News 11.08.16
8 November 2016 News
A Pennsylvania man convicted of exposing himself to a Ripon girl on the internet is going to prison. At a hearing last week, Fond du lac judge Dale English sentenced 40 year old William Weaver to 13 and a half years in prison and nine years extended supervision for multiple charges including child enticement, causing a child to view sexual activity, exposing genitals, and exposing a child to harmful material. Ripon police captain Bill Wallner says Weaver made contact with the 11-year-old Ripon area girl on Facebook. Wallner says the child’s parents contacted police after learning about their daughter’s online relationship with Weaver.
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Wisconsin’s traditional nine-day gun deer season is set to begin in less than two weeks. The season is scheduled to begin statewide on Saturday, Nov. 19 and will run until Sunday, Jan. 27, once again spanning the Thanksgiving weekend. Hunters killed 205,125 deer during the nine-day season last year. This year’s season will extend to Dec. 7 in all metro subunits. Hunters also can take part in a statewide antlerless-only hunt from Dec. 8 to Dec. 11 and in a holiday antlerless hunt in select counties in the southern two-thirds of the state from Dec. 24 to Jan. 1.
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Aging Wisconsin voters are facing transportation and identification challenges as they look to vote on Election Day. Wisconsin Assisted Living Association executive director Jim Murphy says traveling to a polling place can be difficult and that Wisconsin’s voter ID law poses an issue to older adults who may not have a valid driver’s license because they don’t drive. He says it can be hard to track down a birth certificate to get a state-issued ID just for voting can because some older adults were born at home or changed their name. Murphy says he expects there will be some issues today. Eighty-nine-year-old Mary Conarchy says she voted absentee because it would be hard for her to travel to a polling place on Election Day.
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Experts are predicting record corn and soybean yields throughout much of Wisconsin, thanks to a near-perfect growing season. The corn crop is especially impressive. Farmers are expected to produce 549 million bushels of corn for grain this year. That is nearly 7 percent higher than the state record 515 million bushels harvested in 2011 and up 57 million bushels, or 11.6 percent, higher than last year’s total. The average soybean yield for the state is expected to reach 101 million bushels, which would break the record of 92.6 million bushels set last year. Record yields were predicted after Wisconsin led the country for the highest percentage of corn and soybeans in good or excellent condition for much of the growing season.
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