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20 September 2017 News


A Berlin man wins the second top prize in a lottery scratch game. Peter Resop won $100,000 playing the Cash is King scratch game. Resop purchased the winning ticket at Kwik Trip, 270 Broadway, in Berlin. This was the last $100,000 top prize remaining in the game. Retailers who sell winning tickets over $599 receive an incentive of 2 percent of the winning ticket amount, up to $100,000.

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An open house will be held this weekend for a major expansion at Waupun Memorial Hospital. Hospital chief operating officer DeAnn Thurmer says the $23 million addition will open on September 26. Thurmer says the two story, nearly 53,000 square foot addition will house medical-surgical patient rooms, intensive care, labor-delivery and postpartum rooms. Thurmer says the new rooms are larger. The public is invited to an open house from 11am to 2pm on Sunday September 24.

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One of 10 jurors who decided a Wisconsin girl was mentally ill when she helped stab a classmate to please the fictional horror character Slender Man says the most powerful evidence was testimony by medical experts. Anissa Weier, now 15, will go to a mental hospital rather than prison after Friday’s verdict. Weier and a co-defendant, Morgan Geyser, admitted to stabbing a classmate in a Waukesha park in 2014, but Weier argued she was mentally ill and not responsible for her actions. All three girls were 12. The juror says testimony from two doctors about Weier’s mental stability was compelling, and had credibility because they were court-appointed. The juror’s identity is being withheld because threatening comments had been posted about the jury on social media.

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A Wisconsin appeals court upholds the state’s right-to-work law, reversing a Dane County circuit judge’s ruling striking it down. The 3rd District Court of Appeals on Tuesday sided with Gov. Scott Walker and rejected the challenge brought by three unions. Right-to-work laws prohibit businesses and unions from reaching agreements that require all workers, not just union members, to pay union dues. Unions challenged the law, arguing that it enables nonunion members to receive free representation. Wisconsin is one of 28 states with a right-to-work law. Last year, Dane County Circuit Judge William Foust struck down the law as unconstitutional. But the appeals court says it is lawful.

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