Fatal Accident Still Under Investigation
12/5/09 - No word yet on the cause of an accident last night in Lowell that left one person dead and two others injured. Dodge County Patrol Captain Molly Soblewski says 53-year-old Joel Cahoon of Reeseville was killed when his SUV rear-ended a farm tractor on County Highway G around 9:3pm. Cahoon was driving his Ford Explorer southbound on Highway G when the accident occurred. He was pronounced dead on the scene. The two men in the tractor, 53-year-old Mark Hamann and 31-year-old Thomas Hamann, both from Reeseville, were flown by Flight for Life to the UW Hospital Madison. The death is Dodge County’s 14th traffic fatality this year.
Funeral arrangements for Cahoon are pending.
Mistrial Declared in Child Abuse Case
12/5/09 - A judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the case of a Sheboygan County child care provider accused of injuring a 10-month-old girl left in her care. Circuit Judge Terence Bourke said the prosecution improperly withheld evidence from the attorney for 51-year-old Mary Benz. The Campbellsport woman had been on trial since Monday on a felony child abuse charge and three misdemeanor counts of obstructing police. Authorities said she caused major vaginal injuries to the infant at the Our Lady of the Lakes Child Care Center in Random Lake in June of 2007. And she allegedly asked three employees to lie to the police as they were investigating. Yesterday’s ruling means that Benz’s trial will start again, from the beginning. No date has been set for that. Defense attorney Richard Hahn asked for the mistrial last night. He said he was in District Attorney Joe DeCecco’s office when he spotted a social worker’s case file as part of the abuse investigation. A notation in the file reportedly quoted a doctor who said the parents should be considered as suspects – and the injuries may have occurred earlier than he had testified about.
Concert to Benefit Red Kettle Campaign
12/5/09 - A choral concert will be held tomorrow in Beaver Dam to raise money for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign. Karl Nienhuis is the Chairman of the Noon Kiwanis Club’s committee for the Red Kettle Campaign. He tells us the concert will bring together the Trinity United Methodist Church Handbell and Chancel Choirs, Grace Presbyterian Handbell and Vocal Choirs, St Johns Lutheran Choir and the Middle School Jazz Choir and will conclude with all the church’s joining together for an Ecumenical Choir. Nienhuis says there is no charge for the concert but the Red Kettle will be passed for a free will offering after the concert with all the proceeds benefitting the Salvation Army. The concert will be held at 3pm tomorrow in the Trinity United Methodist Church at the intersection of North Center and Oneida Streets.
To Lock or Not to Lock
12/5/09 - The decision could be just days away on whether to close the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. That could be the next step in the frantic effort to stop the predatory Asian Carp from getting into the Great Lakes. A spokesperson for the EPA says the decision to close the O'Brien Lock could come in the next two or three days. Experts say if the carp get into Lake Michigan, their voracious eating habits could starve smaller, less aggressive fish -- and wipe out the seven billion dollar sport and commercial fishing industry in the lakes. There are consequences to closing the lock. That would stop the movement of millions of tons of iron ore, coal, grain and other goods on the heavily-traveled commercial waterway. The lock would be closed for a minimum of 10 days while efforts to kill the carp are pursued.
Court Upholds Judgment against Milwaukee Co. Sheriff
12/5/09 - A federal appeals court rules Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Junior shouldn't have invited a Christian group to speak to deputies. The meetings were mandatory for some of those law enforcement officers. The judges rejected arguments that the sheriff had to allow the Christian speakers because he also permitted speakers from black and Latino law-enforcement support groups. The Christian group talked to officers about what Jesus could mean to their lives. The ruling Friday upholds a lower court's decision to award nearly 39 thousand dollars in attorneys' fees to deputies who were Muslim and Catholic. The appeals court said the sheriff's actions amounted to endorsement of a particular religious view.
Legislators Call for End of December Antlerless Deer Hunt
12/5/09 - There is a call to pull the plug on the December antlerless deer hunt in Wisconsin. With hunters registering the fewest deer in more than 25 years during the just-ended nine day deer season, there’s call for cancellation of the antlerless hunt from state Representatives Dean Kaufert and Scott Gunderson. Gunderson says this is about the future of deer hunting in Wisconsin. He says hunters do not believe the Department’s deer herd estimate because they are not seeing deer out in the woods, especially antlerless deer. Kaufert and Gunderson have made the cancellation request in a letter to the Natural Resources Board, which is scheduled to meet next week to consider proposed changes to the state’s deer hunting structure. The antlerless hunt is due to get underway next Thursday.
Shooting Followed Domestic Dispute
12/5/09 - Dane County prosecutors charge a Madison man with trying to kill his girlfriend and their young children. They say the domestic argument was over sex. Donte Beasley is charged with three counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, plus three other felonies. His girlfriend, Zenolia Rice, told police Beasley came home November 28th and demanded to have sex. When she refused, he shot her, their seven year old son and eight year old daughter.
Former Bush Aid Speaks in Milwaukee
12/5/09 - When he was introduced, former Bush White House adviser Karl Rove was called a legend. About 40 protesters in the crowd at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee called him something less complimentary. They said Rove is a war criminal. Rove faced down those hecklers during a speech Thursday night, ripping President Obama for tripling the federal deficit. Rove also told the crowd people voted for Obama because they found him inspirational -- except, Rove said, he isn't.
University’s Looking for Ways to Improve Graduation Rates of Select Groups
12/5/09 - The UW System is joining about two-dozen colleges and universities pledging to improve graduation rates for two specific groups of students. They want to cut achievement gaps for low-income and students of color in half by 2015. A new report shows 45 percent of such students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years, compared to 57 percent for other students enrolled at the schools. Jennifer Engle is a researcher for the Washington-based Education Trust which released the report. She says if participating schools access and success gaps were already cut in half, they would have had a 20-percent increase in enrollment and graduation of low-income and minority students. That would be 16-thousand-500 more graduates today. For the UW System, there’s a 12-percent difference in graduation rates for low versus higher income students, and a 29-percent difference between minority and white students. Spokesman David Giroux says a new statewide data system is being set up that would track individual students from kindergarten to graduate school. It’s hoped that case studies could reveal what makes some students stumble and others succeed.
12/5/09 - No word yet on the cause of an accident last night in Lowell that left one person dead and two others injured. Dodge County Patrol Captain Molly Soblewski says 53-year-old Joel Cahoon of Reeseville was killed when his SUV rear-ended a farm tractor on County Highway G around 9:3pm. Cahoon was driving his Ford Explorer southbound on Highway G when the accident occurred. He was pronounced dead on the scene. The two men in the tractor, 53-year-old Mark Hamann and 31-year-old Thomas Hamann, both from Reeseville, were flown by Flight for Life to the UW Hospital Madison. The death is Dodge County’s 14th traffic fatality this year.
Funeral arrangements for Cahoon are pending.
Mistrial Declared in Child Abuse Case
12/5/09 - A judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the case of a Sheboygan County child care provider accused of injuring a 10-month-old girl left in her care. Circuit Judge Terence Bourke said the prosecution improperly withheld evidence from the attorney for 51-year-old Mary Benz. The Campbellsport woman had been on trial since Monday on a felony child abuse charge and three misdemeanor counts of obstructing police. Authorities said she caused major vaginal injuries to the infant at the Our Lady of the Lakes Child Care Center in Random Lake in June of 2007. And she allegedly asked three employees to lie to the police as they were investigating. Yesterday’s ruling means that Benz’s trial will start again, from the beginning. No date has been set for that. Defense attorney Richard Hahn asked for the mistrial last night. He said he was in District Attorney Joe DeCecco’s office when he spotted a social worker’s case file as part of the abuse investigation. A notation in the file reportedly quoted a doctor who said the parents should be considered as suspects – and the injuries may have occurred earlier than he had testified about.
Concert to Benefit Red Kettle Campaign
12/5/09 - A choral concert will be held tomorrow in Beaver Dam to raise money for the Salvation Army’s Red Kettle Campaign. Karl Nienhuis is the Chairman of the Noon Kiwanis Club’s committee for the Red Kettle Campaign. He tells us the concert will bring together the Trinity United Methodist Church Handbell and Chancel Choirs, Grace Presbyterian Handbell and Vocal Choirs, St Johns Lutheran Choir and the Middle School Jazz Choir and will conclude with all the church’s joining together for an Ecumenical Choir. Nienhuis says there is no charge for the concert but the Red Kettle will be passed for a free will offering after the concert with all the proceeds benefitting the Salvation Army. The concert will be held at 3pm tomorrow in the Trinity United Methodist Church at the intersection of North Center and Oneida Streets.
To Lock or Not to Lock
12/5/09 - The decision could be just days away on whether to close the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. That could be the next step in the frantic effort to stop the predatory Asian Carp from getting into the Great Lakes. A spokesperson for the EPA says the decision to close the O'Brien Lock could come in the next two or three days. Experts say if the carp get into Lake Michigan, their voracious eating habits could starve smaller, less aggressive fish -- and wipe out the seven billion dollar sport and commercial fishing industry in the lakes. There are consequences to closing the lock. That would stop the movement of millions of tons of iron ore, coal, grain and other goods on the heavily-traveled commercial waterway. The lock would be closed for a minimum of 10 days while efforts to kill the carp are pursued.
Court Upholds Judgment against Milwaukee Co. Sheriff
12/5/09 - A federal appeals court rules Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke Junior shouldn't have invited a Christian group to speak to deputies. The meetings were mandatory for some of those law enforcement officers. The judges rejected arguments that the sheriff had to allow the Christian speakers because he also permitted speakers from black and Latino law-enforcement support groups. The Christian group talked to officers about what Jesus could mean to their lives. The ruling Friday upholds a lower court's decision to award nearly 39 thousand dollars in attorneys' fees to deputies who were Muslim and Catholic. The appeals court said the sheriff's actions amounted to endorsement of a particular religious view.
Legislators Call for End of December Antlerless Deer Hunt
12/5/09 - There is a call to pull the plug on the December antlerless deer hunt in Wisconsin. With hunters registering the fewest deer in more than 25 years during the just-ended nine day deer season, there’s call for cancellation of the antlerless hunt from state Representatives Dean Kaufert and Scott Gunderson. Gunderson says this is about the future of deer hunting in Wisconsin. He says hunters do not believe the Department’s deer herd estimate because they are not seeing deer out in the woods, especially antlerless deer. Kaufert and Gunderson have made the cancellation request in a letter to the Natural Resources Board, which is scheduled to meet next week to consider proposed changes to the state’s deer hunting structure. The antlerless hunt is due to get underway next Thursday.
Shooting Followed Domestic Dispute
12/5/09 - Dane County prosecutors charge a Madison man with trying to kill his girlfriend and their young children. They say the domestic argument was over sex. Donte Beasley is charged with three counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, plus three other felonies. His girlfriend, Zenolia Rice, told police Beasley came home November 28th and demanded to have sex. When she refused, he shot her, their seven year old son and eight year old daughter.
Former Bush Aid Speaks in Milwaukee
12/5/09 - When he was introduced, former Bush White House adviser Karl Rove was called a legend. About 40 protesters in the crowd at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee called him something less complimentary. They said Rove is a war criminal. Rove faced down those hecklers during a speech Thursday night, ripping President Obama for tripling the federal deficit. Rove also told the crowd people voted for Obama because they found him inspirational -- except, Rove said, he isn't.
University’s Looking for Ways to Improve Graduation Rates of Select Groups
12/5/09 - The UW System is joining about two-dozen colleges and universities pledging to improve graduation rates for two specific groups of students. They want to cut achievement gaps for low-income and students of color in half by 2015. A new report shows 45 percent of such students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years, compared to 57 percent for other students enrolled at the schools. Jennifer Engle is a researcher for the Washington-based Education Trust which released the report. She says if participating schools access and success gaps were already cut in half, they would have had a 20-percent increase in enrollment and graduation of low-income and minority students. That would be 16-thousand-500 more graduates today. For the UW System, there’s a 12-percent difference in graduation rates for low versus higher income students, and a 29-percent difference between minority and white students. Spokesman David Giroux says a new statewide data system is being set up that would track individual students from kindergarten to graduate school. It’s hoped that case studies could reveal what makes some students stumble and others succeed.
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