News 03.01.17
1 March 2017 News
The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office identifies the person who died following a one vehicle crash in Dodge County over the weekend. The Sheriff’s Office says 27 year old Timothy Price of rural Beaver Dam died following the crash early Sunday morning on Highway D near Zimmerman Drive in the town of Beaver Dam. Price was the driver of a car westbound on Highway D when it left the road, entered a ditch and struck a utility pole. Investigators say Price and a passenger, 27 year old Deon Sallis, of rural Beaver Dam exited the vehicle and ran approximately a half mile to the home of the driver where Price died. Sallis was transported to Beaver Dam Community Hospital. The crash remains under investigation by the Dodge County Crash Investigation Team.
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Authorities say the deaths of a couple in their home near Oshkosh were a murder-suicide involving a former financial adviser who was on trial for allegedly stealing money from elderly clients. Winnebago County Sheriff John Matz says that Dewey Josephson apparently shot his wife, Jean Walsh-Josephson, then shot himself in what was a pre-planned event. Deputies were sent to the couple’s home in the Town of Utica to check on her welfare after she failed to show up in court Monday morning. Court records show Walsh-Josephson was in the middle of a two-week trial on charges of stealing from elderly clients at Thrivent Financial in Oshkosh. Prosecutors say she stole more than $4 million from at least 14 victims going back about a decade.
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One lucky player in Fond du Lac County matched all five numbers in the Badger 5 drawing on Sunday, February 26 to win the night’s $71,000 jackpot. The lucky winner purchased their ticket at Dins Garage & Mini Mart at N3006 State Highway 67 in Campbellsport. Sunday’s winning Badger 5 numbers were 1, 10, 12, 18 and 31. Badger 5 is a daily lotto game available only in Wisconsin. All lottery winners have 180 days from the drawing to claim their prize. A winner at this prize level must redeem their ticket at the Wisconsin Lottery’s Madison or Milwaukee offices.
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A Republican state senator is questioning a bill that would grant people who overdose on heroin legal immunity. The measure is one of 11 bills included in a special legislative session Gov. Scott Walker called in January to address opioid and heroin abuse. The proposal would ensure someone who suffers an overdose would be immune from having his probation, parole or extended supervision revoked and from being prosecuted for possession. Sen. Sheila Harsdorf, one of the measure’s sponsors, told the Senate judiciary committee during a hearing Tuesday that the bill is designed to save lives. Committee member Duey Stroebel questioned whether possessing a large amount of drugs would negate immunity. Harsdorf responded that the bill would prohibit prosecution for possession. Stroebel commented that the bill provides no accountability for large-scale possession.
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A bill addressing abuse allegations at Wisconsin’s troubled youth prison is gaining traction. The measure would make guards at the facility outside Irma mandatory child abuse reporters. It sailed through a Senate judiciary committee public hearing Tuesday. Sen. LaTonya Johnson, one of the bill’s chief authors, was the only person who spoke on the measure, saying it would create accountability and transparency. Wisconsin law protects mandatory reporters from being fired. Workers in nearly 30 professions are considered mandatory reporters in Wisconsin, including doctors and teachers — but not youth prison guards. The FBI is currently investigating allegations of widespread abuse at the prison. Current and former inmates have filed two federal lawsuits challenging conditions at the prison. The GOP-controlled Legislature has yet to pass anything addressing the prison.
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The state Supreme Court says a man convicted in a decades-old homicide isn’t entitled to DNA testing. Police found Christopher Mohr dead in Grafton in 1982. A jury eventually convicted Jeffrey Denny and his brother, Kent, of killing Mohr. They were sentenced to life in prison. Jeffrey Denny filed a motion in 2014 seeking DNA testing of evidence from the scene. A judge denied the motion but a state appeals court reversed him last year. A divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the judge correctly denied the testing request, saying the evidence against Jeffrey Denny was extensive and the idea that DNA tests might cause investigators or a jury to reject that evidence is just conjecture. Denny’s attorney, Keith Findley of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, had no immediate comment.
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