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Bond has been set at $1.5 million for a 42-year-old Fond du Lac man who threatened to kill his wife and the man she was having an affair with.
Justin Hamilton made his initial appearance in Fond du Lac County Court Monday where he was charged with nine felonies, including two counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide and seven misdemeanors.
According to the criminal complaint, during domestic incidents, Hamilton had sliced his wife's left arm, punctured her stomach with a knife, hit her with a baseball bat, and struck her in the face.
He also threatened to kill her dogs.
Hamilton was arrested last Wednesday while lying in wait for the man who was having an affair with his wife outside the man's residence.
Hamilton allegedly forced his wife to buy a handgun at a fleet farm store since he couldn't because he's a convicted felon.
Then armed with the loaded handgun, extra ammo, and a knife, he took her to the man's residence where he was allegedly going to make her watch as he shot the man and then planned to shoot her.
But the man had spotted
of the two of them hiding in some bushes near a church and called police.
Police were able to arrest Hamilton without incident.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for November 5th.
Work has begun on the Wisconsin Street Bridge that crosses the Fox River in Oshkosh.
According to the State Department of Transportation, it starts with bridge balancing which will not affect motorists, pedestrians or marine traffic.
Structure work begins next Monday.
The project is expected to be finished by the end of next March.
The bridge will
remain open to motor vehicle traffic and pedestrians.
This is a bridge painting project.
The major item of work consists of cleaning and repainting the structural steel for the movable span of the structure.
In addition, the pedestrian gates will be replaced.
The bridge will remain open to motorists.
At least one lane in each direction will be open for traffic during work on the project.
The project will maintain a minimum of one open sidewalk during the work on the project.
Incumbent State Representative Alex Dahlman is hoping for a fourth term in the state assembly.
Bob Nelson reports for Civic Media News.
The Republican state lawmaker from Markizan represents the 39th district, but prior to redistricting, represented the 41st district.
He believes his experience in the state legislature sets him apart from his Democratic opponent.
Having success navigating our state government and being able to help our constituents out, navigate our state bureaucracies, I think is something that I'm very proud of.
Noamon says they made progress in the last session with income tax cuts, but need to fix their school funding formula.
Noamon has served on the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee, which puts together the state budget.
If re-elected, he hopes to move up in leadership.
on that committee.
So every dollar that gets spent in the state of Wisconsin goes through that committee.
So therefore the 39th district has a direct voice on that on that spending.
So I believe I've been very lucky.
I hope to continue to move up the ranks there, hoping to have even more of a leadership position on that committee moving forward.
Democrat Michael Skippington is challenging Dalman for the 39th state assembly district seat.
I'm Pop Nelson for Civic Media News.
Jury selection ended Monday afternoon in Manitowun County Court in the trial of Timothy Holschultz.
Holschultz allegedly ordered the punishment which led to the death of his great-nephew Ethan Holschultz who was seven on April 20th of 2018.
Seven men and seven women will hear testimony starting with opening statements Tuesday morning.
The court and the attorneys on both sides spent much of Monday questioning nearly 100 potential jurors
21 requested individually with 13 of those people being excused.
The remaining pool was then brought into the courtroom.
26 people were initially brought into the jury box, with attorneys on each side being given the opportunity to eliminate six people each, reaching the 14 jurors who will hear the case.
Hallschaltz is charged in connection to the 2018 death of his great-nephew Ethan Hallschaltz.
The 70-year-old was placed in the Hallschaltz home as a foster child.
Ethan Hallschaltz was found dead in
Snowbank at a town of Newton Home on April 20th of 2018.
Oshkosh Area School District students, families, staff, and community members are invited to weigh in on the final name for the city's new West Side Middle School.
The second and final naming survey is open through Friday, October 30th at 11.59 p.m.
Online Survey Access and Multilingual Resources are available at oshkosh.k12.wy.us slash
school hyphen name hyphen survey.
An initial open-ended survey in September drew 849 respondents and a total of 891 name suggestions.
The district's facilities committee evaluated community feedback and selected three finalists listed alphabetically, Lewis Hine, Paul Poboresny and Corey Park.
The feedback period was extended through late October to ensure community members have time to learn about each nominee and cast their vote.
The results of the survey
will serve as an advisory recommendation to the Board of Education, which will review the feedback during its November 11th meeting and make its official selection at the December 2nd Board meeting.
Once the new middle school is named, the district will serve a future students, families and staff to select the school's mascot.
The Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation has awarded the Oshkosh Fire Department with a $22,865 grant to purchase black-line gas
monitors.
The new back-lying gas monitors will significantly strengthen life safety for the Oshkosh Fire Department and the Oshkosh community by providing rapid detection of oxygen deficient, toxic and explosive atmospheres before responders and residents are exposed.
Since 2005, the foundation has awarded more than 7,300 grants, totaling over $112 million to public safety organizations.
I'm Wayne Mauser for Civic Media News.
For Civic Media News, I'm Connie Feldman.
With brewers fever sweeping Wisconsin, state officials are warning fans to watch out for ticket scams.
The Wisconsin Department of Trade and Consumer Protection says sold out events, like playoff games, are a breeding ground for scammers hawking fake or counterfeit tickets.
DATCP Secretary Randy Romansky says be wary of too good to be true offers.
Sellers offering ticket printouts or photocopies and any requests to pay by wire transfer or prepaid debit cards.
He says the best way to buy tickets is directly from the team's website or official box office.
If you do go to the secondary market for tickets, he says make sure to use platforms with built-in buyer guarantees like SeatGeek and always make sure to check for hidden fees before checking out.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Call says his office is preparing for possible election security issues ahead of November's election.
In an interview with Civic Media Call addressed concerns about federal agents being sent to polling places.
It's against federal law for a federal officer to direct armed agents to an active polling place, and I don't think that the Trump administration will be violating that law, but if they do, we are prepared to respond.
He encourages voters to report any concerns.
First, somebody can contact one of the folks who's working at the polling place where they are.
They can also contact their local clerk or the state election commission.
Call also raised concerns about possible mail delivery delays and urged absentee voters to return their ballots early.
The race for Green Bay Mayor just got a bit bigger as City Council President Alyssa Profitt officially kicked off her campaign last Friday.
Profitt says her decision to run for Mayor comes from what she's learned working with current Mayor Eric Genrich and encouragement from people in her Green Bay neighborhood.
Profitt joins former Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmidt as the only announced candidate in the race.
Mayor Genrich recently announced he will not seek a third term.
The new Oshkosh law tilting power of the pub crawl to police seems to have made an impact.
Residents say this year's pub crawl event last weekend was quieter and less violent than in years past.
Saturday's event was the first pub crawl since the Oshkosh Common Council unanimously passed the ordinance in September to strengthen law enforcement around the event, an unsanctioned tradition of bar hopping that spawns house parties near the UW Oshkosh campus.
Last spring's pub crawl prompted 65 calls for police who gave out more than 40 tickets and arrested 10 people.
A 23-year-old man was also arrested after an alleged shooting near the UWO campus.
With just weeks to go until the November election, Democratic candidate for Wisconsin's third congressional district, Rebecca Cook, spoke to voters around the health care crisis and the impact the Trump administration is having on rural hospitals.
Civic media's James Callie takes us to the Chippewa Valley campaign stop.
During a press conference outside the former HSH's Sacred Heart Hospital site on Thursday, Cook criticized the one big beautiful bill passed last year and the impact it could have on rural hospitals.
The hospital that's behind us here has been closed for years.
And when it closed, we lost behavioral health beds.
We lost labor and delivery.
We lost a fixture in this community that has ensured that people have access to care here in the Chippewa Valley.
Cook says if Democrats take control of the House of Representatives and Senate in the November election, their first legislative session should be solely focused on health care.
I'm James Kelly for Civic Media News.
Medicaid cuts from the one big, beautiful bill act are projected to cost Wisconsin roughly $7 billion in federal Medicaid funding over 10 years, severely straining rural health care infrastructure.
And that's your state news update.
I'm Connie Feldman for Civic Media News.
Partly cloudy today with a high in the upper 60s to right around 70 this afternoon.
Tonight, a few scattered showers.
It'll be mostly cloudy with a low dropping into the upper 40s to low 50s tomorrow.
Partly cloudy with a high and the low to mid 60s.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.
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