News 07.08.16
8 July 2016 News
One person is killed and two others injured following a two vehicle crash in Waushara County. The accident happened Thursday morning just before 10 a.m. on State Road 21 by the intersection of County Road Z in the Town of Marion. Sheriff Jeffrey Nett says an eastbound vehicle crossed the centerline and struck a westbound vehicle head on. The driver of the eastbound vehicle was an individual from Minnesota and pronounced dead at the scene. The westbound vehicle had two occupants, both from Missouri. Nett says one was seriously injured while the other suffered non-life threatening injuries. Both were transported to Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah. The accident remains under investigation.
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The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says she was shocked and disappointed to hear the flu mist will not be available this fall. Health officials say the nasal spray should not be used based on new data showing the mist was not very effective at preventing flu from 2013 to 2016. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, last season the nasal flu vaccine had no protective benefit for children. She says it’s disheartening to see data suggesting that one flu vaccine is not working as well as expected. However, Mueller says the data shows the flu shot does work. Mueller says she hopes this news about the flu mist doesn’t discourage people from getting the flu shot this fall.
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The Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault estimates that nearly half of the state’s counties do not have nurses available to perform forensic exams for sexual assault cases, leading people to travel long distances for such testing. While hospitals can get state funding to cover the exams, a number of non-reimbursable costs are associated with them. Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel acknowledges that the system partly relies on the generosity of hospitals “because it’s frankly a money loser for them.” Green Lake County detective Patti Crump says traveling is not only a strain on the victim, but is also bad for evidence collection. Schimel said he would look at the possibility of securing grant money to cover transportation costs of sending nurses to convenient locations for victims.
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Investigators are trying to determine how a prison inmate in Green Bay died. State Corrections Department spokesman Tristan Cook said 34-year-old Green Bay Correctional Institution inmate Francisco Flores-Rocha died on July 4. The Brown County Sheriff’s Department issued a news release Wednesday saying the agency was asked to investigate the death. The release offered no details of the circumstances surrounding Flores-Rocha’s death other than to say it doesn’t appear foul play was involved. Sheriff’s Lt. Jim Valley declined to offer any details when reached by phone, citing the pending investigation. Online court records indicate a Kenosha County jury found Flores-Rocha guilty of attempted first-degree intentional homicide with a dangerous weapon in 2004. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison and 10 years on extended supervision.
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The Wisconsin Department of Justice and multiple local police departments have made nearly 100 arrests in a national sweep targeting internet child sex predators. The DOJ announced Thursday that the agency along with over 40 local and federal law enforcement agencies made 87 arrests in Wisconsin during a week of participating in Operation Broken Heart. The crackdown was conducted in April and May. It targeted offenders who possess, manufacture and distribute child pornography; use the internet to entice children into sex; or engage in child prostitution or child sex tourism. More than 3,000 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies participated. The operation resulted in 1,368 arrests.
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The lawyer for a homeless man accused of pushing an American student into the Tiber River in Rome says his client wasn’t the only person on the riverbank at the time. Attorney Michele Vincelli says based on surveillance footage of the scene, the dynamic of how Beau Solomon ended up in the water was clear. But Vincelli told reporters as he arrived Thursday for prosecutors’ interrogation of Massimo Galioto that it wasn’t clear who was responsible. “I confirm there were other people on the riverbank in front of the American at the moment he fell in the water,” he said. Solomon’s body was pulled from the river Monday after he was last seen at a bar early Friday, just hours after arriving in Rome for a summer study program.
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