Articles labeled: Wisconsin

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.

We’ve heard of cougars before, but this is taking it a little far.

A 41-year-old woman accused of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy was charged Tuesday with three felony counts of sexual assault of a child.

Authorities discovered the relationship after Teresa M. Cantrall of Oshkosh let the boy drive a car and he was pulled over for speeding, police said.

A Wisconsin State Patrol trooper stopped a vehicle May 11 that was traveling about 80 mph on a Neenah highway. Cantrall told the trooper she was the boy’s mother and was teaching him to drive, police said. Cantrall and the boy were arrested.

MT hates hearing about bus crashes, especially those that involve children as young as preschool. You want to believe that children are safe riding the gigantic yellow limo, but truth is, tragedy can strike at anytime.

MT hopes that the truck driver who rear ended this bus will have his license taken away and pay a serious fine at minimum as it was undoubtedly his fault.

Two elementary-age students were severely hurt and were flown to Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, said Lt. Paul Falduto, a sheriff’s spokesman.

“One was a child who was getting off the bus at the time it was struck,” he said.

The truck driver, a man in his 50s, was not injured seriously. He was taken to a local hospital and was being questioned by sheriff’s deputies Friday evening. Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said the truck driver may have been drinking from a soda can at the time of the crash, according to the Associated Press.
The 18 injured included 16 children and both drivers, police said.

“The [less-serious injuries] are anything from broken bones to scrapes and bruises,” Falduto said.

Thinking back on our own misguided youth, we may have had some incidences involving hairspray and a lighter. Fortunately we managed to escape without injury, unlike a boy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin:

A 14-year-old boy was transported to Aurora Medical Center Saturday with burns on more than a quarter of his body after a blowtorch game with another teenage boy, according to Capt. Mark Rusboldt of the Manitowoc Fire Department.

The injured boy, who was not identified, was later sent to Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital in Milwaukee, Rusboldt said.

We’ll be the first to admit we don’t have the patience for this kind of indulgence. That jersey would have been conveniently “lost” after the first month. And was this kid home schooled? We would have thought peer pressure would have made him shed his prized possession a long time ago.

David Witthoft finally shunned his Brett Favre jersey for a red shirt for the first time in 1,581 days.

The 12-year-old Ridgefield, Conn. boy wore the No. 4 jersey every day since receiving it as a gift for Christmas in 2003.

David’s father, Chuck Witthoft, says Monday that his son’s last day wearing the jersey was April 23 on his 12th birthday. Witthoft conceded his son was starting to become more concerned about his appearance after the jersey barely came down to his belt line.

This seems like a case of some serious road rage. What the hell is wrong with people?

A teenage girl remained in critical condition Monday after being shot in the head by someone in another vehicle over the weekend, Washington County authorities said.

Nicole Sell, 16, of Slinger, was being treated at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa, Sheriff Dale Schmidt said in a news release.

Sell was one of three people riding in a vehicle in the town of Addison on Saturday night, deputies said. A second vehicle passed the first about 11 p.m. and one or more occupants fired multiple shots into Sell’s vehicle, authorities said.

A child recovered from a drug house in Wisconsin was first believed to be missing Las Vegas girl Everlyse Cabrera, but now authorities aren’t so sure.

Instead, Green Bay, Wis., police now believe the girl might be the child of a former inmate at a North Las Vegas women’s prison, one who gave birth in 2005 and surrendered the infant to relatives.

“Our preliminary investigation and our continuing investigation has led us to believe that she is not (Everlyse Cabrera),” Green Bay police Capt. Karl Fleury said. “But we can’t say that with 100 percent certainty until the DNA evidence comes back.”

DNA samples from the Wisconsin girl and from Everlyse are being tested, but police say it could take months to get the results.

Man, this kid can’t catch a break. We wish her the best, and a speedy recovery.

Emily Miller was diagnosed with acute lymphocytic leukemia in 2002, overcame it in 2005 and was in remission until April of last year when she was diagnosed with T-cell lymphoma.

She was excited to finish chemotherapy this August.

But after recent routine labs, doctors told the family that Emily has acute myeloid leukemia. It’s a cancer that starts inside bone marrow and develops quickly.

Her father Cory Miller says Emily told him she didn’t want to die. She says she has about 10 fights left in her.

David R. Yates of Baraboo, Wisconsin is being accused of killing his 5-week-old twins, who were found under his bed. Will there be any outcries of sympathy because he is mentally ill, and obviously didn’t get the support he needs, as there would be if he was a woman? Doubtful.

The babies died of “multiple acute blunt force traumas,” a criminal complaint said, but it did not specify how the injuries occurred.

Sauk County District Attorney Patricia Barrett said they either were hit with something or were hit into something.

“These are non-accidental. Somebody had to cause them,” she said.

Defense lawyer Paul Polacek said he may ask for the charges to be dismissed because the complaint doesn’t say how the defendant is alleged to have killed the infants.

File this one under “career suicide”. Daniel Markofsky, an elementary school principal in McHenry County, Illinois, was allegedly caught at a motel outside of Milwaukee with two sisters, ages 15 and 16. And he was accused of doing a bad, bad thing:

Markofsky and the teens smoked marijuana, drank alcohol and watched pornography, according to a police report. Markofsky has been charged with performing oral sex on the 16-year-old and exposing them to pornographic material, Glendale police said.

Markofsky met the 16-year-old through a telephone chat line, said police in Glendale, which borders Milwaukee to the north. The sisters are from the Milwaukee area, said Glendale Police Officer Joel Dhein.

Good thing we have the Voice of Christian Youth America looking out for our elementary school children, because we all know that if a 4th grade boy puts on a wig he’ll immediately be INFECTED WITH THE GAY.

Students at Pineview Elementary in Reedsburg had been dressing in costume all last week as part of an annual school tradition called Wacky Week. On Friday, students were encouraged to dress either as senior citizens or as members of the opposite sex.

A local resident informed the Voice of Christian Youth America on Friday. The Milwaukee-based radio network responded by interrupting its morning programming for a special broadcast that aired on nine radio stations throughout Wisconsin. The broadcast criticized the dress-up day and accused the district of promoting alternative lifestyles.

“We believe it’s the wrong message to send to elementary students,” said Jim Schneider, the network’s program director. “Our station is one that promotes traditional family values. It concerns us when a school district strikes at the heart and core of the Biblical values. To promote this to elementary-school students is a great error.”

Schneider co-hosts “Crosstalk,” a nationally syndicated call-in Christian radio show.
After the program aired, both the school and Reedsburg School District office were flooded with calls complaining about the event.

We’re staunch supporters of separation of church and state, and will go to the mat if we thought our rights were being infringed upon. So when boneheaded teachers and school administrators at a high school in Madison, Wisconsin enacted policies that clearly demonstrate they have no idea what the Establishment Clause really means, they don’t do anyone any favors and just provide more fodder for the other side. See, geniuses, it refers to the government endorsing a particular religion, it doesn’t mean that religious beliefs of the students need to be suppressed or banned. Sheesh, we thought that should be pretty obvious to people with college educations.

According to the lawsuit [filed by the student’s parents], the student’s art teacher asked his class in February to draw landscapes. The student, a [Tomah High School] senior identified in the lawsuit by the initials A.P., added a cross and the words “John 3:16 A sign of love” in his drawing.

His teacher, Julie Millin, asked him to remove the reference to the Bible, saying students were making remarks about it. He refused, and she gave him a zero on the project.

Millin showed the student a policy for the class that prohibited any violence, blood, sexual connotations or religious beliefs in artwork. The lawsuit claims Millin told the boy he had signed away his constitutional rights when he signed the policy at the beginning of the semester.

The boy tore the policy up in front of Millin, who kicked him out of class. Later that day, assistant principal Cale Jackson told the boy his religious expression infringed on other students’ rights.

In an ironic twist of fate, kindergarteners learning about water safety were poisoned and taken to the hospital, suffering chlorine poisoning.

WAUSAU, Wis. — A kindergartner hospitalized in critical condition after being exposed to a high level of chlorine at a swimming pool was upgraded to fair condition Saturday, a hospital official said.

A group of more than 40 kindergartners from Lincoln Elementary had difficulty breathing Friday while they were in a swimming pool learning about water safety, said Mary Ellen Marnholtz, spokeswoman for the Wausau School District in northern Wisconsin. The pool was at a nursing home run by North Central Health Care in Wausau.

A new mother the second time around and apparently “depressed”, she decided to send her 2 week old babies to heaven by murdering them. Let’s see…where have we heard that story before? Perhaps from Andrea Yates who also drowned her kids to get rid of her “problems”.

Now how crazy can they be, given that she, like Andrea Yates, were “smart” enough not to kill themselves instead.

Hopefully, she can be depressed for the rest of her life in jail. If she thinks she’s depressed now, just wait until she’s secluded in a 4 x 7 cell. Good times. Good times.

Evans admitted to having trouble breast-feeding the boys Friday and then filling her tub halfway, according to the criminal complaint. She told investigators she put the fraternal twins in on their backs and took them out when they stopped moving.

“She did not attempt to remove them until they became lifeless,” the complaint said.

She told police she took David and Josiah Smith, who were born Jan. 4, out of the tub, put them on their sides on the bathroom floor and then put them in separate blankets. Josiah appeared to be coughing, but she doesn’t remember David coughing, the complaint said.

Her mother, Joyce Smith, then arrived home, went to the bathroom and asked, “What did you do? What did you do?” to which Evans didn’t respond, the complaint said. The grandmother then called 911.

David died at the scene, according to police.