News 10.31.17
31 October 2017 News
Police have identified and released the name of a person killed in a one-vehicle accident in Waushara County. The incident happened Friday evening around 9:20 p.m. on State Road 21 by County Road Y west in the Town of Dakota. When authorities arrived, they found a vehicle on fire in a cornfield and the driver on the ground outside the vehicle. The driver is identified as 54-year-old Scott Meyer of Saint Francis. Witnesses say it appeared Meyer was trying to get out of the vehicle after the crash. The accident remains under investigation.
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Authorities in northeastern Wisconsin have identified the victims in a wrong-way car crash that killed three people and critically injured two others. The Brown County Sheriff’s Office says 38-year-old Todd Beyer of Green Bay drove the wrong way onto an exit ramp and entered Highway 57 going south in the northbound lanes Friday. He collided head-on with a northbound car near Green Bay. Beyer was pronounced dead at a hospital. Two women from the Appleton area in the backseat of the northbound car died at the scene. They are identified as 84-year-old Ila Schabow and her daughter, 56-year-old Lynn Eckes. The 32-year-old woman who was driving the northbound car and her 58-year-old father, who was a front-seat passenger, remain hospitalized. All four people in the northbound car were related.
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The state Senate is poised to adopt a bill designed to crack down on deadly opioids known as fentanyl analogs. The highly potent drug is being added to heroin to stretch its use, leading to spikes in overdoses across the state. Republican Rep. John Nygren’s daughter, Cassandra Nygren, was charged this month with providing the fentanyl that killed a pregnant woman. The bill would add fentanyl analogs to the synthetic opiates category of controlled substances under state law, making it easier for prosecutors to go after manufacturers. The bill would make possessing, manufacturing or dealing a fentanyl analog a felony. The Senate is set to take up the bill today. The Assembly passed it in June but the Senate plans to add more analog forms to the bill.
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Wisconsin’s youth prisons are finding it difficult to move away from using pepper spray, solitary confinement and shackles even though those practices are out of step with similar prisons around the U.S. Violence has erupted repeatedly since July, when a federal judge ordered a dramatic reduction in disciplinary tactics at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake. Staff members say inmates have been emboldened by the order. Prison teacher Pandora Lobacz was knocked out by an inmate who punched her in the face this month. She says she’s terrified. But Jeffrey Butts, who has researched youth justice for nearly three decades, says the problems come from poor management. Butts says the methods aren’t necessary, they don’t work and they just lead to more violence.
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