News 02.07.16
7 February 2017 News
Authorities have arrested and charged a Chicago woman with stealing nearly $18,000 worth of personal care products such as tooth-whitening strips from Green Bay and Fox Valley-area stores in one day last month. Green Bay police say 20-year-old Lovea Moore faces charges in two Wisconsin counties. The criminal complaint alleges she stole goods like Crest White strips, Rogaine and Gillette fusion razor blades from several Walgreens and CVS stores in Green Bay, De Pere, Kaukauna, Appleton, Neenah and Oshkosh on Jan. 7. Lt. Rick Belanger of the Green Bay Police Department says it was “just grab, grab, grab, and go.” He says she took the stolen merchandise back to Chicago. Police believe a couple other people were helping her. Online court records don’t list an attorney for Moore.
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Mars says a miscommunication with a subcontractor led to a defective batch of its Skittles, reportedly on their way to becoming cattle feed, ending up scattered across a Dodge County highway. Selling food byproducts for use in animal feed is not uncommon, but Mars says the factory that made the spilled Skittles was not approved to do so. The candy maker also says it only sells to third party processors that mix unused candy with other ingredients to make animal feed, not to individual farmers. Now Mars says the mishap was the result of miscommunication between a vendor that handles its waste management and a subcontractor. The company says it doesn’t believe there was “ill intent” and that “corrective action” is being taken.
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An Oshkosh man arrested following a violent domestic incident in Fond du Lac is bound over for trial. Thirty nine year old Anthony Vera waived his preliminary hearing in Fond du lac County Circuit Court. Vera faces charges that include second degree sexual assault with use of force, false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery. He is being held in the Fond du lac County Jail on $50,000 cash bail.
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Gov. Scott Walker reveals some of the high points of the state budget he will release this week, including a University of Wisconsin tuition cut and more money for K-12 schools. But many of the details, like just how large the tuition cut would be, remain unknown. Walker will deliver his budget to the Republican-controlled Legislature on Wednesday. Walker has already talked about his plan to give schools more money, place new requirements on parents who receive food stamps and do more to put people back to work. The details will come in the budget, which spells out state spending for the next two years. The Legislature will make changes over the next five months and likely vote on the budget sometime in June or July.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s crackdown on collective bargaining could serve as a model for President Donald Trump’s plans to overhaul the federal workforce. But any such move by the new president would risk a fight with already wary union leaders. Walker is the chief promoter of the Wisconsin-as-blueprint idea and says he spoke last week with Vice President Mike Pence about taking elements of the state’s law and applying it at the national level. Union representatives in Washington are warning the new administration against using Walker’s work as a model. They say that would undermine Trump’s promise to create 25 million jobs. The Wisconsin law barred collective bargaining and big pay increases for most public workers. It also required them to pay more for health care and pension benefits.
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A new report says opioid prescriptions dropped nearly 12 percent in the last three months of 2016 compared to the same period in 2015. The report from the state Controlled Substances Board found the number of prescriptions decreased 11.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 compared with the fourth quarter of 2015, from 1.26 million prescriptions in 2015 to 1.13 million in 2016. The report also found that prescribers submitted 2.63 million records to the state’s Prescription Drug monitoring Program, a database that tracks prescriptions. As of December, the database stored 48 million prescription records. A 2015 state law requires prescribers to consult the database before dispensing a monitored drug. The law is expected to go into effect this spring.
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