Two people were injured in a motorcycle vs deer accident in Union Township on Saturday. According to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, 43yr old Evan Mercer of Arkansaw was traveling northbound on Hwy S when he struck a deer. Mercer was med flighted to Regions Hospital, while passenger 36yr old Beth Wojcik of Arkansaw was taken by personal vehicle to the hospital.
In the wake of the school shooting in Minneapolis yesterday, Durand Police will have extra patrols around schools. During last nights council meeting, Durand Police Chief Stan Ridgeway told the council he had met with administrators at Assumption School to review safety procedures and ordered the extra patrols around area schools. He reiterated there is no threat to the public. Two children, ages eight and ten, are dead and 17 others are wounded after a Catholic school shooting in Minneapolis. Fourteen of the wounded are children, three adults, and all of them are expected to survive. Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara identified the shooter as 23-year-old Robin Westman, who shot through the church stained-glass windows of the Annunciation Church before dying from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. O'Hara says they have discovered a manifesto left behind by Westman. The FBI is investigating the shooting as "act of domestic terrorism" and a "hate crime targeting Catholics"
A defendant charged in the killing of ten-year-old Lily Peters is being granted a change of venue for his upcoming trial. Investigators say that Peters was killed in Chippewa Falls on April 24th of 2022 with her body found the next day. Seventeen-year-old defendant Carson Peters-Berger was just 14 when prosecutors say he took the young girl's life. A defense motion for a change of venue was granted yesterday. The court has not decided if the trial itself will be moved to another geographic location or if outside jurors will be brought in to hear the case.
Eau Claire Police report that -- twice this week -- they stopped elderly people from losing thousands of dollars to bitcoin scammers. Police stopped one individual on Monday just as they were about to lose ten thousand dollars to a telephone scammer and -- on Tuesday -- they caught up with another victim and were able to help them two recover about nine-thousand dollars of the twelve-thousand that they had sent through. Police say they will be posting messages at area bitcoin machines this week to warn folks of possible scams.
A man charged in connection with a fatal stabbing in Eau Claire County has been found competent to stand trial. That decision came yesterday regarding defendant Anthony Jackson who is charged with intentional homicide following a December 2014 stabbing at the Do Dodge Inn. That incident resulted in the death of 31-year-old Alex Graff. Jackson's next court appearance is scheduled for September.
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Federal Grand Jury has indited 41-year-old
Jason Bloedow of Eau Claire, with distributing methamphetamine,
possessing methamphetamine intended for distribution and maintaining
a drug involved premises. The indictment alleges that Bloedow sold
methamphetamine on March 19 and April 15, 2025, the second buy
involving 50 grams or more. The indictment also alleges that Bloedow
possessed 500 grams or more of methamphetamine intended for
distribution on April 25, 2025 and used his residence as a drug
involved premises. If convicted, Bloedow faces a maximum of life in
prison.
The
clean-up continues after a driver crashed Wednesday morning into a
Flying J Travel Center in Jackson County. Officers with the Jackson
County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene in Black River Falls a
little after 3 a.m. and found a vehicle inside the building. No
injuries were reported. The vehicle's driver -- 38-year-old Jordan
Gajewski of Edgar -- is facing an OWI charge.
It will likely be another poor wild rice harvest in Wisconsin. Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission wild rice coordinator Kathy Smith says a combination of events contributed to the low yield on Wisconsin lakes. Everything from storms to climate change, to too many swans eating the growing rice all add up to an 18% decrease in rice growing across northern Wisconsin. There have been ongoing efforts by both the Department of Natural Resources and Great Lakes tribes to restore rice habitats over the past decade. Wild rice, also called manoomin by the Ojibwe, is a native food source unique to the Upper Midwest.
A man accused of faking his own death on a Wisconsin lake last year was sentenced Tuesday. Ryan Borgwardt was sentenced to pay $30,000 restitution and spend 89 days in the Green Lake County Jail. A judge said the jail sentence was the same number of days Borgwardt "allowed his deception to continue," after faking his kayaking death on Big Green Lake and deserting his family for a woman in the eastern European nation of Georgia. Borgwardt and his wife divorced earlier this year. He made a brief apology in court Tuesday.
A federal judge is allowing Hannah Dugan's case to go to trial. Dugan's case was set to go to trial in July but the judge pushed it back to consider her motion to dismiss. Judge Lynn Adelman sided with the federal government in Tuesday's hearing, which means the case will go to trial. Dugan is accused of helping Eduardo Flores-Ruiz avoid federal agents looking to arrest him. She has been suspended from her position as judge on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court while she faces federal charges.
A Boy Scout troop from Plymouth is back in Wisconsin after being stranded in the Virgin Islands. The troop was visiting St. Thomas to learn about sailing but the effects of Hurricane Erin grounded all flights off the islands. Scout leader Joshua Kilian told NBC 26 that families put together a fundraising campaign to cover unexpected costs for the troop. He says the group faced high costs when it came to getting food and finding a way off the islands. The troop made it back to Wisconsin over the weekend just in time for school to start.
UW Health is launching a first of its kind apprenticeship program. The surgical technology apprenticeship offers all the coursework leading to an associate degree and makes it easier for someone to become a surgical technologist. Surgical techs prepare the operating room before surgery and assist a surgeon in caring for tools used during surgery. UW Health says the program, the first of its kind in the country, helps address the healthcare workforce shortage, meet patient needs and reduce barriers to beginning a career as a surgical tech. Tuition, books, and supplies for the first two years of the program will be covered by a grant that has been secured by the Workforce Development Board of South Central Wisconsin.
Charges against a Milwaukee man accused of throwing a toddler off a balcony are dismissed. Jaimann Eiland was accused of tossing his step-granddaughter from a second-story balcony of a home on Milwaukee’s northwest side in March while he was arguing with the child’s mother. Fox 6 Milwaukee reports a felony child abuse charge was dismissed this week, with prosecutors saying it could not be proven. Eiland’s attorney said the accusations ruined his client’s reputation and were not credible. Eiland did plead guilty to misdemeanor counts of battery and disorderly conduct in connection to an alleged assault of the child’s mother. He’ll serve no jail time outside of time already served.
A strong turnout for a Milwaukee-based diner chain’s burger giveaway. Following the Milwaukee Brewers 12 game winning streak earlier this month, George Webb restaurants gave away free hamburgers to all comers during a four-hour window last Wednesday, totaling between 80-thousand and 90-thousand burgers. Webb also awarded vouchers for free burgers to those who couldn’t attend the Wednesday giveaway. If all those vouchers are redeemed by this Friday, Webb estimates the total number of burgers at nearly 200,000, approaching the totals from the last “12-in-a-row” promotion in 2018.
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