News 06.29.17
29 June 2017 News
The FBI determines bone fragments dug up from a yard 27 years ago are not those of a 5-year-old Campbellsport boy who vanished in 1983. Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department Inspector Jim Risseeuw says the bones were determined to have come from animals. That leaves the disappearance of Bobby Joe Fritz still unsolved. The boy was last seen playing outside his Campbellsport home with his siblings on May 14, 1983. Sheboygan County renewed the push to solve the case last year, even though the boy disappeared from neighboring Fond du Lac County. In 1990, authorities dug up the property of a prime suspect in Bobby Joe’s disappearance and recovered four small bones. The man was never charged in the boy’s abduction. He died of cancer in federal prison in 2008.
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A University of Wisconsin Board of Regents member says taxpayer money will not be tapped to cover debts of the financial troubled UW-Oshkosh Foundation. Regent Michael M. Grebe says it would be inappropriate to use taxpayer dollars to cover debts caused by the foundation’s inappropriate real estate projects. Grebe says university officials continue working with foundation leaders to “work through the financial realities” the foundation faces. The state Department of Justice is investigating the real estate projects, which were the subject of a lawsuit the UW System filed in January against former Chancellor Richard Wells and his chief business officer. The lawsuit alleges that they improperly funneled $11 million in university money into the projects through the private foundation.
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Democratic state Sen. Kathleen Vinehout has registered to run for governor, the first step in officially launching a campaign. Vinehout, of Alma, filed the paperwork on June 14 to register a campaign committee. She says she still has not decided whether she’s actually running. Vinehout says the move was done to account for expenses she incurs while traveling the state for a potential run. Vinehout has been in the state Senate since 2007 and ran for governor in the 2012 recall attempt against Gov. Scott Walker. She finished a distant third in the primary and was considering running again in 2014 but decided against it after she was involved in a car crash.
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Wisconsin cranberry growers are making the most of their limited production space. The U-S-D-A confirms record yields for last year that averaged 288 bushels-an-acre, more than 50 barrels higher than the previous year. Wisconsin is far and away the national leader in cranberry production, making almost two thirds of the country’s total product — and that’s almost twice as much as second place Massachusetts. The final numbers show that Wisconsin made a whopping 26-percent more cranberries in 2016 than the previous year.
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Fireworks that were sold in Wisconsin are being recalled after the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission says that they explode unexpectedly after being lit. The recall was issued Tuesday for TNT Red, White, & Blue Smoke fireworks. They fireworks were sold in a bag containing three canisters: one red, one blue and one white. These fireworks were sold at Albertsons, Kroger, Meijer, Target, Wal-Mart and other retailers in Illinois, Ohio, Vermont and Wisconsin from May 2017 through June 2017 for about $5. The recalled product has UPC number 027736036561 appear on the packaging. Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled fireworks and contact America Promotional Events for a full refund.
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