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7-3 FDL Fire Victim Identified The Fond du Lac County Medical Examiners Office has released the name
of the victim of a Fond du Lac house fire Monday morning.
57-year-old Jerrold Patt died in the fire at 426 Ruggles Street.
The cause of death and of the fire are still being investigated.
7-3 June "Super Safe" On Roads In Wisconsin
June traffic deaths are continuing to decrease. Last month was the second safest month since World War II with 51 deaths according to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. Traffic deaths for the year are also lower than they were last year and lower than the five year average. Dennis Hughes, chief of safety programs for the Wisconsin State Patrol Bureau cites high fuel prices for the decrease, but also an increase in seat belt use and overall safer driving.
7-3 Teen Driver To Court
A 19-year-old driver accused of hitting
two teenage girls, killing one of them, is expected in Sheboygan
County Circuit Court today. Nicole Kehm of Glenbeulah was struck
and killed while walking with others along the shoulder of a road.
Another girl suffered minor injuries.
7-3 Nude Rights
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin Court of Appeals is considering
the issue of whether being nude with someone means it's lawful to
be filmed without consent.
The court has received briefs on a case involving former
Waunakee High School chemistry teacher Mark Jahnke.
The 44-year-old Jahnke said that because his girlfriend agreed
to be naked in his presence, she had no reasonable expectation of
privacy.
The state Department of Justice counters that shared intimacy
does not give one the right to film the other.
The case tests Wisconsin's video voyeur law, most recently
enacted in 2001 as inexpensive recording devices spawned Internet
fetish and voyeur sites.
There is no timetable for a court's decision on the case.
7-3 Carnival Cuts
STOUGHTON, Wis. (AP) - The Stoughton city fair is starting a day
later than planned in part because higher fuel costs are forcing
carnivals to cut back operating hours.
Diesel fuel runs the generators that run everything from rides
to concession stands to air conditioning. The price has jumped
nearly $2 a gallon over the last year.
Operators say at full capacity, the Stoughton Fair operates on
five generators, each of which consume 6 to 7 gallons of diesel an
hour.
North American Midway Entertainment general manager Bob Gill
says to deal with ballooning costs, the company has started opening
later and closing earlier in some cities.
7-3 Emergency Committee
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A group of Wisconsin lawmakers and
emergency officials have formed a new committee to begin studying
how to best maintain government in disasters.
The committee's first meeting is set for July 30th.
The wide-ranging committee expects to update emergency
management statutes.
It also expects to make recommendations on lines of succession
in government, an alternate site for state government and
suspension of quorum requirements for the Legislature to take
action.
State Senator Bob Jauch is serving as the committee's chairman.
Other committee members include a representative of the Red Cross
and local government and emergency officials.
7-3 Army Summerfest "Game" Pulled
The U.S. Army removed a virtual urban warfare
game that allowed Summerfest festival goers to hop into a Humvee
and fire machine guns at an exhibit.People as young as 13 were able to
shoot at life-sized people
displayed on a computer screen as part of the Virtual Army
Experience game.The game drew criticism from Peace Action Wisconsin.
The groupcalled it "totally inappropriate and offensive."
Summerfest officials said they received a handful of complaints
and first requested the Army raise the minimum age of players to 18
and stop giving out a DVD of a similar virtual experiences.
The Army's exhibit includes a pull-up bar and recruiters
gathering data and answering questions.
Army spokeswoman Pat Grobschmidt said the game gives the public
a glimpse into what it's like to be a soldier. She says more than
500 people played the game on Summerfest's opening day.
7-3 Stabbing Death
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The defense attorney for the suspect in the
high-profile January stabbing death of Joel Marino says his client
gave Madison police an incriminating statement.
Adam Peterson's defense attorney, Dennis Burke, says he doesn't
know what Peterson told police when they contacted him and arrested
him in his mother's Minnesota home on June 26th.
Burke says he believes Peterson made an admission that's not in
the complaint.
Police have reported they served a search warrant for Peterson's
DNA, which ended up matching DNA from the Marino crime scene.
But they arrested the 20-year-old Peterson before the DNA
results were back.
The former University of Wisconsin-Madison dropout is in jail on
$1 million bail on a charge of first-degree intentional homicide.
7-4 Fond du Lac eligable for federal reimbursement
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - President Bush declared local governments
in 13 more Wisconsin counties eligible for reimbursement in the
aftermath of last month's floods.
Yesterday's newest declaration means governments in those
counties can ask the federal government to reimburse them for 75
percent of their costs to repair public facilities and
infrastructure. They also can ask for up to 90 percent of their
emergency response expenses.
Twenty-seven Wisconsin counties have now been declared eligible
for federal public assistance. The president has declared
individuals and businesses in 29 counties eligible for federal
assistance as well.
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