News 04.05.17
5 April 2017 News
One person is killed and another seriously injured following a car versus tree accident in Fond du Lac County. The accident happened Tuesday morning around 8:20 a.m. at the intersection of Helena Street and East Main Street in the Village of Campbellsport. Investigation shows the vehicle was traveling northbound on Helena Street at a high rate of speed when it left the roadway and struck a tree. The passenger, an 87-year-old Campbellsport woman, died at the scene. The driver, a 90-year-old Campbellsport man, was extricated from the vehicle and transported to St. Agnes Hospital with life threatening injuries. Both were wearing seatbelts. The accident remains under investigation.
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The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office says a body is found in Little Lake Butte des Morts The body was found Tuesday afternoon, four days after 50-year-old Mark Graham of Neenah disappeared. His boat was found running in circles near the Ninth Street boat landing Saturday. The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office dive team and DNR had been searching the lake since early Saturday afternoon, and searched the lake Monday night with sonar equipment to help them narrow their search.
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The largest high-pressure diecast machine in North America is unveiled Monday at Fond du lac’s Mercury Marine. A company press release says it took 18 over sized truckloads to ship to Fond du Lac, but now, Merc is ready to put the new machine to work. Merc president John Pfeifer says the diecasting machine will provide Mercury the opportunity to cast more efficiently and it’s expand its portfolio to non-marine partners.
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A Wisconsin man who was the subject of a manhunt across parts of that state and Illinois in 2015 after he killed another man is sentenced to life in prison. Thirty-four-year-old Andrew Obregon pleaded guilty in January to first-degree homicide and other charges in a plea deal with prosecutors under which numerous other charges were dropped. He was sentenced Tuesday. Obregon was accused of killing 37-year-old Tywon Anderson over a drug deal in September 2015, dumping his body in a cornfield and then eluding capture for weeks before being arrested in Illinois.
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Attorney General Brad Schimel and crime victim advocates are introducing a constitutional amendment guaranteeing crime victim rights. The Wisconsin Constitution already provides victims with a host of rights. The new amendment duplicates much of the current language but adds a number of new rights, including the right to be treated with dignity, the right to privacy, the right to refuse deposition and discovery requests from defendants’ attorneys and timely notice if the defendant is released. Other states, including California, Illinois and both Dakotas, have adopted constitutional amendments. Supporters call the amendments “Marsy’s Law” for California college student Marsalee “Marsy” Nicholas, who was killed by an ex-boyfriend in 1983. Her brother, Henry Nicholas, has bankrolled an effort to put such amendments in place across the country.
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