Frost Advisory Tonight
10/09/09 - Snow is in the forecast for parts of Wisconsin this weekend. The National Weather Service says a big low pressure system is moving east along with the U-S-Canadian border – and it will push a strong cold front into Wisconsin tomorrow. There’s a chance of light snow in the northwest tomorrow, with rain or snow in central Wisconsin, and rain elsewhere in the state. Tonight’s lows are supposed to drop below freezing here with a Frost Advisory in effect tonight. A Freeze Watch is also posted for tomorrow night in much of southern Wisconsin – which means whatever growing season is left will come to an end. Forecasters say the area might also get a few snow-flakes. The first trace of snow in southeast Wisconsin is normally seen on October 28th – though the earliest date ever for the first visible snow is September 20th in 1954. Rain and snow are in the forecast through Monday, and cold temperatures are expected to continue well into next week.
Pharmacy Burglary Suspect Waives Prelim
10/09/09 - Probable cause was found to bind a Beaver Dam man over for trial on charges that he broke into a Horicon pharmacy. 33-year-old Nathan G. Davis waived his right to a preliminary hearing yesterday. Davis and 22-year-old Andrew W. Stockwell of Milwaukee are each charged with a felony count of Burglary and a misdemeanor count of Criminal Damage to Property. According to the criminal complaint, an officer responded to an interior motion alarm at the Marshland Pharmacy just after 3am on September 24. Upon arrival, the responding officer saw one suspect armed with a hammer run from the store. After a brief foot chase, Davis was taken into custody. The officer returned to the store and found a second person attempting to leave with a large duffel bag filled with stolen prescription narcotics. Stockwell was allegedly trying to crawl out through the broken out glass doors at the front of the store; he was taken into custody without incident. Stockwell was bound over for trial last week. Both men have arraignment hearings scheduled in the next month.
Brummond Evaluation Ordered
10/09/09 - The preliminary hearing for an 81-year-old Mayville man has been adjourned while his competency to stand trial is evaluated. Kevin Brummond is accused of inappropriately touching an 8-year-old girl in August. He was in Dodge County Court for a hearing Wednesday when his lawyer asked to have the hearing adjourned so Brummond can be evaluated. Brummond is free on a $100,000 signature bond.
Fondy Bus Driver Facing Charges
10/09/09 - A school bus driver in Fond du Lac in facing criminal charges, after he allegedly molested one child and exposed himself to another. The 57-year-old man was in jail yesterday, awaiting a court appearance. He has not been charged yet, but he faces possible counts of exposure and repeated child sexual assault. Police said an elementary student told her parents September 23rd that she saw the bus driver’s genitals. Eight days later, the county social services agency told police that the man had molested another child who did not ride his bus. The man was arrested earlier this week. Police say they’re going through two of his computers to look for child pornography.
Feder Bound Over On Child Porn Charges
10/09/09 - A Watertown man was bound over for trial yesterday on child pornography charges. Craig Feder is charged with two felony counts of possessing nude pictures of a pre-teen girl he met on the internet. The victim’s mother contacted police after finding emails with the content. Eight pictures were reportedly found on Feder’s computer. According to the criminal complaint, the 40-year-old requested photo’s from the victim but said he did not ask for nude photos. Feder faces up to 50 years in prison, if convicted. An arraignment hearing is scheduled for later this month.
Popp Sentenced In Cudahy Fire
10/09/09 - A former Marine will spend his next three Julys in jail for providing the military flare that started a massive fire at the Patrick Cudahy meat plant near Milwaukee. 23-year-old Joshua Popp was also put on three years of probation yesterday, and was told to perform 500 hours of community service. Popp and his 25-year-old brother Curtis both pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless endangerment. Curtis Popp shot the military flare at a family gathering on July fifth – and it landed on top of the Cudahy meat plant. The blaze caused over 50-million-dollars in damage, caused hundreds of residents to evacuate, and put over 18-hundred people out of work for at least a week. Prosecutor Kent Lovern agreed there was no malice involved. He called it an “incredibly stupid act.” Joshua Popp’s lawyer agreed, but said it would not help the community if his client spent time in jail. Curtis Popp will be sentenced October 26th.
Third Teen Sentenced in Break-In
10/09/09 - The final member of a trio of Beaver Dam teens who broke into the Journal Sentinel building in June has been sentenced. 18-year-old Christopher Larson was placed on probation for one year and ordered to perfume community services after pleading to reduced charges of misdemeanor Entry Into A Building. Larson and two other teens entered the building in the early morning hours and broke into a soda machine. Larson told investigators that the door was already open and when he was in the building he thought to himself that he was quote “the stupidest person in the world” and he was committing a “stupid crime that he deserved to get caught for.” The two other accomplices have already received similar sentences.
Sixth OWI For Horicon Man
10/09/09 - A Horicon man was ticketed for his sixth OWI overnight. According to the Dodge County Sheriffs Department, a motorist came across a vehicle in the ditch on Highway 33 in the Town of Beaver Dam around 2:30am this morning. Authorities checked with the registered owner, who said that Chad S. Winter was in possession of the vehicle. Smith was tracked down at his residence and taken into custody for refusing to submit to a breath-test. The 44-year-old was taken to the Beaver Dam Community Hospital for a forced blood draw and then taken to the Dodge County Jail on charges of drunk driving, resisting arrest and parking on the left side of the roadway.
Waupun Seeks Public Comments On Administrator Position
10/09/09 - Waupun residents will have their chance next Tuesday to give their opinion on the city’s City Administrator form of government. Officials will host a forum starting at 6pm at City Hall. The purpose of the meeting is to hear comments from residents about possibly doing away with the position of City Administrator. Since former Administrator Gary Rogers left office in June, the city has been talking over the possibility of keeping the status quo, going to a full-time mayor form of government like Beaver Dam or a City Manager form like Fort Atkinson. Residents will have five minutes each to express their opinion on the situation. However, their will be no dialogue between the council and residents. If you can’t attend the meeting comments can be submitted in writing.
Kohl’s/ Boston Stores Sales Stabilize
10/09/09 - Some of Wisconsin’s largest department stores are getting busier, in another sign that the recession is easing up. Kohl’s of Menomonee Falls reported a five-and-a-half percent sales increase from last September in stores open at least a year. That’s much better than the decline of six-tenths-percent projected by analysts from Retail Metrics. Bon-Ton Stores – which owns Younkers, Herberger’s, Elder-Beerman, and Boston Stores – had a four-point-eight-percent sales drop, better than the projected decline of seven-percent. Many experts say the economy will turn around, but at a low level. A more timely comparison of growth came yesterday, when the U-S Labor Department said new unemployment claims went down 33-thousand from the previous week, to their lowest levels since January.
Minority Of Employers Consider Pay Raises
10/09/09 - Almost a-third of Midwest employers expect to give pay raises next year – but about half are still not sure what they’re going to do. That’s according to M-R-A-The Management Association, which surveyed 576 companies in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa. Twenty-eight of the firms said they would grant raises averaging two-point-nine percent. Another 26-percent said they would either freeze wages-and-salaries, or cut them. Even though the recession may have bottomed out, M-R-A vice president Vicki Vought said employers are still being held back by uncertainty. And she said more companies are looking for creative ways to show top performers that they’re valued, without having to spend money.
Feingold/ Kohl Support Ag Measure
10/09/09 - Wisconsin’s two U-S senators helped approve a new agriculture budget that includes 350-million-dollars in emergency aid for struggling dairy farmers. The Senate sent the 121-billion-dollar ag budget to President Obama yesterday on a 76-to-22 vote. Wisconsin Democrats Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold both voted yes. Kohl helped negotiate the dairy aid, in which 290-million will go directly to farmers and 60-million will buy their dairy products to feed the hungry. Kohl said he trusted that Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack will put the new aid in the right hands. After meeting with California Democrat Barbara Boxer, Vilsack promised the aid would be distributed equitably – which means that larger herds in the West will get the same share as the smaller family farms typically found in Wisconsin. Also yesterday, a bi-partisan group of lawmakers called on Vilsack to spread more payments from the Milk Income Loss Contract program to larger herds. Wisconsin’s smaller farms have gotten the most from that program – which gives federal subsidies when market prices fall below certain levels.
10/09/09 - Snow is in the forecast for parts of Wisconsin this weekend. The National Weather Service says a big low pressure system is moving east along with the U-S-Canadian border – and it will push a strong cold front into Wisconsin tomorrow. There’s a chance of light snow in the northwest tomorrow, with rain or snow in central Wisconsin, and rain elsewhere in the state. Tonight’s lows are supposed to drop below freezing here with a Frost Advisory in effect tonight. A Freeze Watch is also posted for tomorrow night in much of southern Wisconsin – which means whatever growing season is left will come to an end. Forecasters say the area might also get a few snow-flakes. The first trace of snow in southeast Wisconsin is normally seen on October 28th – though the earliest date ever for the first visible snow is September 20th in 1954. Rain and snow are in the forecast through Monday, and cold temperatures are expected to continue well into next week.
Pharmacy Burglary Suspect Waives Prelim
10/09/09 - Probable cause was found to bind a Beaver Dam man over for trial on charges that he broke into a Horicon pharmacy. 33-year-old Nathan G. Davis waived his right to a preliminary hearing yesterday. Davis and 22-year-old Andrew W. Stockwell of Milwaukee are each charged with a felony count of Burglary and a misdemeanor count of Criminal Damage to Property. According to the criminal complaint, an officer responded to an interior motion alarm at the Marshland Pharmacy just after 3am on September 24. Upon arrival, the responding officer saw one suspect armed with a hammer run from the store. After a brief foot chase, Davis was taken into custody. The officer returned to the store and found a second person attempting to leave with a large duffel bag filled with stolen prescription narcotics. Stockwell was allegedly trying to crawl out through the broken out glass doors at the front of the store; he was taken into custody without incident. Stockwell was bound over for trial last week. Both men have arraignment hearings scheduled in the next month.
Brummond Evaluation Ordered
10/09/09 - The preliminary hearing for an 81-year-old Mayville man has been adjourned while his competency to stand trial is evaluated. Kevin Brummond is accused of inappropriately touching an 8-year-old girl in August. He was in Dodge County Court for a hearing Wednesday when his lawyer asked to have the hearing adjourned so Brummond can be evaluated. Brummond is free on a $100,000 signature bond.
Fondy Bus Driver Facing Charges
10/09/09 - A school bus driver in Fond du Lac in facing criminal charges, after he allegedly molested one child and exposed himself to another. The 57-year-old man was in jail yesterday, awaiting a court appearance. He has not been charged yet, but he faces possible counts of exposure and repeated child sexual assault. Police said an elementary student told her parents September 23rd that she saw the bus driver’s genitals. Eight days later, the county social services agency told police that the man had molested another child who did not ride his bus. The man was arrested earlier this week. Police say they’re going through two of his computers to look for child pornography.
Feder Bound Over On Child Porn Charges
10/09/09 - A Watertown man was bound over for trial yesterday on child pornography charges. Craig Feder is charged with two felony counts of possessing nude pictures of a pre-teen girl he met on the internet. The victim’s mother contacted police after finding emails with the content. Eight pictures were reportedly found on Feder’s computer. According to the criminal complaint, the 40-year-old requested photo’s from the victim but said he did not ask for nude photos. Feder faces up to 50 years in prison, if convicted. An arraignment hearing is scheduled for later this month.
Popp Sentenced In Cudahy Fire
10/09/09 - A former Marine will spend his next three Julys in jail for providing the military flare that started a massive fire at the Patrick Cudahy meat plant near Milwaukee. 23-year-old Joshua Popp was also put on three years of probation yesterday, and was told to perform 500 hours of community service. Popp and his 25-year-old brother Curtis both pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless endangerment. Curtis Popp shot the military flare at a family gathering on July fifth – and it landed on top of the Cudahy meat plant. The blaze caused over 50-million-dollars in damage, caused hundreds of residents to evacuate, and put over 18-hundred people out of work for at least a week. Prosecutor Kent Lovern agreed there was no malice involved. He called it an “incredibly stupid act.” Joshua Popp’s lawyer agreed, but said it would not help the community if his client spent time in jail. Curtis Popp will be sentenced October 26th.
Third Teen Sentenced in Break-In
10/09/09 - The final member of a trio of Beaver Dam teens who broke into the Journal Sentinel building in June has been sentenced. 18-year-old Christopher Larson was placed on probation for one year and ordered to perfume community services after pleading to reduced charges of misdemeanor Entry Into A Building. Larson and two other teens entered the building in the early morning hours and broke into a soda machine. Larson told investigators that the door was already open and when he was in the building he thought to himself that he was quote “the stupidest person in the world” and he was committing a “stupid crime that he deserved to get caught for.” The two other accomplices have already received similar sentences.
Sixth OWI For Horicon Man
10/09/09 - A Horicon man was ticketed for his sixth OWI overnight. According to the Dodge County Sheriffs Department, a motorist came across a vehicle in the ditch on Highway 33 in the Town of Beaver Dam around 2:30am this morning. Authorities checked with the registered owner, who said that Chad S. Winter was in possession of the vehicle. Smith was tracked down at his residence and taken into custody for refusing to submit to a breath-test. The 44-year-old was taken to the Beaver Dam Community Hospital for a forced blood draw and then taken to the Dodge County Jail on charges of drunk driving, resisting arrest and parking on the left side of the roadway.
Waupun Seeks Public Comments On Administrator Position
10/09/09 - Waupun residents will have their chance next Tuesday to give their opinion on the city’s City Administrator form of government. Officials will host a forum starting at 6pm at City Hall. The purpose of the meeting is to hear comments from residents about possibly doing away with the position of City Administrator. Since former Administrator Gary Rogers left office in June, the city has been talking over the possibility of keeping the status quo, going to a full-time mayor form of government like Beaver Dam or a City Manager form like Fort Atkinson. Residents will have five minutes each to express their opinion on the situation. However, their will be no dialogue between the council and residents. If you can’t attend the meeting comments can be submitted in writing.
Kohl’s/ Boston Stores Sales Stabilize
10/09/09 - Some of Wisconsin’s largest department stores are getting busier, in another sign that the recession is easing up. Kohl’s of Menomonee Falls reported a five-and-a-half percent sales increase from last September in stores open at least a year. That’s much better than the decline of six-tenths-percent projected by analysts from Retail Metrics. Bon-Ton Stores – which owns Younkers, Herberger’s, Elder-Beerman, and Boston Stores – had a four-point-eight-percent sales drop, better than the projected decline of seven-percent. Many experts say the economy will turn around, but at a low level. A more timely comparison of growth came yesterday, when the U-S Labor Department said new unemployment claims went down 33-thousand from the previous week, to their lowest levels since January.
Minority Of Employers Consider Pay Raises
10/09/09 - Almost a-third of Midwest employers expect to give pay raises next year – but about half are still not sure what they’re going to do. That’s according to M-R-A-The Management Association, which surveyed 576 companies in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Iowa. Twenty-eight of the firms said they would grant raises averaging two-point-nine percent. Another 26-percent said they would either freeze wages-and-salaries, or cut them. Even though the recession may have bottomed out, M-R-A vice president Vicki Vought said employers are still being held back by uncertainty. And she said more companies are looking for creative ways to show top performers that they’re valued, without having to spend money.
Feingold/ Kohl Support Ag Measure
10/09/09 - Wisconsin’s two U-S senators helped approve a new agriculture budget that includes 350-million-dollars in emergency aid for struggling dairy farmers. The Senate sent the 121-billion-dollar ag budget to President Obama yesterday on a 76-to-22 vote. Wisconsin Democrats Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold both voted yes. Kohl helped negotiate the dairy aid, in which 290-million will go directly to farmers and 60-million will buy their dairy products to feed the hungry. Kohl said he trusted that Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack will put the new aid in the right hands. After meeting with California Democrat Barbara Boxer, Vilsack promised the aid would be distributed equitably – which means that larger herds in the West will get the same share as the smaller family farms typically found in Wisconsin. Also yesterday, a bi-partisan group of lawmakers called on Vilsack to spread more payments from the Milk Income Loss Contract program to larger herds. Wisconsin’s smaller farms have gotten the most from that program – which gives federal subsidies when market prices fall below certain levels.
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