News 12.13.16
13 December 2016 News
A Waupun man charged in connection with a high speed chase that started in Ripon is been bound over for trial. Twenty three year old Dustin Duket waived his preliminary hearing Friday on charges of recklessly endangering safety, eluding an officer, resisting, operating while revoked and possession of THC. He is being held in the Fond du lac County Jail on $100,000 cash bond. Ducket was involved in a high speed chase last month that started in Ripon and ended more than 14 miles later on Highway TC when a sheriff’s squad car spun Ducket’s car into the ditch.
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The name of a woman injured following a one vehicle accident in Fond du Lac County is released. Police says 29-year-old Tonya L. Rousseau of Oshkosh was injured Friday night just before midnight in the accident on Lakeshore Drive in the Town of Friendship. Investigation shows Rousseau was traveling south on Lakeshore drive when she lost control of her vehicle, crossed the center line, drove off the roadway and struck a tree. She was transported by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment of non life threatening injuries. Police say speed and alcohol are believed to be factors in the crash.
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The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says reports that a person may have fallen through the ice on Neosho Pond over the weekend turned out to be unfounded. Shortly before 6pm Saturday rescue personnel were called to the pond and upon arrival found tracks going out onto the ice and saw a possible hole in the ice. The spot where the hole was believed to be and where the subject was seen to have possibly fallen in, turned out to be a clear patch of ice. The fire department found that the subject had gotten off the ice safely. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office wants to remind people that area lakes have just recently started freezing over and most lakes are still unsafe to venture out on.
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Officials at a nonprofit homeless shelter say they’re addressing safety concerns at the Wisconsin facility after a veteran jumped out of a third-floor window recently. The resident, who was found alive and taken to a hospital, is the second incident this year involving the Veterans Assistance Foundation. The Tomah Veterans Affairs Medical Center announced it would end the shelter’s lease agreement after a veteran’s death at the facility in September. The shelter’s lease ends in January, but it can be extended through April if VAF adds additional safety measures. The nonprofit, which houses about 30 veterans, says it’s working to tackle the problems but has not yet agreed to the new conditions. VAF Executive Director Don Roach says the shelter is working with the VA to continue caring for the veterans living at the facility.
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A member of Wisconsin’s newly created ethics oversight commission resigns less than six months into his term, saying the partisan board is too secret, lacks transparency and is purposefully set up to fail. Robert Kinney issued a statement Monday describing his reasons for resigning from the Wisconsin Ethics Commission. Kinney is a reserve judge who spent more than 30 years as an Oneida County circuit judge. He was one of three Democratic picks for the board which also has three Republican members. The new partisan commission replaced the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board in July. Kinney says the new commission’s rules “require too much secrecy and too little transparency.” He says commission members create obstacles for staff that will erode morale and “we will lose these talented people.”
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A judge orders separate trials for two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to kill a classmate to please a fictional horror character called Slender Man. Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren announced his ruling Monday. Bohren ordered separate trials for 14-year-old Morgan Geyser and 15-year-old Anissa Weier after learning both defense teams and prosecutors agreed that a joint trial could pose legal risks. Both girls were 12 when prosecutors say they stabbed classmate Payton Leutner 19 times in a Waukesha park following a sleepover in 2014. Payton survived. She was able to crawl to a path where a bicyclist found her. Geyser and Weier have pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease to attempted homicide charges in adult court.
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