Some very cold temperatures are on the way this weekend. The National Weather Service is forecasting temperatures to drop into the negative single digits by Friday night into Saturday, with windchills as cold as 30 below zero in some parts of Western Wisconsin. If you are having to travel, be sure to bundle up and don't have any exposed skin while outside. Indoors, be ready to deal with increased energy usage, and maybe have a blanket or two ready. Do not use gas powered devices to heat the indoors, as that can cause dangerous carbon monoxide poisoning.
One person is in custody after a shooting in Lake City yesterday. According to Lake City Police, officers responded to a report of a gunshot fired in the 1300 block of North Lakeshore Drive. Upon arrival, officers learned that a male individual was in the back area between the 1300bock of North High Street and North Lakeshore Drive. While officers tried to get the suspect to surrender, they learned there was a male victim in an apartment building. The victim was transported to St. Mary’s in Rochester. Officers used non-lethal means to subdue the suspect, and he was taken into custody.
City of Durand Property owners will notice an increase in the tax levy in their property tax bills. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says the increase was needed to help pay for road projects next year. The city will be reconstructing Madison Street from Memorial Park to the small boat landing next year along with 6th Ave East. Property owners should be receiving their tax bills this week.
Wabasha County’s emergency notification system became the target of an organized cybercrime group in November. Wabasha County Emergency Management says its notification system, called ‘OnSolve CodeRED’ has been decommissioned and will not be restored. The impacted data may include information provided by CodeRED users, such as name, address, phone numbers, and passwords. Authorities say if you used the same password for CodeRED and any other accounts, they strongly advise you to change those immediately. Wabasha County says it is working to replace the system with new security enhancements.
Fire crews say a fire destroyed a shed on Highway 93 south of Eau Claire yesterday. According to Eau Claire Fire, when firefighters arrived on the scene, to find the shed fully engulfed in flames. An investigation into the cause is underway. No one was injured in that blaze.
An Augusta man has been charged with hunting deer out of season. 40Yr old Dusty Begman was charged yesterday in Eau Claire County. Authorities said Bergman admitted to killing a deer in October of 2024 and registered the deer under his son’s account as being shot with a crossbow. The gun deer season was not open at the time. Bergman also admitted to killing three more deer that month at night from the driver's seat of his vehicle. Along with the illegal poaching of deer charge, Bergman is also facing four counts of illegal shining of deer.
Governor Tony Evers has signed a bill to provide ten-million dollars in funding to build a new mental health hospital in Chippewa Falls. The funding had been earmarked in this year's budget bill. The area has not had a local mental health hospital since HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital closed. Rogers Behavioral Health has already bought the land for the hospital, which will be located at Highway 178 and Wissota Green Boulevard.
At
the Capitol, Democrats reintroduce legislation to establish paid
family and medical leave for all workers in Wisconsin. Madison
Representative Francesca Hong says the legislation will continue to
support, help and ensure that workers and families in Wisconsin have
opportunities to be able to take care of themselves and their loved
ones when they work. The bill would guarantee Wisconsin workers up to
12 weeks of paid family or medical leave – and up to 14 weeks if
they’re eligible for a combination of both. Wisconsin would be the
14th state to adopt paid family and medical leave. The bill likely
faces challenges in the Republican controlled Legislature.
More new laws are in the books for Wisconsin. Governor Tony Evers signed more than 30 bills into law this week. Those include a new requirement for Wisconsin public, private and charter K-12 schools to notify parents of any misconduct at school which could affect their students’ well-being or safety, newly increased penalties associated with human trafficking and trafficking of a child, and a law extending the statute of limitations for prosecuting the crime of hiding or burying a corpse. The Democratic governor also recently vetoed nine bills passed by the Republican majority Wisconsin Legislature. Lawmakers will likely pass more legislation when return to the Capitol in the New Year.
A woman convicted in the "Slender Man" stabbing in Wisconsin is no longer being held at a jail. Multiple reports say Morgan Geyser's attorney requested she be moved to a mental health facility while awaiting a hearing on her conditional release. Geyser escaped a group home in Madison last month after cutting off her ankle monitor. Authorities found her the next day at a gas station in Posen, Illinois, with a companion. Geyser was convicted for the 2014 stabbing of a classmate to please the fictional character Slender Man. Officials have not confirmed her current location.
Three Wisconsin Department of Corrections staff members have been placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation. Officials say the decision is connected to delays in notifying law enforcement after Morgan Geyser's escape from a Madison group home. Officials are evaluating how alerts are communicated to law enforcement to prevent similar delays. A new teletype system is being implemented to ensure alerts reach authorities immediately.
Jury selection begins Thursday in the federal trial of a Milwaukee County judge. Judge Hannah Dugan is accused of trying to help undocumented immigrant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz escape ICE agents. Last April, federal prosecutors say Dugan escorted Flores-Ruiz out a side door of her courtroom. FBI agents arrested Dugan a week later, and a grand jury indicted her in May on charges of obstruction and concealing an individual to prevent arrest. Flores-Ruiz was facing misdemeanor battery domestic violence charges when he was involved in the incident. He reached a plea deal on the charges in October and was deported last month.
The Olmsted County Attorney's Office is investigating possible criminal charges after Byron Public Schools failed to meet state requirements for credit card purchases. County Attorney Mike Walters says his office asked the Olmsted County Sheriff's Office to assign a detective to the case. There are allegations that Byron Public Schools officials don't have the proper receipts for close to 60 thousand dollars of purchases. The missing documents were pointed out by an investigation in November by the Minnesota Office of the State Auditor.
The Minnesota Department of Transportation is bringing back its popular snowplow name contest. More than 100 people submitted names within the first hour of it opening for submissions on Tuesday. Through December 19th anybody can send in their best new on the agency's website. So far 44 plows have been named, but with over 800 trucks in the fleet, there are plenty that have yet to be named. The winner of the first contest, "Plowy McPlowFace," is still on the road in the St. Paul area.
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