News 06.28.17
28 June 2017 News
One person received non life-threatening injuries in a two vehicle crash in Fond du Lac County. Rescue personnel were called to the scene on County Highway G south of Highway GG in the town of Marshfield shortly before 5pm Monday. A preliminary investigation indicates a southbound truck driven by a 23-year-old New Holstein man traveled left of center after looking at his cell phone, striking the back tires of a northbound milk truck which was driven by a 64-year-old Kiel man. The New Holstein man was not wearing his seatbelt and was transported to ThedaCare Regional Medical Center in Neenah for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. The Kiel man was wearing his seatbelt and not injured.
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Taxpayers are going to save money on the D-O-T’s road assistance program. The agency has been offering free help to drivers when they’re stranded in a construction zone. Spokesman David Hunt says State Farm Insurance will sponsor the program for 225-thousand dollars a year. He says that means taxpayers won’t have to cover all of the costs. Safety patrols are used in a number of work zones in the Appleton and Green Bay areas, during different times of the day.
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Assembly Republicans say no progress was made on reaching a state budget deal following a brief, tense meeting with their Senate GOP colleagues. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says Senate and Assembly Republicans met for about 40 minutes Tuesday and there were a “lot of bottom lines” but no progress. He says Senate Republican Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald “spent a lot of time talking at us, seeming angry and then said ‘we’re done.'” Budget committee co-chair John Nygren says it wasn’t likely the Joint Finance Committee would meet on Thursday. Republicans are primarily hung up on how to pay for roads, but there are also disagreements over K-12 education funding and taxes. Gov. Scott Walker has repeatedly said he thinks a deal will be reached soon.
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The Wisconsin Department of Justice is asking a federal appeals court to keep an inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” behind bars pending an appeal of a ruling overturning his conviction. Brendan Dassey was sentenced to life in 2007 in connection with Teresa Halbach’s death. Dassey told detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill her. A federal judge overturned his conviction last year, ruling investigators coerced Dassey into confessing. A three-judge panel from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling last week, prompting Dassey’s attorneys to seek his immediate release. DOJ attorneys argued in a filing Monday that Dassey should remain in prison because they plan to appeal to the full 7th Circuit, and a jury found Dassey committed heinous crimes.
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Officials say tears in the fabric envelope of a hot-air blimp caused it to crash near the U.S. Open at Erin Hills in Wisconsin. The preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board on Monday says the airship was returning to the Erin airport June 15 because the winds were too strong. The pilot was approaching the airstrip at an altitude of about 200 feet when he encountered a thermal updraft, which sent the airship up to 500 feet. The pilot tried to release hot air to descend when he heard one fabric panel tear, and then another. The pilot shut off the propane burners, but part of the envelope collapsed around the burners and caught fire. The airship descended nose down and crashed. Pilot Trevor Thompson was seriously injured.
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