News 06.23.16
23 June 2016 News
Two people are killed and three injured in a three-vehicle crash in Fond du Lac County. The crash happened Wednesday morning around 11:40 a.m on Interstate 41 north between Military Road and Johnson street. Police have not described exactly how the accident happened, but do say a car, jeep and a semi were involved. The Fond du Lac Fire Department says two of the victims died at the scene. One person was airlifted to a hospital by Flight for Life. Two others were taken by ambulance to a local hospital. All lanes of I-41 northbound were closed between County Road D and Highway 23 westbound for multiple hours. The accident is under investigation.
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Two people are seriously injured following a one vehicle accident in Dodge County. Police say the driver, 34-year-old Ryan Rhadans of Watertown, was operating a vehicle on St. Helena Road in Hustisford when he went off the road at a curve. The vehicle struck an embankment and vaulted into a tree. Rhadans was flown to Aurora Medical Center in Summit. A passenger in the vehicle, 33-year-old Timothy Bradfield of Juneau, was flown to Froedert Hospital in Milwaukee. The accident took place Monday and remains under investigation.
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Police say one person is found dead after crews put out a fire at group home in Appleton. Another person was treated for smoke inhalation early Wednesday. Sgt. Dave Lund says everyone else who lives in the group home is OK. Firefighters responded to the home about 6 a.m. The state fire marshal is investigating, which is standard procedure if a death is involved.
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A council representing the eight Great Lakes states votes to allow Waukesha, Wisconsin, unprecedented access to Lake Michigan as its drinking water source. The city of 70,000 in the Milwaukee suburbs won unanimous approval Tuesday from eight states that are members of a regional compact designed to prevent water raids from afar. Waukesha is only 17 miles from Lake Michigan but lies just outside the Great Lakes watershed boundary. It needed unanimous approval from the compact states to draw water from the lake. The city says its groundwater is tainted with radium. The council approved several amendments designed to ensure that conditions it placed on Waukesha’s application could be enforced.
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Gov. Scott Walker picks two appeals court judges and an attorney as finalists for an appointment to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Walker on Wednesday announced the finalists, taken from a list of five semifinalists. The finalists are 2nd District Appeals Court Judge Mark Gundrum, 3rd District Appeals Court Judge Thomas Hruz and attorney Dan Kelly. Gundrum is a former Republican state lawmaker who served with Walker in the Assembly. Walker named Hruz to the appeals court in 2014. Kelly is an attorney who defended Republicans’ 2011 redistricting plan. Two other semifinalists who did not make Walker’s final list were Jefferson County Circuit Judge Randy Koschnick and Marinette County Circuit Judge James Morrison. Whoever Walker selects will replace Justice David Prosser, who is retiring July 31.
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A Wisconsin appeals court upholds the life sentence of a teenage boy convicted of killing his great-grandmother in 2012. The 2nd District Court of Appeals rejected an appeal Wednesday by 15-year-old Antonio Barbeau. He was 13 at the time of the attack and won’t be eligible for release until he’s 50. Barbeau argued that his sentence was cruel and unusual, but the Appeals Court upheld his sentence, affirming a decision by the Sheboygan County Circuit Court. Barbeau pleaded no contest to first-degree intentional homicide in the September 2012 death of 78-year-old Barbara Olson. Olson was struck with a hatchet and a hammer in her Sheboygan Falls home. Another 13-year-old boy, Nathan Paape, was convicted as an accomplice and also sentenced to life in prison.
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Wisconsin State Fair officials are installing metal detectors at West Allis fairground entrance gates for the first time in order to ensure the safety of summer fairgoers. Officials who made the announcement this week say the metal detectors might slow things down a little bit for the thousands of people who will attend the State Fair from Aug. 4 to 14, but they noted that safety is their top priority. Organizers do not allow weapons of any kind on the fairgrounds. Summerfest CEO Don Smiley says he decided to add metal detectors after coordinated terrorist attacks hit Paris in November. Additional cameras also will be added throughout the fairgrounds, allowing security to have more than 200 vantage points during the State Fair.
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