says a stalled frontal system will produce showers and thunderstorms today and tomorrow. Most locations will see 1-3 inches, with some areas receiving 4 inches of rain. The weather service says the heavy rain could also produce localized flooding. Warmer weather and another chance of rain is expected for the weekend.
State lawmakers pass a bill that would allow delivery and rideshare drivers to receive benefits. The bill from Republicans, Senator Julian Bradley and Representative Alex Dallman, passed along party lines in the Assembly and Senate. The authors say if signed into law it would make Wisconsin the first state in the nation to allow those drivers to receive benefits like retirement accounts, health insurance and occupational accident insurance. Some Democrats have opposed the legislation, calling it "anti-worker.” The bill is now ready for Democratic Governor Tony Evers consideration, and it’s unclear whether he'll sign it into law.
The Senate Majority Leader says lawmakers in his chamber will stay in the nation's capitol until they pass President Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill." On Monday in a Fox News op-ed, John Thune said he's confident the Senate will get the bill across the finish line. It comes as Republican holdouts remain opposed to the bill as the self-imposed July 4th deadline approaches. Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson has said the bill will add trillions to national deficits, while the White House said it's imperative to pass the legislation for the American people.
A win for environmentalists and the Evers administration in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In a 5-2 decision released Monday, the court affirmed the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ authority to enforce reporting and clean up for contaminants such as PFAS. The court upheld the state Spills Law, which regulates parties responsible for discharging harmful substances and requires discharges to be reported and the environment to be restored to minimize harmful effects. Conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn joined the court’s liberals in overturning lower court decisions supporting a challenge to DNR authority by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce. In a statement, Evers called the decision a historic victory for the people of Wisconsin and his administration’s fight against PFAS and other harmful contaminants.
Multiple new straw purchases of firearms are being linked back to Fleet Farm locations in Minnesota. Federal prosecutors say William Burton bought almost ten of the firearms from Fleet Farm, which is being sued by the State of Minnesota for not doing enough to stop straw purchasing from its stores. Burton is charged with making dozens of straw purchases, including several firearms that turned up at crime scenes. The company has denied doing anything wrong.
Thousands of nurses in Minnesota are getting closer to a strike. Members of the Minnesota Nurses Association voted to authorize a walkout. The vote results mean the union would have to give a 10-day notice to the 13 hospitals that the strike would affect before walking off the job. MNA officials say their grievance is not about a staffing issue but rather a staffing crisis throughout the region.
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