News 11.18.17
18 November 2016 News
A manufacturing company based in Mayville is again recognized as being one of the largest closely held companies in the state. Mayville Engineering Company was named to the Wisconsin 75 program, an annual listing of the largest closely held companies headquartered in Wisconsin. The program recognizes business contributions to the communities in which the firms are located, the people who build the business, and the overall Wisconsin economy. This is the 12th year that MEC has been recognized on the Wisconsin 75 list. MEC has manufacturing facilities in Mayville, Beaver Dam, Neillsville and Wautoma, and also operates 17 facilities in five states.
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A Beaver Dam woman law enforcement is calling a major heroin and cocaine dealer in Dodge County makes her initial Dodge County Circuit Court appearance. Bail was set at $250,000 cash for 27 year old Lacresha A. P. Lightfoot. She’s charged with 9 counts of manufacturing/delivery of heroin, 6 counts of manufacturing/delivery of cocaine, and 1 count of delivery of a counterfeit narcotic drug. On Monday evening, the Dodge County Drug Task Force arrested Lightfoot following a traffic stop in Beaver Dam. Sheriff Dale Schmidt says Lightfoot is known to have operated her drug distribution ring from several locations throughout the City of Beaver Dam. Schmidt says Lightfoot had several associates working for her in her drug distribution business and law enforcement will be working to bring charges against them as well. A preliminary hearing for Lightfoot has been scheduled for November 23rd.
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Authorities say a Wisconsin bus driver won’t be charged criminally in the death of a 12-year-old boy. Police say drug and alcohol tests for the 61-year-old Appleton man who was driving the bus came back negative. Seventh-grader Justin Johnson was struck and killed by the bus on Sept. 6 as he walked home with friends after the first day of class in Kaukauna. The boy attended River View Middle School. Police say the bus driver faces a citation for failing to yield to a pedestrian. The citation carries a fine of $98.
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License sales for Wisconsin’s 2016 gun deer hunts are trailing last year’s totals with two days to go until the traditional nine-day season opens. The state held its two-day gun youth hunt in October. The nine-day season opens Saturday and runs through Nov. 27. Also on tap are metro hunts in November and December, a December antlerless hunt and a late-December hunt in southern Wisconsin. The latest figures from the state Department of Natural Resources show the agency had sold 379,171 gun licenses as of Tuesday. That compares to 392,138 licenses sold as of the Tuesday before last year’s nine-day hunt. Thousands of hunters typically purchase their licenses today before the nine-day season Saturday opener. The DNR sold nearly 60,000 licenses on the Friday before last year’s opener.
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Five school districts and 99 schools in Wisconsin have been slapped with failing grades, according to report cards released by the state Department of Public Instruction. Eighty-two percent of schools and 91 percent of districts scored three or more stars, meaning they met or exceeded expectations. The five districts that failed to meet expectations, which is the lowest score, were Racine, Bayfield, Cambria-Friesland, Cassville and Menominee Indian. The state Department of Public Instruction released the report cards Thursday. There were no report cards last year because the Legislature was still overhauling the system to define what is reported and how. Schools have to be in the lowest category for two consecutive years before they face any sanctions.
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Attorneys for a Wisconsin inmate featured in the Netflix series “Making a Murderer” say they’re disappointed that a federal appeals court has blocked his release from prison. Brendan Dassey was convicted in 2007 of raping and killing Teresa Halbach and sentenced to life in prison. A federal judge in August overturned his conviction, saying investigators coerced him into confessing. State attorneys have appealed that ruling. The judge this week ordered Dassey released from prison by 8 p.m. tonight. But a three-judge panel from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the release Thursday, saying Dassey must remain behind bars pending the resolution of his appeal. Dassey’s attorneys posted a statement online saying they were “disappointed more than words can say” with the appellate decision.
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