News 05.25.16
25 May 2016 News
Classes at several schools in Wisconsin have been disrupted by threatening phone calls, similar to incidents at other schools across the country and in the United Kingdom. Threats were received Monday at schools in Green Bay, Appleton, and Port Washington; and at schools near Madison, Oshkosh and Kenosha. The threats resulted in evacuations and lockdowns. Some closed for the day, while classes resumed at others. Officials with the Appleton School District described the threat to an elementary school there as “a short and anonymous automated phone call.” Other schools across the country also reported receiving threatening calls Monday, from new England to California.
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An area 8-year-old girl is receiving a life-changing gift from a special donor at a Milwaukee area hospital. Oakfield Elementary first-grader Natasha Fuller will be able to do things she’s never done before — ride a roller coaster, play on a sandy beach and take a swim. Fuller was in surgery Tuesday, along with a teacher at her school, Jodi Schmidt, who is donating a kidney to the girl. Fuller’s smile and attitude in spite of her chronic kidney disease inspired Schmidt to get tested months ago for a possible donation. Schmidt, Fuller and her family were ecstatic to learn the teacher was a match. Natasha has been living with her grandparents in Oakfield so she could get the specialized treatment she needed in Milwaukee. Her parents and siblings live in Oklahoma.
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A Wisconsin man who blamed his beer-battered fish fry after he was pulled over the 10th time for drunken driving is going to prison. A judge in Adams County sentenced John Przybyla to seven years in prison Monday. A jury in February found the 76-year-old Friendship man guilty of felony drunken driving. The latest conviction was the result of a 2014 traffic stop on Highway 13 in Dell Prairie. A sheriff’s deputy told Przybyla he could smell alcohol on his breath. Przybyla explained that he had recently eaten beer-battered fish. Judge Alan White told Przybyla the offense is even more aggravating because he had failed to recognize his problems. Przybyla was also sentenced to four years of extended supervision.
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Washington County authorities are investigating what’s being described as a “suspicious situation” that occurred at Ackerman’s Grove County Park. The Washington County Sheriff’s Department says two girls, ages 9 and 11, reported that at about 6:30 p.m. Monday night, a red or maroon older model minivan driven by a male in his 60’s or 70’s stopped by them and held out candy and asked if they wanted any. The girls refused and quickly left the area. The vehicle was last seen leaving the park. Deputies were dispatched to check the area and other parks in the county, but no suspects were located. The suspect is further described as having grey hair with several days’ growth of facial hair and wearing a brown plaid button-down shirt. Ackerman’s Grove County Park is on County Highway Z in the Town of Polk.
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A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit filed by the Menominee Indian Tribe which sought protection for industrial hemp. The tribe filed a lawsuit last November against the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Justice after the agencies destroyed its hemp crop grown on its reservation in northeastern Wisconsin. Industrial hemp has low levels of THC, the active chemical in marijuana. But it has commercial uses, including its oil for health and beauty products and hemp fiber for building materials. The tribe argued that it was exempt from a state law banning the crop. Judge William Griesbach disagreed. He wrote that because the tribe is located in Wisconsin, the exemption does not apply.
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A Milwaukee mother whose car was stolen with her infant strapped in the back seat says she held onto the vehicle for as long as she could as the carjackers drove away. The woman was dragged down the street in Milwaukee Monday and eventually lost her grip. But what happened next was unexpected. The car stopped about a block away. And, one of the two carjackers got out, removed the 1-month-old baby, still in his car seat, and left him at the curb. Surveillance video from a nearby house shows the mother running to retrieve her baby, who wasn’t hurt. Police are looking for the carjackers and the vehicle.
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