One man is in custody after a manhunt in Wabasha County yesterday. According to the Wabasha and Olmsead County Sheriff’s Departments, the incident began yesterday morning after deputies responded to a suspicious vehicle with a man slumped over the steering wheel near Elgin. When deputies arrived, the man fled and ended up hitting another car in Wabasha County on County Road 25. The man then fled the scene, broke into a nearby building and fled into a cornfield. He was later arrested. According to the Minnesota State Patrol, the suspect was identified as Drew Douglas Wiskow Davis.
The City of Menomonie has approved annexing over 300 acres of land between 605th and 690th Avenue in the Town of Red Cedar for a possible new data center. Balloonist LLC filed the request for the annexation and rezoning. The city still has to approve the final plans for the proposed data center and if approved, construction could begin as early as 2027.
The Buffalo County Highway Department will begin construction on Hwy BB today. The project will be from Hwy 10 south to the Naples Town Hall and will include culvert replacement, widening and milling operations. Hwy BB will remain open to traffic, but motorists should expect delays.
The Tarrant Park Pool will be closed for a few days this month. The City of Durand announced the pool will be closed this Friday from 6-9pm and all day on Saturday. The pool will also be closed from 6-9pm on August 21st and 22nd. The final day of the pool being open for the season is scheduled to be August 24.
One person was hospitalized following an apartment fire. The Eau Claire Fire Department says a tenant found smoke and fire in her kitchen when they arrived. Crews found heavy smoke coming from a third floor apartment and initiated an evacuation. One cat was found unharmed and another person living there was treated at the scene before being transported to the hospital. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The apartment fire broke out at a property on South Barstow Street and caused an estimated 40 thousand dollars in damage.
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date is being set for groundbreaking ceremonies on a new hospital in
Chippewa Falls. Aspirus Chippewa Falls Hospital is to be developed
across the street from Fire Station #1 on Chippewa Crossing Boulevard
and will be a 35-thousand-square-foot facility with an emergency
department and clinic. The groundbreaking ceremony is set for August
14th.
Governor Tony Evers was in western Wisconsin on Tuesday talking about healthcare. The governor visited the Chippewa Valley Free Clinic where he talked discussed his concerns about the impacts the recently passed One Big Beautiful Bill will have on Badger State residents. The governor says that an estimated 270-thousand people living in Wisconsin stand to lose their health care coverage.
Authorities are reporting the passing of a woman who was recently involved in a St. Croix County collision. The St. Croix County Sheriff's Office says a pickup truck and a semi hit head-on July 25th on County Trunk Highway G in Erin Prairie. According to the report, the vehicles hit when the driver of the pickup truck went left of center and into the path of the semi. The pickup truck's driver, 42-year-old Ashlie Rosen, died on Friday. The driver of the semi survived the crash with non life-threatening injuries.
Celebrating one year of the state's Home Energy Rebate programs. Wisconsin received $149 million under the Biden era Inflation Reduction Act for the Home Efficiency Rebate and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebate Programs. The programs are administered by the state Public Service Commission. Governor Tony Evers says more than $2 million in rebates have been distributed, helping Wisconsin families make home upgrades and keep more money in their pockets. Just under $75 million went to the HEAR program providing discounts for installing energy efficient appliances. Another $75 million went towards the HOMES program for whole-home efficiency improvements.
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A Wisconsin man was sentenced to 29 months in prison for possessing precursors to chemical weapons. James Morgan entered a guilty plea earlier this year after the FBI executed a search warrant on his storage unit and found the chemicals. His messages described a plan to take out approximately 20 government agents using large amounts of chlorine. Morgan was a chemistry student at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and described himself as a weapon designer.
Another batch of inactive Wisconsin voters have been pulled from the voting rolls. The Wisconsin Elections Commission says 192-thousand voters were removed as part of an ongoing maintenance of the rolls. Administrator Meagan Wolfe says anyone who hasn't voted in four years will be removed to ensure that the list of voters is accurate in each voting district. Wisconsin has at-the-polls registration, so if your name has been pulled from the list, and you've forgotten to register, you can still cast a ballot on election day.
Some Wisconsin members of Congress want to make sure airlines continue to have two pilots in the cockpit. In separate letters to Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, 45 U.S. Senators and more than 150 House members are urging him to oppose efforts to examine and test out proposals for having a single pilot operate commercial passenger flights. Current U.S. policy dictates no airline can operate an airplane “with less than the minimum flight crew,” of “two pilots,” and the lawmakers said that ought to remain the standard. Wisconsin House Republican Tony Wied, House Democrats Gwenn Moore and Mark Pocan, and Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin all signed the letters. Duffy, a former Wisconsin congressman, has not commented on the issue since being appointed secretary.
Harley-Davidson has a new leader. The Milwaukee based motorcycle maker announced Monday that Artie Starrs will be its next president and chief executive officer. Starrs previously served as CEO of Topgolf Callaway Brands. Prior to that, he held leadership roles with Pizza Hut. Starrs will begin his new duties in October succeeding Jochen Zeitz (YO-ken ZITES), who is retiring. Harley-Davidson is struggling to attract young customers amid declining demand for its large motorcycles.
Milwaukee will host another convention of Republicans. This time, it’s the Young Republican National Convention in August of 2027. The gathering put together by the Young Republican National Federation is expected to draw 1,200 attendees and generate about $1 million in economic activity for the region. Last summer, Milwaukee hosted the 2024 Republican National Convention, which brought in over $300 million of business impact. Wisconsin has been a key state in deciding the most recent presidential elections.
A bear with a plastic jar stuck on its head was freed over the weekend in northwestern Wisconsin. According to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the 70-pound, 2-year-old sow was first spotted with the jar on her head on July 26, and she traveled more than 50 miles for about a week while in that predicament. She was spotted in Sawyer, Bayfield and Douglas counties. After over a week of monitoring and trapping efforts, reports of the bear over the weekend indicated she was likely returning to the area where first spotted. On Sunday near Cable in Sawyer County, a trained wildlife professional was able to safely dart the bear with an immobilization drug so the jar could be removed. The sow did not have any injuries and has been relocated to a safe wooded area to recover.
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