The Pepin County Sheriff’s Department has installed three flock cameras in the county. Pepin County Sheriff Joel Wener says a private donation of $10,000 for the next three years paid for the installation of the cameras. While the donation for the cameras was private, Wener says the department did notify the Pepin County Law Enforcement Committee about the cameras. During last months law enforcement committee meeting some members of the public asked the committee to void the contract with Flock. Wener said he believes the committee will be having more discussions on the cameras at future meetings.
The Durand-Arkansaw School Board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a public hearing on a waiver to start school before September 1st, 2027, consideration of the Library Lease with the city of Durand, and reports from the superintendent and building administrators. Tonights meeting begins at 6pm in the board room at Durand-Arkansaw High School.
The Tarrant Park Pool in Durand closes on Sunday. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says with school starting, staffing becomes an issue. Those that have extra card punches for the pool can donate them to other families to use before the pool closes on Sunday.
The Mondovi City Council is looking at finishing some landscaping at Mirror Lake Park. Mondovi Mayor Brady Weiss says the landscaping would be around the new Nancy Polzer Pavallion. The city hopes to get that completed either this fall or next spring.
The Buffalo County Sheriff’s Department is reporting a phone scam. Yesterday, the department received reports of residents receiving calls from an individual claiming to be a member of the department. The department wants to remind residents the department will never ask you for sensitive personal or financial information. If you receive a call or believe you are a target of this scam, you are to call the sheriff’s department directly at 608-685-4433 to verify whether a deputy or dispatch is attempting to contact you.
An Altoona man is free on bond, but facing charges including child porn possession and invasion of privacy. Police sat that 33-year-old Adam Price was found to be in possession of child sex abuse materials and that he also recorded people on video without their consent as they used the bathroom in his home. Reports say Price has admitted to the allegations.
Charges filed against a suspect accused of making threats against a St. Croix County church are being dropped. The Faith Community Church in Hudson received a hoax bomb threat back in April. Bryant Camp was subsequently charged with making terrorist threats and causing a bomb scare. Prosecutors have agreed to drop the charges down the line if Camp continues psychiatric treatment.
Two men are in custody after a Monday night shooting incident in La Crosse. Police say a group of men in a vehicle followed teens in a car with complaints about how the young people were driving. The teens drove to the home of one of their parents and the suspects followed. At the home, two of the men got out of their car and argued with a parent. There was a struggle over a firearm that was in the possession of one of the suspects and the weapon went off. No one was hit. Joseph Bechtel and Brandon Stansell were arrested for recklessly endangering safety.
In La Crosse County on Monday, ground was broken on a new commercial dive training center. The J.F. Brennan Company facility in the Village of French Island will be a first-of-its-kind center and will feature a 25-foot-tall dive tank in addition to space for classroom instruction. Students will learns skills needed for underwater construction, welding, inspection and more.
More cases are being confirmed in the southwestern Wisconsin measles outbreak. The Grant County Health Department says two new cases have been linked to dozens of others in Lafayette and Iowa counties, bringing the number of cases in the area to 36. There are also three probable cases that officials are looking into. Public health leaders are working to identify others who may have been infected from exposure, although no exposure sites have been listed as of yet.
The Wisconsin State Patrol is calling for school bus safety as students prepare to head back to class. State troopers say there were 655 crashes involving school buses across the Badger State last year, an increase from the year before. On top of that, there were more than 13-hundred traffic convictions for drivers who failed to stop for a school bus. A state patrol official told WMTV-15 many drivers are thinking where they need to go, instead of where they are, like a school zone.
Madison's city attorney has determined that the Office of the Independent Police Monitor can't access records related to the police shooting death of Corey Ruiz. The city attorney said the records can't be accessed until the state's investigation is complete. Ruiz was shot and killed by Madison Police Officer Kile Baitinger-Peterson during a struggle with police on July 22nd. City Attorney Michael Haas issued a formal legal opinion on August 15th addressing a subpoena the monitor's office sent to MPD requesting records from the incident. Haas said state law gives priority to the outside investigation being conducted by the Department of Justice's Division of Criminal Investigations.
A
bipartisan US House bill could address an immigration status backlog.
Eastern Wisconsin Congressman Glenn Grothman and California’s Lou
Correa have introduced the PERM Backlog Reduction Act, which they say
will reduce costly delays in the Department of Labor's Program
Electronic Review Management system. Employers use the PERM system to
obtain permanent labor certifications required for certain permanent
employment-based immigration petitions. Rep. Grothman explained, “The
PERM Backlog Reduction Act provides employers with an optional,
self-funded way to receive timely decisions while giving the
Department of Labor the resources it needs to reduce backlogs and
modernize the system.” More details on the PERM Backlog Reduction
Act can be found at Grothman.House.gov.
A vandalized Flock camera hampers investigators in a Lincoln County hit-and-run crash . An unidentified man was hospitalized after being hit by a southbound vehicle along County Road K outside Merrill early Sunday morning. Officers say they were able to collect some evidence at the scene, but won't get any help from a nearby FLOCK camera- it was recently vandalized and not in service at the time of the incident. They're looking for a larger vehicle, possibly a pickup, that has a damaged passenger side rear-view mirror.
A federal judge is rejecting the Trump administration's demand for Minnesota voter data. Judge Katherine Menendez dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit on Monday. The department sought an unredacted voter list containing birth dates and partial Social Security numbers. Menendez ruled the Civil Rights Act and Help America Vote Act do not authorize the demand. The Justice Department disagrees with the ruling and says it is assessing its next steps.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is looking for volunteers to teach hunting skills across the state. The DNR says becoming a volunteer instructor offers a chance to shape the future of hunting in Wisconsin, gain hands-on teaching experience and work with DNR staff. Volunteer opportunities are available statewide for instructors of all experience levels. Volunteer opportunities include Outdoor Skills programs, which teach specific skills like shooting basics, processing deer, dog training and cooking wild game. The Learn to Hunt Program allows volunteers to host educational mentored hunts outside of the normal hunting season.
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