News 12.19.16
19 December 2016 News
One of three people charged in connection with the death of a 27 year old woman in Fox Lake is bound over for trial. Probable cause was found at a preliminary hearing in Dodge County Circuit Court for 64 year old Marjorie Jones of Fox Lake. She’s charged with one count of harboring/aiding a felon. An arraignment hearing has been scheduled for February 8th. Also charged in the case is Jones’ son, 36 year old Laverne Ware Jr.; and Jones’ husband, 59 year old Vernon Mickey. Ware is charged with hiding a corpse and is expected to face additional charges. Mickey is charged with harboring/aiding a felon. Ware is accused of hiding the body of his dead girlfriend, 27 year old Sesalie Dixon. Ware allegedly hid the body in Jones’ garage inside a pickup truck. Jones and Mickey are accused of knowing Ware had hid the body in the garage. According to a criminal complaint, Mickey contacted Dodge County Central Communications to report a possible homicide at 100 We Go Trail. The complaint says Mickey reported there was a lot of blood in the garage, but he did not see a body, and that Ware’s girlfriend Dixon had been missing since the previous night. Investigators found Dixon’s body in a pickup truck in the garage. An autopsy report revealed Dixon’s death was consistent with homicide. Ware has a preliminary hearing scheduled for December 22nd, while a preliminary hearing for Mickey is scheduled for January 19th.
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Black Creek man is convicted of burglarizing a Mayville church in November 2015. Nineteen year old Tristan Vandeneng pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary in Dodge County Circuit Court. Charges of theft and criminal damage to property were dismissed and read into the record. On November 8th, 2015, Mayville Police responded to a report of an overnight burglary that occurred at Christian Life Fellowship Church. The suspect broke in and took electronics, money, and a safe that contained invaluable papers. The Outagamie County Sheriff’s Office later contacted Mayville Police, saying they discovered the safe and many of the other stolen items in Vandeneng’s apartment during an investigation. A sentencing hearing for Vandeneng is scheduled for April 10th.
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The private Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Health are starting a family medicine residency program at Froedtert Community Memorial Hospital, in an effort to help relieve the shortage of physicians in the specialty. The shortage is most severe in the state’s rural areas but also can been seen in southeastern Wisconsin. The program is scheduled to start this summer. Eventually, it’ll have a total of 18 physicians completing their training. According to Merritt Hawkins, a job placement service for physicians, family-medicine has been the most in-demand medical specialty for the last decade. Ken Simons, senior associate dean for graduate medical education and accreditation at the Medical College, says physicians who complete residency in Wisconsin have a more than 70% chance of staying in the region to practice medicine.
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Wisconsin Republicans gathering soon to cast the state’s 10 Electoral College votes say they aren’t persuaded by a national movement to break ranks in an effort to stop Donald Trump from becoming president. Electoral College members will gather in state capitals across the country on Monday to cast their votes. Trump won Wisconsin and its 10 electoral votes. Wisconsin’s members say they’ve received thousands of emails, phone calls and letters trying to get them to break ranks. But Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman and elector Brad Courtney insists they are proudly sticking by Trump. Longtime Republican activist and elector Mary Buestrin says “Everybody’s on the same page. We’re going to vote for Trump.”
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