News 11.30.16
30 November 2016 News
Twelve residents of an apartment complex near Waupun are displaced following an apartment fire. The fire was reported Tuesday afternoon around 12:30 pm at the Wish U Well Inn on the S. Frontage Road, outside of Waupun. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Sgt. Paul Rottscholl says one apartment was damaged by fire while a second apartment suffered smoke damage. No one was home at the apartment where the fire occurred. The cause of the fire is currently unknown. The Waupun, Alto and Brandon/Fairwater Fire Departments assisted the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office at the scene.
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A correctional officer at the Waupun Correctional Institution is released from the hospital after she was attacked and stabbed by an inmate. The 20 year old officer received 25 stitches to repair 22 puncture wounds caused by what was described as a sharpened pen insert. The female officer was attacked by inmate Daniel Pickett in his Waupun prison cell Thanksgiving evening before other correctional officers were able to intervene and subdue the inmate using pepper spray. The victim was treated at Waupun Memorial Hospital for puncture wounds to an arm, hand and face. Pickett is serving a 40 year prison sentence for attempted first degree intentional homicide. Following the attack Pickett was transferred to the Columbia Correctional Institution at Portage.
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One person is injured following a truck vs farm tractor accident in Fond du Lac County. The accident happened Monday evening around 5:20 pm on USH 151, south of Thill Road, in the Town of Oakfield. Investigation shows a northbound pick up truck was following too close to a north bound farm tractor pulling a manure spreader. The truck driver struck the tractor and was trapped in his vehicle following the impact. He was extricated and transported to St. Agnes Hospital with non life threatening injuries. The driver of the tractor was not injured. The appropriate lighting and implement of husbandry required reflectors were on the farm tractor and manure spreader.
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Gov. Scott Walker is asking the U. S. Department of Agriculture for help with crop losses suffered by producers in 10 Wisconsin counties due to freezing temperatures last May. Walker is seeking a disaster designation which would make low-interest loans available to the producers. Frost and freezing temperatures on the nights of May 13 and 14 affected apples, strawberries, hops and other perennial crops that had started to bud or blossom. All the counties involved experienced harvest losses of 30 percent or greater. The governor’s office says Walker waited until the harvest to make the request so the extent of the losses could be determined. The counties included in the request are Chippewa, Columbia, Eau Claire, Jackson, Jefferson, Pierce, Polk, Sauk, St. Croix, and Trempealeau.
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Hunters killed nearly 197,000 deer during Wisconsin’s traditional nine-day gun season this month, down 6 percent from last year’s harvest. The Department of Natural Resources released preliminary figures on Tuesday that show hunters killed 196,785 deer statewide, down from 198,057 last year. They did kill more antlered deer this year than last, taking 97,892 animals compared with 92,610 in 2015. The northern forest zone was the only region where hunters killed more deer in total than last, taking 32,400 deer compared with 25,444. The DNR reports that it has sold 598,867 gun deer licenses through the end of the nine-day season on Sunday. That’s down about 13,510 licenses from the same point last year.
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Federal and state health officials say a multistate outbreak of salmonella bacteria that is resistant to several drugs has been linked to infected dairy bull calves purchased in Wisconsin. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 21 people have been infected in eight states from Jan. 11 through Oct. 24. Eight of the 21 people sickened were hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported. Those who were sickened ranged in age from 1 year to 72. Wisconsin has the most cases with 12 people infected in eight counties. The CDC says its investigation identified dairy bull calves from livestock markets in Wisconsin as the likely source of infections. Minnesota and South Dakota each have two cases and California, Iowa, Idaho, Missouri and Oklahoma each have one.
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