News 12.14.16
14 December 2016 News
A Fond du Lac County Circuit judge extends a temporary restraining order prohibiting placement of a convicted violent sex offender from Washington County at a town of Eldorado home. Judge Richard Nuss issued the order after a two and a half hour motion hearing Monday afternoon. The judge repeatedly stated he was disappointed that the Department of Health Services did not show Fond du lac County respect by properly notifying county officials of their recommendation to place Terry Olson in Fond du lac County. Corporation Counsel Meggin McNamara says she was disappointed that DHS apparently did not provide the Washington County circuit judge with all of the concerns from a Department of Corrections probation agent who recommended against the placement. Mcnamara says she is also concerned that it appears DHS didn’t look fervently for appropriate residences in adjacent counties. A Washington County judge last week suspended a placement decision until DHS takes another look at potential sites in Washington County. That decision is expected in a couple of weeks.
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Oshkosh Police are looking for suspects in connection with a beating early Sunday morning. The incident happened around 1:30am Sunday in the 400 block of West Lincoln Avenue. Police say four men assaulted a 20-year-old man from Greenville. The man was taken to an Oshkosh hospital and later transferred to Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay. Witnesses described the suspects as Asian males – one having long, blonde hair. They drove from the scene in a silver Pontiac Grand Am. Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Dean Artus at 920-236-5726.
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No injuries were reported in a home standoff in Poynette that involved an exchange of gunfire between the suspect and police. Officers with the Poynette Police Department and Columbia County Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a suicidal person with a gun shortly after 6 p.m. Monday. Authorities say the 40-year-old man began shooting at officers, hitting a squad car, and officers returned fire. The man later left the home and surrendered. He was arrested on a charge of attempted homicide.
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Gov. Scott Walker says repealing Wisconsin’s minimum mark-up on gas sales wouldn’t satisfy his conditions for raising the state’s gas tax to help pay for road construction. Republicans have been wrestling among themselves over how to solve a $1 billion shortfall in the state’s transportation fund. Walker has proposed borrowing money and delaying work on major projects. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos believes every way to raise revenue should be considered, including raising the gas tax. Walker says he’ll veto any increase in the gas tax without a corresponding tax decrease somewhere else. On Monday, he told reporters during a news conference detailing his visits last week to Middle Eastern military bases that erasing the state’s minimum mark-up law on gas doesn’t count as a corresponding tax decrease.
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Conservationists are challenging plans to allow rockets, motorcycles and dog training in a recreation area once home to the Badger Army Ammunition Plant. The Department of Natural Resources’ plan for the Sauk Prairie State Recreation area calls for hiking, biking and horse trails as well as space for model rockets, allowing motorcycles on trails and a hunting dog training area. The DNR’s board is set to approve the plan today. The Sauk Prairie Conservation Alliance wants to restore the area to native prairie. The group filed suit Thursday alleging rockets, motorcycles and dog training were never part of the DNR’s initial concepts for the property. The lawsuit asks a judge to set the plan aside as unlawful. A DNR spokesman said the agency doesn’t comment on pending litigation.
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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein says she plans to donate any money left over from the $7.3 million she raised to force recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Stein says the exact costs of the recounts aren’t known yet, but she expects to have money left over. Stein is asking donors to complete an online survey about which election reform groups and voting rights groups they want to receive the money. Wisconsin completed its recount Monday with little changes in the results. President-elect Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by nearly 23,000 votes in the state. A federal court halted Michigan’s recount after three days and another federal judge also did not allow for a recount in Pennsylvania.
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