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March 3, 2010

Brown County Sheriff sued over crash in which he ticketed himself

Brown County Sheriff Dennis Kocken is being sued over a crash he was involved in three years ago.

Kocken rear-ended a, then, 17 year-old woman who claims she continues to suffer from injuries she sustained in the crash. She is demanding a jury trial determine and award a sum to compensate her for her injuries and related damages.

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March 2, 2010

Man Steals $36K Diamond Ring From Brookfield Store

A man ran off with a $36,000 diamond ring from a jewelry store in Brookfield after giving the clerk a fake Michigan ID.

It has been reported that this theft is one of many in the the midwest by a group of thieves. The group targets jewelry stores in malls that are near freeways.


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March 2, 2010

Marshfield man bombards enemies with fake magazine subscriptions

Gerald E. Roggenbauer Jr. bombarded five people with magazine subscriptions they didn't request.  The man said he did it because the people "irritated" him.

The felony mail fraud occurred between 2002 and 2005.

Roggenbauer had previously been convicted of the same crime in 2005, sending 5,200 magazine subscriptions to seven different people.


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March 2, 2010

Madison installs Credit Card Parking Meters

Madison has 70 new parking meters in the downtown area which will accept credit and debit cards as well as coins.

The rub is that they cost 20 cents more per hour.

Each new meter replaces an entire row of coin-only meters.


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March 2, 2010

Idiot in Sparta grabs steering wheel, vehicle rolls

A Sparta, WI man grabbed the stearing wheel during an argument while riding as a passenger in a vehicle. This domestic dispute caused the vehicle to roll over.

The man and the 19-year old woman driving were both treated at a local hospital and released.

Image: graur razvan ionut / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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March 1, 2010

Ex-treasurer says lost receipts account for $60K missing from youth football fund

The former treasurer of a youth football program in Sauk Prairie says that lost receipts would prove that she didn't steal the $60,000 missing from the organization.

She said she'd often write large checks to herself for cash.

"I did it for convenience sake, for me," Weinke said. "I’d take big chunks of money out if I had to go to several places."

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February 26, 2010

WI police candidates to undergo psych exams

 

The Wisconsin State Assembly passes a bill that will require police candidates to undergo psychological tests.

The law only applies to candidates, not applicants and will not go into effect until July 2011.
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February 23, 2010

Oregon Teacher On Leave After Alleged Threat

Yep, a teacher in my hometown or Oregon, WI is on "administrative leave" after allegedly making a threat involving the use of a weapon during a phone conversation while at work. Several teachers felt targeted by the threat. No other details are being made public.

Not the kind of hometown news I like to find out about....

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February 20, 2010

La Crosse Police Chief "There is no serial killer!"

Attempting to quash conspiracy theories about the recent river drowning in his city, La Crosse Police Chief Ed Kondracki said in a written statement “The previous river drownings have all been thoroughly investigated and reinvestigated by the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation and La Crosse Police Department, with a review by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There is no serial killer!”

This is in reference to the Smiley Face Killer theory in regards to river drownings throughout the upper midwest.

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February 17, 2010

Possible embezzlement from youth football league

Oak Creek Youth Football officials say there may have been embezzlement of funds from their program.

No further comment was made by the league.

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