News 8.2.17
2 August 2017 News
A review of the records shows a Campbellsport woman who drowned in a backyard swimming pool was scheduled to make a Fond du Lac Court appearance Monday. Thirty six year old Jessica Meyer was pronounced dead at the hospital Friday, a day after she was pulled from an above ground pool in the backyard of her Campbellsport home. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says investigators are talking with witnesses and waiting for toxicology tests. He says alcohol and possibly drugs were factors. Meyer was scheduled to appear in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Monday for a plea and sentencing hearing on multiple charges including child neglect, recklessly endangering safety, bail jumping and drug related charges.
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Authorities say a 28-year-old Oshkosh man was fatally shot by police after he drove a car at an officer. Oshkosh Police Chief Dean Smith says Isaiah Tucker was pronounced dead at a hospital after he was shot early Monday. Authorities were called about someone trying to take a woman’s vehicle. When two officers arrived, the car crashed through the garage door and got stuck in the yard. Smith says as one officer tried to remove Tucker he accelerated toward the other officer, who opened fire. Tucker fled in the vehicle and was found hiding in a shed, suffering from gunshot wounds. Both officers were wearing body cameras. The cameras were turned over to the state Division of Criminal Investigation, which is investigating. The officers were placed on standard administrative leave.
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A team of scientists led by a UW Oshkosh geologist digs up a promising new hypothesis to explain the densest collection of dinosaur bones discovered to date. The new study, published in the journal Peer, uses fossil and chemical analysis to better understand the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry in central Utah. UW Oshkosh geologist, Joseph Peterson says for decades scientists have studied the origin of the bones, hypothesizing the dinosaurs were poisoned, died from drought or got stuck in the mud. For the past five years Peterson’s team has surveyed the quarry and excavated more than 50 bones. Peterson says chemical analysis and microscopic study suggest the quarry represents numbers mortality events, which brought the dinosaurs to the site over time, rather than a single, fatal event.
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Wisconsin Republicans who helped close the deal to bring electronics giant Foxconn to the United States are looking to tout their involvement through a new burst of online advertising. Both House Speaker Paul Ryan and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker launched digital ad campaigns Tuesday. Walker spearheaded negotiations with Taiwan-based Foxconn and called on Ryan to meet with company officials, which plan to invest $10 billion on a display panel plant in Ryan’s southeast Wisconsin congressional district. Both Ryan and Walker are up for re-election next year. Walker on Friday toured the state to talk about the plant and the promised 13,000 jobs to be hired over six years. Critics have questioned $3 billion in state incentives and whether Foxconn will follow through on its promises.
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An appeals court says internet service providers’ child pornography tips are reliable enough to justify search warrants. The case stems from a tip Tumbler.com gave the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2015. Tumbler reported it had detected photos of child pornography that the center traced to Samuel Silverstein of Glendale. Police obtained a search warrant for Silverstein’s house and found videos of child pornography. Silverstein said he posted photos from the videos to Tumbler. He argued the Tumbler tip was unreliable because it didn’t identify the informant and therefore required police corroboration. The 1st District Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that tips from internet providers are essentially tips from identified citizen informants. Silverstein’s attorney, Matthew Pinix, says he may appeal to the state Supreme Court.
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