News 01.19.18
19 January 2018 News
A defendant accused of initiating a fatal police standoff at a Neenah motorcycle shop will be allowed to represent himself at his upcoming trial after a judge allowed the ninth and tenth lawyers assigned to the case to withdraw. A two-week trial for Brian Flatoff is expected to begin March 5, more than two years after the standoff at Eagle Nation Cycles. The standoff on December 15, 2015 ended when police mistakenly shot and killed one of the hostages. Flatoff is facing 16 charges, including two counts of attempted homicide and felony murder. He’s accused of shooting at officers and of initiating the sequence of events which led to the death of Michael Funk. A Winnebago County judge approved a motion Wednesday allowing the attorneys to withdraw.
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A Fond du Lac man convicted of reckless homicide in the heroin overdose death of a Fond du Lac woman is going to prison. At a sentencing hearing Wednesday afternoon Fond du Lac judge Richard Nuss sentenced 42 year old Joshua Asencio to ten years in prison and ten years extended supervision. Police say Ascencio supplied the heroin that led to the overdose death of a 33 year old Fond du Lac woman at a Berger Parkway apartment.
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Opponents say Gov. Scott Walker’s welfare overhaul proposal is a politically tone deaf effort that will do more harm than good. Walker on Thursday called on the Legislature to approve a variety of measures that include tougher work requirements, additional drug testing and a new photo identification requirement for food stamp recipients. Bobby Peterson is director of ABC for Health, a nonprofit law firm that helps people get health care. He says most people agree that welfare reform is needed. But he says Walker’s proposals would largely by a “kick backwards” rather than a “helping hand up.” Democratic Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling calls it a “sad and desperate” attempt to help Walker win re-election this year. Walker and Republican supporters say the measures will help welfare recipients re-enter the workforce.
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State regulators have approved the first of several permits for a Kohler Co. golf course opposed by those concerned about its environmental impact in Sheboygan County. The Department of Natural Resources released documents Wednesday which show wetland losses, potential harm to area waterways, including Lake Michigan, and increased congestion at Kohler-Andrae State Park. The DNR has approved a permit to allow the company to destroy more than three acres of wetland. In exchange, Kohler will create wetlands elsewhere in the Sheboygan and Manitowoc watersheds. Kohler has plans to build a championship-level course on more than 200 acres of forest land, including some in Kohler-Andrae. Kohler also operates the Blackwolf Wolf Run and Whistling Straits courses in the area.
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