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Helping police get the picture

January 18, 2010 By

State lawmakers want to make sure police are able to verify that they’re arresting the right person.  Legislation at the Capitol would give police in the field access to the state’s database of driver’s license and ID photos.

State Representative Kitty Rhoades (R-Hudson says that information would help to protect police by helping them identify a suspect. Currently, officers can only access a physical description of someone from their car, which can leave them with little to go on when a person doesn’t have a photo ID. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Legislature

Marshfield family has Haiti ties

January 18, 2010 By

Haiti’s earthquake has hit home for a Marshfield family. Stephanie and Jeff Salzwedel were in the process of adopting a girl from that poverty-stricken country. The 2-year-old girl’s name was Anchife. Stephanie even traveled to an orphanage there just before the adoption fell through last year. She says that while the earthquake has been devastating, conditions in the country weren’t very good before. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Children & Families, Human Interest

John Denver gets FDL man in trouble

January 18, 2010 By

John Denver sang about being a country boy, and one Fon du Lac probably wishes that’s where he was living. At least after police came to his door over the weekend after a neighbor complained about him playing Denver’s music at a high volume. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous

Supreme Court watcher still awaiting big decision

January 18, 2010 By

Mike McCabe with the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is among many observers wondering when the nation’s high court might release an opinion which could roll back limits on corporate and union cash in political campaigns. “It’s pretty clear that there’s indecision ont he court about how to handle this case,” says McCabe. “It makes you think that maybe they don’t have a fifth vote to go as far as some of the more extreme members of the court would like to go.” [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics & Government

Teens arrested in hospital bomb scare

January 18, 2010 By

Bomb threats made for a difficult weekend at a Dane County hospital. Stoughton police say they are recommending several charges against two juveniles arrested in connection with the rash of bomb threats at Stoughton Hospital.

More than a dozen patients were evacuated from the hospital Sunday afternoon, as a safety precaution. Police say the bomb threats started coming in Saturday night and continued into Sunday morning, and they had to take them seriously. A thorough check of the hospital came up with nothing. Stoughton is about 20 miles southeast of Madison.

Robin Colbert, WIBA

Filed Under: Crime & Courts
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