News 04.14.16
14 April 2016 News
A World War II-era bazooka rocket shut down streets around the government center in Fond du Lac before bomb experts determined it did not pose a risk. Fond du Lac police say someone cleaning out their attic found the old military rocket, put it in the trunk of their car and brought it the sheriff’s department at the government center Tuesday evening. Authorities didn’t know if the old munition was stable or explosive, so they called the Brown County bomb squad. With the help of a military unit in Madison, officials determined the device was a shoulder-launched bazooka rocket designed to pierce a tank’s armor. The bomb squad determined it was a training round and wasn’t explosive.
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With the severe weather season approaching Fond du Lac County is being recognized as a Storm Ready community. Emergency management director, Jim McNabb, says Fond du lac County is one of only a handful of communities in Wisconsin that have successfully completed the requirements to become certified as a Storm Ready Community. McNabb says requirements to receive designation include having a 24 hour warning point and emergency operation center, an action plan that responds to the threat of severe weather, promoting readiness, awareness and offering community education, the ability to deliver warnings in multiple ways and having a formal hazardous weather plan.
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Prosecutors in Fond du Lac County have filed criminal charges against the sister of a woman convicted of killing her husband and hiding his body in Milwaukee. Tina Ewell is charged with hiding a corpse, harboring a felon, obstructing police and failing to report a death. The 35-year-old Fond du Lac woman is the sister of Eve Nance, who was found guilty in January of fatally shooting Timothy Nance. His body was found on Thanksgiving with two bullet wounds to the head in a wooded area on Milwaukee’s northwest side. Ewell was arrested and detained along with her sister last November, but never charged. She filed a civil lawsuit after she was held in jail for two weeks without being charged. She was released after her sister confessed to killing her husband over an affair.
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Unions that won a ruling striking down Wisconsin’s right-to-work law have submitted a proposed order finalizing the decision that would declare the law is unconstitutional statewide. Dane County Judge William Foust found the law amounts to an unconstitutional taking of union services on Friday as part of a lawsuit the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, Machinists Local Lodge 1061 and United Steelworkers District 2 filed last year. The unions hailed the ruling but state Attorney General Brad Schimel has said it’s unclear whether the ruling applies beyond the three organizations. The unions submitted a proposed final order for Foust’s approval on Tuesday. The order would declare that right-to-work is void and can’t be enforced against any employer or unions in the state.
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A majority of Conservation Congress spring hearing attendees say lawmakers should repeal a law relaxing iron mining regulations. The congress asked attendees at its spring hearings in all 72 Wisconsin counties Monday whether they want the law erased. According to state Department of Natural Resources tallies released Wednesday, 2,350 attendees voted to get rid of the law and 1,140 voted to keep it in place. That translates to a majority of attendees in 62 counties voting for repeal. The question is advisory only. The Legislature almost certainly won’t repeal the law as long as Republicans maintain control of at least one house. They currently hold both the Senate and Assembly. A majority of attendees in 70 counties also voted for a moratorium on new state permits for frack sand mines.
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