News 05.30.18
30 May 2018 News
A Ripon man is scheduled to go on trial this fall on charges of child sex assault and manufacturing methamphetamine. The three day jury trial for 23 year old Kyle Erdmann is set to begin September 18. A plea and sentencing hearing is scheduled for August 28. Ripon police chief Bill Wallner says Erdmann is accused of manufacturing meth at his grandmother’s senior living apartment while she was living in Alabama for the winter. He is also accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
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A prosecutor says no charges will be filed against five Appleton police officers involved in a man’s deadly shooting earlier this month. Outagamie County District Attorney Melinda Tempelis saysy the man had pointed a shotgun toward officers and urged them to fire at him. Tempelis says the officers feared “imminent death or great bodily harm,” and that their use of deadly force was justified. Fifty-year-old David Robinson was shot by police outside his Appleton home on May 7. The DA says Robinson held a shotgun and yelled “shoot me” and “kill me” at officers before he was shot. Robinson also yelled, “I’m loading this.” Tempelis says the investigation showed his shotgun was not loaded. No officers were hurt. The officers will return to active duty.
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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel says the state Department of Justice has now sent all untested sexual assault evidence kits to private laboratories for analysis. Schimel made the announcement Tuesday, countering criticism that DOJ is moving too slowly to finish testing. The attorney general began a project in 2016 to test thousands of sexual assault kits sitting on police department and hospital shelves. The DOJ has identified 6,800 untested kits and is working to test 4,122 of them. The agency chose not to test kits in cases where the victim wouldn’t consent to analysis or there’s already been a conviction in the case. According to the DOJ website, testing had been completed on 1,724 kits as of May 4. About 60 kits had yielded DNA hits in the FBI’s database.
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Wisconsin dairy farmers have broken their streak of year-over-year production increases. Wisconsin farmers produced about 2.5 billion pounds of milk last month, down 0.6 percent from 2017, The U.S. Department of Agriculture said. It’s the second time in almost four years that producers haven’t surpassed the previous year’s production record. Bob Cropp, professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says the slowdown in production is good for milk prices, but the slow down may also be due to some farmers exiting the business because milk prices have been low for the last three years due to an abundance of milk on the market. Some experts believe milk prices may reach $17 per 100 pounds by November. Cropp says farmers were receiving less than $14 at the beginning of the year. There were 5,000 fewer cows in the state compared to last year, according to the USDA report.
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