Articles labeled: Wisconsin

Another good reason for parents to review their kid’s homework.

A Wisconsin toddler was seriously injured after being pinned against a wall by a cow.

The Green Bay, Wisconsin woman who tried out for high school cheerleading under her daughter’s name has been committed to a mental health facility.

Brittany Zimmerman, a University of Wisconsin college student who was stabbed to death earlier this year, had called 911 during her assault but police did not arrive for 48 minutes afterward.

Although the dispatcher claimed later to have heard nothing, the 911 tape captured screams, gasps and what sounds like a struggle, according to the court documents.

Spring was in the air when college student Zimmerman returned April 2 from classes at the University of Wisconsin to the off-campus apartment she shared with her fiance, Jordan Gonnering.

He was out when she arrived home. He discovered her body when he returned.

Zimmerman had been stabbed multiple times in her chest, near her heart. She’d also been beaten and strangled, according to warrants released recently.

Zimmerman managed to call 911 at 12:20 p.m. The call was taken by the Dane County 911 center and an internal investigation revealed the dispatcher did not hear any sounds that would signal an emergency.

Because of that, police were not sent to the apartment until 48 minutes after Zimmerman made the call. Her fiance was already there.

Police have still not found the killer.

Former suburban Chicago school principal Daniel Markofski has been sentenced to a year in prison and 18 months of supervision for sex acts with two teenagers.

Markofski was charged in April, after police said they found him watching pornography with two teenage girls at a Super-8 Motel in Glendale, Wis. The girls, now ages 16 and 17, were in various states of undress, according to police reports.

After Markofski completes his prison and supervision sentence, he will be required to register as a sex offender for the following 15 years.

Markofski was removed from his post as principal at Spring Grove Elementary following his arrest in April. After the incident, Nippersink District 2 officials denied Markofski’s resignation request and fired him.

A Wisconsin couple accused of severely abusing their 14-year-old daughter claimed in court that they thought the girl “had the devil inside her.” Yeah, we don’t think the method they employed of removing said devil is found anywhere in the Bible.

Minerva Lopez, 32, was charged with 16 counts of child abuse, and her husband, Porfirio Olivas-Lopez, 38, was charged with 11 counts of child abuse for allegedly beating the girl.

Most of the abuse, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court, was done by Lopez, who readily admitted to town of Madison police Detective Robb Hale that from April to September she beat the girl with a broomstick, a metal rod, a frying pan and other objects.

Hale said in an interview that this was the most severe case of child abuse he’s ever investigated. He called it “highly likely” that more charges will be filed against the couple.

A fast thinking 14-year-old girl in Eau Claire, Wisconsin helped deliver her friend’s baby in the back of a van while they were on the way to the hospital.

Twenty-year-old Ellie Godown says her contractions started coming two minutes apart on Monday and her water broke at a gas station.

She and friends drove to the hospital, but the baby apparently wasn’t going to wait.

Fourteen-year-old Abi Middleton says she was sitting with Godown when the baby started emerging. She says she quickly wrapped the newborn in her sweat shirt to keep her warm.

A man in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin has been charged with buying his 4-year-old a beer during the county fair. Why no charges were brought against the person that actually sold the man two beers, especially after he acknowledged that one was for his son, we don’t know. Oh wait, yes we do — Wisconsin has an asinine law that allows parents to legally serve their kids booze. It looks like the letter of that law is about to be tested.

A 16-year-old in Sheboygan, Wisconsin has been charged with carrying a deadly weapon after he was caught at school with a box cutter in his pocket.

The boy took a box cutter to school Tuesday after someone chased him home wielding a baseball bat on Monday. The boy’s mother called police because her son said he would handle the situation Tuesday at school.

The box cutter was found in the boy’s pocket while he was at STRIVE, the Sheboygan Area School District’s alternative high school.

He was charged as an adult because he was previously waived into adult court in another case. Offenders age 16 and younger are charged by default in juvenile court but can be waived into adult court.

We didn’t know it was bring your kids to work day.

A Milwaukee woman celebrating her 37th birthday with a 17-year-old son visiting from Chicago went on a robbery spree with him Tuesday night, police said. Mom drove the getaway car while her son robbed a gas station in Milwaukee and another in the suburb of Greenfield within an hour, according to police.

Also in tow were the woman’s 13-month-old daughter and 10- and 14-year-old sons, police said.

“This is a first,” said Greenfield Police Chief Francis Springob of the alleged armed robberies. “Good grief, it’s really a sad situation when you’re celebrating your mom’s birthday [like this]. It’s one of those where you’re almost like ‘You’ve got to be kidding.’”

A Wisconsin teenager has been charged with starving her baby to death by refusing to breastfeed her.

The 19-year-old is being held on tentative charges of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse.

District attorney Tim Gruenke said Monday the woman gave birth last August but stopped feeding the girl after two days, knowing the infant would die. He says she put the girl’s body in a cooler and then put it out with the garbage this spring.

It seems like we’ve been noting more and more stories like this lately where missing kids are found alive, a welcome reprise from the seeming deluge of tragic endings.

Superior police say they have located a Minnesota woman and her three children.

Police say Colleen M. Larson, 39, and her three children — 11-year-old Garrett, 10-year-old Devan and 6-year-old Brodrick — had been missing since Thursday, when they were seen in Superior on their way to Ashland, Wis.

Police had said Colleen Larson, of Rush City, Minn., may have “medical issues that may or may not cause danger to the children.” They were not specific about what those issues might be.

A boy in Racine, Wisconsin was struck by a motorcycle during in an Independence Day parade.

Sgt. John Scharping says Xavier Griffin, of West Carrollton, Ohio, was not seriously injured. Paramedics did not take him to the hospital.

Police reports say that after the parade, with hundreds still in the area, a 36-year-old Racine man on a 2005 Harley-Davidson Sportster hit a curb and was thrown from the bike. It continued onto a sidewalk where the boy was struck.

The man then allegedly fled, but was apprehended by onlookers.

Wow, those 4th of July parades are becoming dangerous.

Police have revealed more details in the situation where they shot and killed Antonio Torres, who had kidnapped his 22-month-old daughter.

During the final standoff near Pell Lake, police say that Torres put his daughter on the highway and pointed a shotgun, threatening to do the same.

His daughter is now in safe hands after he kidnapped her and beat his girlfriend.

Jennifer Popovich received the blows Torres dealt right before Torres kidnapped their daughter, and she kicked him out of their home because he was getting too abusive.

Yet in her mind, he still had redeeming qualities

“I know people are going to portray him as this monster and he really wasn’t,” Popovich told the Racine Journal-Times./blockquote>

We’ve heard of home deliveries, but never Dodge Caravan deliveries.

John and Rebecca Wendorf of Oostburg were on their way to Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center Sunday night, but Rebecca’s contractions became too intense so they pulled over and called 911.

John Wendorf says they had little choice in where their baby was going to be born because she was on the way, like it or not.

The 5-pound, 7-ounce newborn arrived in the parking lot of Muth Mirror Systems in Sheboygan.