News 06.22.17
22 June 2017 News
In the wake of drug overdose deaths in Georgia, Fond du Lac police and Drug Free Communities of Fond du Lac County are reminding Fond du Lac County residents not to share medications. The warning follows a story out of Georgia, where a small yellow pill which looks to be a prescription drug from a pharmacy, has led to dozens of overdoses and as many as four deaths. The report says in some cases, someone thinking they are legitimate prescriptions is purchasing these drugs off the street. Ellen Sorensen with Drug Free Communities says while the yellow pills have not surfaced in Fond du Lac, police officers have encountered pills of various colors that appear to be a legitimate pharmaceutical. Police Chief Bill Lamb says they are not legitimate and in some instances, they have been deadly.
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The former Mayville police chief has been charged. Christopher MacNeill is scheduled to make his initial Dodge County Circuit court appearance June 26th on charges of misconduct in office and obstructing. MacNeill is accused of falsifying arrest records in 2011 to help the son of a fellow officer get into the army after he was caught giving prescription medication to another student at Mayville High School. MacNeill resigned in March.
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Charges have been filed against a man accused of making terrorist threats at the federal courthouse in Milwaukee. A criminal complaint says 32-year-old Mohamad Hamdan walked into the courthouse June 15 and began yelling in Arabic and English and demanded to see a U.S. marshal. It says Hamdan was given repeated warnings to leave the area after being escorted out of the courthouse, but responded with obscenities and racial slurs. The complaint says that as Hamdan got into a van parked illegally in front of the courthouse and said he would kill everyone, then yelled “bomb.” Prosecutors say marshals pulled Hamdan from the van as he resisted and handcuffed him. Traffic around the courthouse was shut down as a bomb-sniffing dog was brought to the scene.
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At least some Wisconsin farmers will have to plant their crops a second time, after the first ones were damaged by last week’s storms. Almost a dozen tornadoes and a rash of heavy thunderstorms roared through different parts of Wisconsin the last week — and the U-S-D-A says it damaged crops and farm buildings while creating ponds in low lying areas. But in places where it didn’t rain, crops responded well to the heat and humidity — and their conditions got better. The Wisconsin Ag Statistics Service says 71-percent of the state’s corn is rated good to excellent, and 94-percent of the crop has emerged from the ground — eight days later than last year.
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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is urging Republican senators to reject a Medicaid expansion he turned down but that most states accepted under the health care law passed by former President Barack Obama. Walker said in a statement Wednesday that there are “no excuses” for Republicans in Congress not to repeal the law and not allow the Medicaid expansion to grow. Walker’s decision to reject the Medicaid expansion has cost the state about $690 million in federal money since 2014. Instead, Walker created a hybrid system for covering low-income people in Wisconsin that resulted in everyone earning less than the poverty level having insurance. Democratic state Assembly Leader Peter Barca says Walker is “fighting a losing battle” trying to convince Congress to stop paying for the Medicaid expansion.
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