News 10.26.17
26 October 2017 News
A semi-truck driver will be cited for following too close in connection with a four vehicle crash on Highway 23 and Whispering Springs Boulevard Sunday night that sent nine people to the hospital. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says the 58 year old semi driver. Kenneth Behr, from Plymouth was not injured in the crash. Klein says the semi struck a pick-up that was attempting to go around an SUV that had slowed to make a left turn into a driveway, causing the pick-up to push the SUV into the oncoming lane of traffic, striking a fourth vehicle. Two occupants of the SUV making the turn, 35 year old Richard Gil and seven year old Ezekiel Gil, both of Fond du Lac received serious injuries in the crash. The pick-up driver and passenger from DeForest were not seriously injured. A passenger in the eastbound vehicle, nine year old Alyse Borowski, of Kohler was critically injured. Klein says she suffered internal injuries and was transported to Children’s Hospital in Milwaukee. Klein says the crash is another reminder of the importance of a Highway 23 expansion project. That stretch of 23 westbound is down to a single lane of traffic.
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Construction work is in full swing on several major building projects following a successful multi-million dollar referendum in the Waupun school district. Superintendent Dr. Tonya Olson, says work started about a week ago on the new parent pick-up/ drop-off site at Meadowview Primary School. Olson says the goal is to get that done to move the parking lot clearing the way for a new gymnasium. Olson says work is also underway on a new library-media center at the SAGES school in Fox Lake. She says construction is underway on classrooms and office space at Rock River Intermediate School.
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Sheriff’s investigators say the deaths of a couple found fatally shot in a vehicle that had veered off a road in Waupaca County appears to be a murder-suicide case. Dispatchers received a report of a vehicle in the ditch with two people who appeared unconscious about 8 a.m. Tuesday in the Town of Royalton. Emergency personnel found a 32-year-old woman behind the wheel and her 51-year-old husband dead of gunshot wounds. Authorities say the two were separated and living apart. Surveillance video from a nearby supper club shows the man getting into his wife’s vehicle, which crashed shortly after it left the parking lot. Officers say an empty handgun holster was found in the man’s vehicle which was left in the parking lot.
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A state senator negotiating with Foxconn to establish a massive electronics plant in Wisconsin says a key vote on a contract was delayed because taxpayer funds could be exposed if the Taiwanese company doesn’t fulfill its end of the deal. Gov. Scott Walker has signed a $3 billion incentives package for Foxconn to build a flat screen manufacturing complex in Mount Pleasant. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is working on a contract to execute the incentives. State Sen. Tim Carpenter says the agency can’t guarantee taxpayer funds will be recouped if Foxconn violates the agreement, due to the deal’s structure. The agency’s CEO, Mark Hogan, has declined to explain why the scheduled vote was delayed. Democrats are pressuring Hogan to release the contract details before any vote.
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