News 9.27.17
27 September 2017 News
A Fond du Lac woman dies after what appears to be accidental drowning. A 911 call came in to the Fond du Lac County Communications Center around 4:30 p.m. Monday afternoon. The caller stated there was an unresponsive female in a residential swimming pool, located at W7168 Briar Ct. in the Town of Byron. Resuscitation efforts by the first responders and bystanders were unsuccessful, and the woman was later pronounced dead at the scene. Police have identified her as 58-year-old Tammy K. Eichhorn. The Sheriff’s Office was assisted at the scene by Oakfield First Responders as well as the City of Fond du Lac Ambulance.
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The Fond du Lac High School principal says a threat made on Facebook at the Homecoming football game Friday night was not credible. Principal Matt Steinbarth sent a letter to parents Sunday evening stating that at the end of the game police and school officials became aware of what he described as an electronic threat. Steinbarth did not say in the letter what the threat involved. He said police were able to identify the person who made the threat and determined it was not credible and that the person who made the threat was not at the game. He says at no time were students in any danger.
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A full federal appeals court hears arguments about whether investigators coerced a confession from a Wisconsin inmate featured in the “Making a Murderer” series. If they rule he was coerced, he could go free. Several judges at the 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to arguments that investigators manipulated Brendan Dassey’s into saying what they wanted him to say. The appeals court has seven judges. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 after telling detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill photographer Teresa Halbach. Judge Diane Wood said watching a video showing how investigators questioned Dassey made her “skin crawl.” She says they fed him answers. But Diane Sykes and several other judges sounded unconvinced that investigators went too far. A ruling is expected within several weeks.
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All but a handful of workers are losing their jobs at Rexnord Corp.’s Indianapolis factory nearly a year after industrial bearings plant’s closing was announced. Union officials say about 65 employees had their final shifts Tuesday, leaving 11 union members who will be wrapping work as production is shifted to factories in Monterrey, Mexico, and McAllen, Texas. The plant had about 350 workers when Milwaukee-based Rexnord announced the closing plans last October. President Donald Trump twice made Twitter posts blasting Rexnord’s plans, similar to his attacks on big layoffs at a nearby Carrier Corp. factory. But Rexnord never backed off. United Steelworks Local 1999 president Robert James says the latest job cuts were inevitable and the union doesn’t know when the factory will completely close.
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