News 03.03.17
3 March 2017 News
The Dodge County Sheriff says a Beaver Dam man may still be alive today if he had stayed with his vehicle following a crash. Twenty seven year old Timothy Price was seriously injured when the car he was driving slammed into a utility pole near Beaver Dam Sunday night. Investigators say the crash was alcohol-related, and Sheriff Dale Schmidt says instead of calling 911 and waiting for paramedics to arrive, Price and a passenger ran approximately a half mile to his home where Price died. Schmidt says many times when alcohol is involved, people are not thinking clearly and try to figure out the best action to protect themselves from being arrested, instead of waiting for help. The passenger was transported to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
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Two people are injured, one critically, in a two vehicle crash in Dodge County. The crash happened shortly after 8:30am Thursday on State Highway 33 near Fairfield Road, in the town of Oak Grove. A preliminary investigation shows that a 19 year old woman lost control of her car on snow covered State Highway 33 near the intersection with Fairfield Road, crossed the center line and was struck by a car that had been following a Dodge County plow truck. The woman was flown by helicopter to the hospital with life threatening injuries. The 61 year old male driver of the second car was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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A father accused of leaving his infant daughter in the car while he spent hours inside a Menasha bar is booked into the Winnebago County Jail. Employees of the Redliner bar called police about 3 p.m. Wednesday afternoon for help in handling an intoxicated patron. Authorities say the 53-year-old man had arrived at the bar about noon and employees refused to serve him because he was so intoxicated. Police say the man made statements about checking on his girl. That’s when employees went to his vehicle and found his two-and-a-half-month old daughter. The child was taken to a hospital for evaluation and turned over to her mother.
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A state Senate committee approves bills that would grant people who overdose on opioids legal immunity and lay out money for more state drug agents. The first measure would ensure heroin users who overdose would be immune from prosecution for drug possession and ensure their probation, parole or extended supervision could not be revoked for possession. The second bill would allocate $840,000 over the next two years for four additional drug agents within the state Department of Justice. The votes move the immunity bill to the full Senate and the drug agents bill to the Legislature’s budget committee. The bills are part of an 11-bill package Rep. John Nygren has introduced to slow opioid addiction. Gov. Scott Walker called a special legislative session in January to pass the package.
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New restrictions to a bill in the Wisconsin Legislature that would make more experimental drugs available to terminally ill patients don’t go far enough to address concerns of the state’s doctors who oppose the measure. The proposal has bipartisan support but faces strong opposition from the Wisconsin Medical Society. That group representing doctors argues that quickly approving experimental drugs could give patients false hope. Its sponsor Republican Rep. Pat Snyder wants to require that the patient seeking experimental drugs first be ineligible or unable to participate in a clinical trial within 100 miles of their home. But Wisconsin Medical Society lobbyist Mark Grapentine says that doesn’t go far enough to address concerns the group has.
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The state Department of Natural Resources plans to present final revisions to the state’s long-term chronic wasting disease plan to its board in December. A stakeholder committee has developed more than 60 tweaks to the existing 15-year plan. Their seven top priorities including informing the public on deer carcass transportation restrictions, improving public understanding of the disease and collaborating with outside researchers. Lower-priority recommendations include double-fending for infected deer farms, local herd reduction efforts and maintaining the state’s current hunting seasons. DNR Big Game Section Chief Bob Nack told the board Wednesday that his staff will spend the rest of the year deciding which recommendations should go into the new plan and present them to the board after deer hunting ends in December.
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