News 05.09.17
9 May 2017 News
One person is seriously injured following a two vehicle head-on collision in Fond du Lac County. The accident happened Monday morning around 5:50 a.m. on State Highway 23, east of County Highway UU, in the Town of Empire. Investigation shows a westbound vehicle, driven by an 18-year-old Sheboygan man, was attempting to pass a semi-tractor trailer unit in a passing zone when he struck an oncoming vehicle. The driver of the oncoming vehicle, a 39-year-old Jackson man, was transported to ThedaCare Regional Medical Center in Neenah with serious injuries. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Captain Ryan Waldschmidt says the at-fault driver has been booked into the Fond du Lac County Jail on a probation hold. Police are still investigating whether the driver was under the influence of drugs or other impairments and will request additional criminal charges when the investigation in complete.
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A vehicle that had been stolen nearly a year ago is recovered in a pond in Fond du Lac County. On Saturday afternoon the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office was called to the area of Ledgetop Drive and Lac Vue Court, in the town of Empire, for a report of a possible vehicle fully submerged in a private pond. A search of the vehicle and pond did not locate any victims. The Dive Team then assisted Whealon’s towing in removing the vehicle from the pond. The 1998 Plymouth Breeze car had been stolen from the city of Fond du Lac last July.
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Gov. Scott Walker is making a final push to move the state’s 250,000 public workers to a self-insurance model despite facing an uphill fight. Walker says his administration negotiated self-insurance contracts that could generate an additional $60 million for the state to invest in education. Under the plan, the state would contract with health insurance companies to administer the program instead of purchasing insurance from HMOs. But the Legislature’s powerful Joint Finance Committee, which must approve the contracts, hasn’t shown interest. Republican Sen. Luther Olsen of Ripon says he doesn’t think there are enough votes to pass it. Some lawmakers have worried it’d lead to job losses in the insurance industry, which Walker has disputed. The committee has 21 days to reject Walker’s proposal.
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The state Department of Justice says a preliminary tally shows people around Wisconsin may have turned over a record amount of unused medications during a drug take-back day last month. The DOJ says preliminary estimate people dropped off 66,039 pounds of medications at more than 300 receptacles around the state during drug take-back events April 29. The record is 64,247 pounds, set on a take-back day in spring 2016. The drugs have been secured in semi-trailers for transport to Covanta Energy Corporation in Indianapolis, where the drugs will be incinerated. Covanta Energy will provide the official weight of the drugs. DOJ spokesman Johnny Koremenos says the preliminary number has been slightly lower than the official weight for the last four take-back days.
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Milwaukee prosecutors have filed charges against a man suspected in the 2013 death of a 27-year-old woman. The Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office says 42-year-old Kris Zocco has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide, hiding a corpse, and strangulation and suffocation. Authorities say Kelly Dwyer was last seen entering Zocco’s apartment on Oct. 11, 2013. Investigators found Dwyer’s body in May 2015 in a field in Jefferson County, about 45 minutes west of Milwaukee. Zocco is serving an 18-year sentence for possession of child pornography. An attorney for Zocco is not listed in courts records.
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The wife of a Wisconsin man who killed two of her co-workers, a police detective and an attorney says she knew the minute she saw her husband walk into the bank where she worked that something bad was about to happen. Naly Vang says her husband, Nengmy Vang, was dressed in a suit, atypical for his cheese factory job, and demanded she sign divorce papers March 22. He snarled “Do you want to die now?” and left. Vang says she knew her husband would return with a gun and kill her. She fled the bank in Rothschild. Vang returned and fatally shot her co-workers, then killed her attorney in nearby Schofield and a detective in Weston. Nengmy Vang died at a hospital following a shootout with police.
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