News 04.13.17
13 April 2017 News
The boyfriend of a woman found dead following a house fire in Princeton is charged in her death. Prosecutors say Antonio Contreras has admitted shooting Grace Reiter-Rudolph in the head several times before he set fire to their house last month. A criminal complaint says Contreras was drinking beer and smoking meth before getting into a fight with the victim and shooting her. It says he then poured a flammable liquid on her body and started a fire to conceal the evidence. Contreras was found in Florida several days later walking along a beach. Contreras is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, arson, mutilating a corpse and possession of a firearm by a felon.
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The Green Bay Packers are again today holding a walk-in job fair to fill gameday positions at Lambeau Field. The team needs workers for guest services and security departments. Applicants must be at least 16 years old for the guest services jobs, and at least 18 years old for security positions. The job fair, which began yesterday, will be held today from 3-6pm. Applicants should gather at the fifth floor Terrace Suites at the South End of Lambeau Field for on-site interviews. The Packers ask job-seekers to enter through the Shopko Gate and take the elevators to the fifth floor.
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Republican lawmakers have introduced four bills they say will address homelessness in Wisconsin. Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke and other representatives held a news conference Wednesday with housing advocates from the Wisconsin Coalition Against Homelessness and the Wisconsin Balance of State Continuum of Care. They said homelessness affected nearly 27,000 people last year. One measure would establish an Interagency Council on Homelessness chaired by Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch. Others would allow the state housing authority to pilot a program that prioritizes chronically homeless people on the waitlist for federal housing vouchers and create grants for municipalities to help the homeless find work. Continuum of Care Director Carrie Poser says 5,800 people in Wisconsin are homelessness each night.
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Wisconsin lawmakers have moved a bill that would force guards at Wisconsin’s troubled youth prison to report abuse to the brink of passage in the state Assembly. The state Senate approved the measure last month. The Assembly Committee on Children and Families unanimously approved the bill on Wednesday. The committee approval clears the way for a vote in the full Assembly. The full chamber isn’t expected to reconvene until next month. The FBI is investigating allegations of widespread abuse of juveniles at the prison near Irma. Inmates have filed two federal lawsuits challenging conditions at the prison and demanding improvements. The bill would make juvenile prison guards mandatory child abuse reporters, a move that would protect them from being fired for reporting incidents.
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