News 09.21.16
21 September 2016 News
A Waupun man is charged in connection with a weekend stabbing incident. Eighteen year old Nicholas Core is charged in Dodge County Circuit Court with causing injury by negligent handling of a weapon. The victim, a 19 year old Randolph man, was treated at the hospital for non life-threatening injuries. Waupun police chief Dale Heeringa says Core was arrested after the Dodge County SWAT team entered the West Brown Street residence Sunday night. Heeringa says the investigation into what caused the incident continues. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for November 10th.
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A 24-year-old man is facing several charges, including being accused of raping two women in Oshkosh. Timothy Cole is charged with Attempted Homicide, two counts of Sexual Assault, Substantial Battery, False Imprisonment, and Strangulation and Suffocation. On Sept. 14, an Oshkosh officer was investigating a suspicious incident complaint when he heard a woman screaming out of a broken window of a building in the 1600 block of Oregon Street. Police had to kick down doors to get to the woman, who was barricaded in a back bedroom. Police say she had blood all over her face and was taken to the hospital for treatment of serious injuries. The victim told detectives she was at a neighborhood bar when she met the suspect. She stated he was too drunk to drive and she took pity on him, inviting him to spend the night on her couch. Back at her residence, the suspect attempted to have sex with the victim and when she refused, he attacked her and attempted to rape her. The criminal complaint states DNA evidence ties Cole to another rape that happened Aug. 21. A woman filed a complaint saying she was walking home from a bar when a man put a hand over her mouth, dragged her and threw her down and raped her. The woman had been taken to a hospital for a sexual assault exam. Timothy Cole is being held on a $1 million cash bond. His next court appearance is scheduled for Sept. 26.
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The new owner of Brillion Iron Works says it will start laying off workers at the foundry in eastern Wisconsin in November. Metaldyne Performance Group announced last week it plans to shut down the foundry. More than 300 people will lose their jobs. The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development says it was notified the layoffs will begin Nov. 11. About 340 workers are affected. MPG says workers in Brillion will be offered a chance to relocate to other MPG foundries “as opportunities exist.” The Southfield, Michigan, company bought the Brillion foundry from Accuride Corporation for $14 million on Sept. 2.
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Gov. Scott Walker is asking federal agriculture officials to declare a disaster in three northern Wisconsin counties in the wake of heavy rains and flooding. Walker’s office announced Monday that the governor asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday for a disaster declaration for Ashland, Bayfield and Iron counties. Farmers in those counties suffered crop losses after heavy rains and flooding swept through the area in July. Walker’s office says the rain left fields oversaturated or underwater for an extended period of time, killing crops or dramatically reducing yields. A disaster declaration would make farmers in those counties as well as adjacent counties eligible for a variety of federal assistance programs.
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Wisconsin’s Controlled Substances Board outlaws a synthetic opiod known as U-47700. The board decided Tuesday to ban the drug. According to a board news release, it will become illegal on Nov. 7. Rep. John Nygren’s office said the move came at the request of Wisconsin district attorneys. Nygren has written 17 different laws to combat prescription drug and heroin abuse. U-47700 was developed in the mid-1970s as a painkiller. The drug is eight times more potent than morphine and has been linked to at least 50 deaths nationwide. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued notice earlier this month than it intends to outlaw the drug effective in early October.
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Early in-person voting is underway in Wisconsin. Voting began Monday in Wisconsin Rapids. Early voting is set to get underway on Sept. 26 in Madison and Milwaukee, the state’s two largest cities. Republicans passed laws in 2011 and 2014 restricting early in-person voting to the 10 weekdays between the third Monday before the election and the Friday immediately preceding it. U.S. District Judge James Peterson struck down the limitations in July as part of a broad ruling invalidating a number of Republican-authored election laws, saying the restrictions on early in-person voting created a burden on voters and no weekend voting intentionally discriminates against Democratic-leaning black people in Milwaukee. Now the only restriction on early in-person voting is it can’t occur on the Monday before the election.
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