News 07.06.17
6 July 2017 News
One person is injured following a motorcycle crash in Fond du Lac County. The incident happened July 4th at 2:00pm on Thill Road, south of Vielbig Road, in the Town of Oakfield. Investigation shows the driver, 49-year-old Carl Hoffmann of Sheboygan, was traveling southbound on Thill Road when he failed to negotiate a 90 degree curve. Hoffmann laid the motorcycle down, pinning him underneath as it slid across the roadway and entered the south ditch. He was flown to Theda Medical Center in Neenah with serious but non-life threatening injuries. He was not wearing a helmet.
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Three people are safe after their pontoon boat was swept by the strong current on the Fox River into a dam in Neenah. The Winnebago County Sheriff’s Department says it happened around 9 p.m. Monday when the three people aboard the boat tried to retrieve a dinghy that was stuck in a safety cable near the dam near the Oak Street Bridge. One person was able to use the safety cable to pull himself to safety. Two others were pulled through the dam but made it to shore with only minor injuries. The pontoon sustained serious damage.
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The head of a southern Wisconsin milling and ethanol company where five people were killed in an explosion says it will be rebuilt with the best available technology for safety and efficiency. Didion Milling CEO John Didion told the Cambria Village Board on Monday night that the milling facility, which was severely damaged in the May 31 explosion, will be torn down starting next week. He says work at the company’s nearby ethanol plant can resume not long after that’s done. Didion says he still doesn’t know what caused the blast. Federal regulators are still investigating. In the meantime, Didion says he’s been reaching out to local employers to try to find work for his displaced workers while he pays their wages until he can call them back to work.
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The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is poised to vote on raising student fees and housing rates. The regents are scheduled to vote on the system’s 2017-18 budget today during a meeting at UW-Madison. The budget keeps resident undergraduate tuition frozen as per a legislative mandate. But it calls for raising student fees by an average of 2.6 percent across the system’s four-year schools with changes ranging from nothing at UW-Green Bay to $72 at UW-Milwaukee. The system’s two-year schools would see an average fee increase of 3 percent. Housing rates at four-year schools would increase an average of 2.6 percent as well, with increases ranging from nothing at UW-Platteville and UW-River Falls to $521 at UW-Eau Claire.
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A Green Bay police officer is accused of forging his ex-wife’s signature to sell their car. 34-year-old Michael C. Jeanquart, of Denmark, made his initial court appearance Wednesday on one felony count of forgery. The criminal complaint alleges he forged the signature of his ex-wife on the title of their 2010 Kia Forte sedan after she told him not to. The complaint says the officer admitted to a detective that he signed his ex-wife’s name after he found a buyer for the car. It says he needed money quickly. She told the detective she didn’t object to him selling the car, and would have signed the title when she returned from a trip to Florida, but objected to him signing her name.
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