News 04.04.18
4 April 2018 News
A Fox Lake woman is going to prison for covering up the murder of her son’s girlfriend. Sixty five year old Marjorie Jones was sentenced to six years in prison and ten years of extended supervision last week. Her son, Laverne Ware Jr., is charged in the death of his girlfriend and cousin, 27-year-old Sesalie Dixon. Police say Jones knew her son hid Dixon’s body in a truck inside her garage. Ware is scheduled to go on trial in September.
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Fond du Lac police are investigating two abandoned homeless camps discovered this week. Police officers found materials used to make shelters and old mattresses in a wooded area at the dead ends of Monmouth and Vermont streets in Fond du Lac. Last October, a homeless camp was found in a wooded area on Alliant Energy property. Police say there are homeless shelters available in Fond du Lac through the Solutions Center and the Salvation Army also has a warming shelter for people who need a place to sleep.
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Records show Wisconsin taxpayers have paid at least $523,000 over the last decade to settle sexual harassment complaints against state employees. The documents, released in an open records requests, show the sum was paid to settle at least 12 sexual harassment complaints within the Department of Corrections, the Department of Justice, the state Legislature and state universities in Madison and Stevens Point, among other agencies. The Department of Administration records show the payments made from January 2007 to November 2017 ranged from $65,000 to $100,000. DOA spokesman Steve Michels says the total might not be comprehensive because agencies are also able to settle claims on their own. Most of the cases that ended in settlements in the last decade were brought by state employees.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court says an appeal in an environmental case involving a large dairy feedlot should be heard in Waukesha, not Madison. The Supreme Court, in a 5-2 decision Tuesday, agreed with the Department of Natural Resources that the proper venue is Wisconsin Court of Appeals District II, not District IV. The ruling clarifies the right of an appellant to select the venue under changes to Wisconsin statutes in 2011. The case dates from 2012, when Kinnard Farms in Kewaunee County applied to expand in an area where groundwater contamination had created tensions between farmers and non-farmers. The DNR granted the permit. A dispute ensued over the proper venue for the farm’s opponents to appeal. Conservatives typically file in the appeals court in Waukesha, located in the most conservative part of the state, rather than in Madison, a liberal stronghold. The appeal on the merits of the case will now proceed in District II.
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