Another Winter Storm is expected for the weekend. The National Weather Service has issued Winter Storm Warnings for Buffalo, Trempealeau and Goodhue Counties and Winter Weather Advisories for the rest of the WRDN Listening Area for Saturday through Sunday morning. Snow is expected to develop overnight tonight and continue all day Saturday. Four to Ten inches of snow is expected with the highest amounts along and south of I-90. After the storm moves through, quiet weather is expected all next week.
Three duck hunters had to be rescued when their boat capsized on Wednesday. According to the Wabasha County Sheriffs Department, rescue crews responded to the capsized boat near Weaver Landing on the Mississippi River. All three hunters were brought to shore by other hunters on the river. The three were taken to a local hospital.
The Fair Maps Wisconsin Coalition will be holding an informational meeting on the proposal to create an Independent Redistricting Commission in Wisconsin in Nelson on December 6th. The group is spearheading a plan to establish the commission with the goal of ending gerrymandering in Wisconsin when new voting district maps are redrawn every 10 yrs. The meeting will be held at the Nelson Community Hall starting at 12:30pm on December 6th.
A student in the Osseo-Fairchild School District has a pen pal like no other. Aubrey Hart and her classmates were instructed to write letters, look up addresses and send out their messages when learning to write cursive. Aubrey sent her letter off to the president asking about life in the White House. This week she received a response from President Trump. For his part, the president's letter was typed -- but signed in cursive.
Prison is being ordered for a St. Paul man convicted on charges stemming from a shooting in St. Croix County. Investigators say that Antonio Thelen fired a gun through the window of a Hammond bar last year and wounded one person. Thelen pleaded guilty to charges that include first-degree recklessly endangering safety and has now been sentenced to a term of seven-and-a-half years behind bars.
A Western Wisconsin Hospital is receiving a federal loan. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development (RD) State Director Andrew C. Iverson announced St. Croix Regional Medical Center will receive $105 million to construct a 130,000-square-foot replacement critical access hospital facility in St. Croix Falls. The funding includes a $95,000,000 direct loan and a $10,000,000 guaranteed loan. Once completed, the new hospital will increase bed capacity to 25, add surgical and specialty care units, incorporate state of the art imaging and diagnostics, and have a state-of-the-art floor plan to support efficient patient flow and centralize outpatient services. The replacement facility will be located approximately three miles from the existing facility, which is outside the center of the City of St. Croix Falls residential district. The location will allow emergency vehicles easier access.
The
Green County Humane Society is asking neighbors and animal lovers for
assistance as they care for 55 recently-rescued dogs. The
organization took in 29 adult dogs and 26 puppies on Tuesday after
the animals were removed from a hoarding situation in Lafayette
County. Operators of the shelter say they need donations and foster
families to help care for the pets, as their facility is now over
capacity. For information on how to help, visit
green-county-humane-dot-org.
A pair of three-judge panels will hear lawsuits regarding Wisconsin’s congressional maps. The judges were appointed by the liberal majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The lawsuits argue current congressional district maps unconstitutionally favor Republicans and must be redrawn. The suits will proceed in Dane County Circuit Court, although the judges are from multiple counties. It's the first time this process has been used since being created by Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature more than a decade ago. Conservative Justices Annette Ziegler and Rebecca Bradley accused the liberal justices of attempting to deliver a political advantage to Democrats. Conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn agreed with part of the order, but not with how the judges were chosen.
Wisconsin is joining a lawsuit by 20 states against the Trump administration over cuts and new conditions to a Department of Housing and Urban Development program. The suit targets reductions in permanent housing assistance, with most of the funds shifted to transitional housing that includes work or service requirements. Governor Evers warns the move could force thousands of vulnerable people out of their homes during winter. New York Attorney General Letitia James is leading the lawsuit.
Morgan Geyser is going to be extradited back to Wisconsin. The 23-year-old was in court yesterday for a brief hearing where she signed a waiver of extradition following her arrest in Illinois on Sunday. Geyser was just 12 years old when she and a friend stabbed another girl nearly to death in a bid to appease the fictional "Slender Man" character. Geyser was placed in a mental institution after the 2014 attack but a judge earlier this year approved her conditional release to a group home. She apparently cut off a monitoring bracelet and left that facility in Wisconsin over the weekend. The Waukesha County District Attorney told reporters she hopes a motion is filed to revoke the conditional release.
Twenty people were arrested last week in a federal human trafficking probe covering an area including Kenosha. According to the Kenosha County Sheriff’s Office, the investigation was based out of the Chicago area with federal teams from Homeland Security and the FBI staging portions of the operation out of the Kenosha Public Safety Building. The sheriff’s office and Kenosha Police Department were not asked to participate in the action. The sheriff’s office says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement contacted them to confirm that any arrested undocumented immigrants connected to the case were deported, adding that ICE was not part of the original operation.
Drivers
across Minnesota are being reminded to not drink and drive this
Thanksgiving weekend. The Minnesota Department of Public Safety says
police across the state will be participating in an extra DWI
enforcement campaign, looking to crack down on impaired drivers. The
campaign kicks off today and will run every weekend through December
31st.
Sidewalk chalk is now legal again in Anoka. Anoka City Council amended the law to allow water-soluble chalk drawings in public. The 2021 ban on chalk art, and other displays on public property, drew national attention and protests over free speech. The intention of the ban was to prevent the destruction of public property following the protests of the police killing of George Floyd. With the new amendment, Anoka now allows chalk on city sidewalks, as long as it can be easily removed with water, for drawings intended to last for less than 24 hours.
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