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A statewide Amber Alert was issued overnight for a two-year-old Racine girl and a man believed to be her father. Racine Police said Iryana Vaughn’s mother was murdered – and officers will talk to 25-year-old Iryin Vaughn about the slaying.
Police said it appears that the man and the homicide victim lived together, and the girl is apparently their daughter.
Officers say Vaughn fled with the girl to his home area of Chicago, where the two were picked up. The alert was cancelled around daybreak.
Wisconsin women and advocacy groups applaud a change of heart. While Nancy Brinker, head of the breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, said the organization “would never bow to political pressure,” apparently after three days of controversy, Komen is listening to public pressure and reversing a decision to cut off funding for Planned Parenthood.
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A small school district in western Wisconsin may become the first in the state to switch to a four-day school week. The Department of Public Instruction has given the Blair-Taylor district the okay to explore a four-day week for the next school year, which starts this fall. Superintendent Dennis Dervetski says administrators came up with the plan, with input from staff members and teachers — who are still under a union contract.
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A Berlin man made his initial appearance in Waushara County Circuit Court Thursday afternoon, facing charges that include OWI homicide, and hit and run homicide. Max J. Winkel, 19, is free on a $15,000 signature bond following his initial appearance in Wautoma.
Winkel faces nine counts related to the death of 17-year-old Devlin Klein of Poy Sippi, including the OWI homicide, hit and run resulting in death, as well as causing injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle.
The complaint alleges Winkel was the intoxicated driver of a pick-up that rear ended another car in the early morning hours of September 4th north of Berlin near the intersection of State Highway 21 and County Highway “XX.”
Klein was killed in that collision and two others injured. After allegedly fleeing that accident scene, Winkel’s pick-up ended up in a ditch three miles away, where he and another passenger were hurt. The complaint alleges his blood alcohol concentration was .197 percent.
Winkel faces over 80 years in prison if convicted. He is due back in court for a statue conference on February 29th.
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Kids give three cheers for Wisconsin’s great outdoors. State Senator Chris Larson led kids in the Senate Parlor in a round of cheers for outdoor activities. Larson, a Milwaukee Democrat, is cosponsor of the Children’s Outdoor Bill of Rights, along with Madison Democrat, Representative Chris Taylor. “Our kids are suffering from a nature deficit disorder. They are spending far more time in front of computer screens and TV screens, than playing outdoors and interacting with nature,” says Taylor. “This bill is the ‘pinky swear’ for the next generation, of making sure that we preserve the environment,” says Larson.
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