It's Wayne Mauser, local news.
Good morning.
I'm Wayne Mauser for Civic Media News.
Dutch County Sheriff's officials tell us a 71 year old man from rural Randolph died in a single vehicle crash on County Highway P near North Columbus Street in Randolph Monday night.
Investigators say the man was driving a 2004 international straight truck with a dump body west on County Highway P with the dump body in a raised position.
It struck an overhead wire causing the truck to overturn and it trapped the driver inside.
The man suffered fatal injuries and died at the scene.
Deputies were dispatched to the scene at 7.29 p.m.
Monday evening.
Dodge County Sheriff's officials have released the names of those involved in a fatal collision between an SUV and semi tractor trailer truck
Last Thursday morning, 77-year-old Randall Gerhardt of Jefferson died at the scene.
The accident on State Highway 16 and 60 and County Highway double B in the town of Elba was reported just before 7 that morning.
Gerhardt was driving his SUV west on State Highway 16 and 60.
The semi was heading south on County Highway double B and failed to stop at the stop sign, striking the SUV.
The semi driver, 28-year-old Tyler Melton of Waterloo, was taken to Prairie
hospital with minor injuries.
A Washera County sex offender has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography.
According to the Sheriff's Office, on July 16th of 2025, they learned that Ryan Ditman, a registered sex offender, had violated rules of his extended supervision and the state's sex offender registry.
He was suspected of having a relationship with a young minor girl and other violations.
He was previously convicted in out of Gamy County in 2022.
of five counts of possessing child pornography.
He was released from prison in October of 2024.
When Washera County Sheriff's Detectives talked to him, he confessed to having the unauthorized relationship and having thousands of images of child pornography on his cell phone.
A digital forensic download of his cell phone confirmed what Ditman told detectives.
Nicholas Gonzalez was sentenced Tuesday in Washera County Court to three years in prison on convictions for possession of child pornography.
The 22-year-old Gonzalez previously pleaded no contest to two possession counts while another 13 charges were dismissed.
He was also placed on extended supervision for eight years and then probation for two years by Judge Guy Dutcher.
Gonzalez was also registered as a sex offender for life according to court records.
Gonzalez was arrested after the Oshara County Sheriff's Office received a cyber tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
A former Madison priest was convicted Tuesday in Wapaka County Court of possession of child pornography, attempted child enticement, and attempted second-degree sexual assault.
38-year-old Andrew Showers will be sentenced January 12th after pleading no contest to those three counts.
Other counts were dismissed as part of the plea deal, according to court records.
Showers was originally charged after trying to meet who he believed was a 14-year-old girl, but Abby was actually an undercover police officer.
He later was charged with
child pornography possession after a search of his electronic devices.
Showers returns to court October 22 for a Marathon County case where he's charged with attempted grooming of a child for sexual activity.
The Oshkosh Common Council decided to table a vote on whether to largely prohibit the use of automated license plate reading or ALPR camera technology for criminal investigations.
Several council members advocated for stronger restrictions.
Under the proposed ordinance, the Common Council would have had to authorize any city staff to use ALPR technology for investigations.
The Trefford Studios in Fond du Lac is receiving a grant that will allow it to present more
programs for neurodivergent individuals.
Bob Nelson has more for Civic Media News.
Trefford Studios and the Trefford Center in Fond du Lac are world-renowned for their work with those on the autism spectrum and with Savant Syndrome.
Gina Reader is an administrative assistant for SSM House at Trefford Studios.
She says the grant called AutoVision will allow them to present five programs.
Neovators on the spectrum program will be about autism resources across 10 Wisconsin regions.
Then there's amazing
Avance, NeuroWorks, and Islands of Genius.
And that one is going to just help explain the Trafford approach that is designed by Dr. Trafford that we use with our autism program.
The last program is simply titled What?
during which reader and others will explain what will be coming up in future programming through Trufford Studios.
I'm Bob Nelson for Civic Media News.
The Hobart Lawrence Police Department says it intends to release some records from the Josh Jacobs investigation, but attorneys for people named in the records say they plan to ask a judge to block the disclosure.
Surveillance video shows part of Jacobs' altercation with his then girlfriend at his Hobart home.
The NFL also said it's
in the case, including the video.
On September 24, the court directed the department to review the records and weigh whether they should be released.
The department says it completed that review and determined some records could be released with redactions.
Multiple people are dead after a plane crash in the town of Dalona in Salt County.
Salt County Dispatch Center received multiple reports of a downed aircraft near Park Lane around 9.31 p.m.
Tuesday night.
The total number of people on board the aircraft is on
known at this time is also unknown if there were any other injuries in the crash.
Rippon High School Student Services Secretary Sherry Leverance was recently recognized for the 2027 Administrative Assistant Support Staff Award from the Wisconsin School Counselor Association.
Rippon High School Counselor Dakota Candler nominated Leverance, recognizing her more than 18 years of dedicated service to the district and her extraordinary partnership with the school counseling team.
Leverance works closely with school counselors to coordinate academic and career planning events, college
coursework, youth apprenticeship, advanced placement testing, scholarships, and student and family communication shall be recognized next month at the Association's annual conference in Wisconsin Dells.
You can read more about Leverence and the award at the Rippon Area School District website.
I'm Wayne Mauser for Civic Media News.
For Civic Media News, I'm Connie Feldman.
Vandalism or an act of nature?
Civic Media's Maddie Schaefer has more on multiple fires destroying equipment for a controversial Northwoods
pipeline.
An Enbridge drill rig and support equipment were destroyed in a fire early Monday morning at a construction site along the company's Line 5 relocation project in northern Wisconsin.
According to the Ashland County Sheriff's Office, the fire was reported around 5.20 Monday morning near Wilson Road in the town of White River.
When deputies arrived, they found two boring machines that had been involved in the fire.
Enbridge says graffiti was also discovered at the site and has described the incident as vandalism.
This is the third fire
fire involving Enbridge property in northern Wisconsin over the past month.
On September 14th, a fire broke out at an Enbridge office building in Superior.
Just three days later, another fire damaged drilling equipment at a Line 5 construction site in Ashland County.
Enbridge says it takes these incidents seriously and will cooperate with authorities as they investigate and seek to hold those responsible accountable.
No injuries were reported and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.
The Ashland County Sheriff's Office
Office is also asking anyone who noticed suspicious activity near the site to come forward, including anyone with photos or surveillance footage that could help investigators.
For Civic Media News, I'm
Maddie Schaefer.
The company also confirmed that Line 5 remains in operation.
One more county is showing probable cases of measles in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says they're now investigating five probable cases of measles in Rock County.
Health workers say these cases are linked to each other but are not connected to the ongoing outbreak in southwest Wisconsin.
This is the seventh county in the state to report measles cases since August.
There are currently 267 confirmed cases of measles.
More than 99% are in people who are not vaccinated again.
against the highly contagious disease.
It was a day of power at our state capitol yesterday as opponents of two proposed high voltage transmission lines running through Wisconsin gathered to have their voices heard.
The Group No.
765 Line organized the event with 267 people registered and visits to 52 legislative offices.
Organizers say they secured commitments from 25 Wisconsin lawmakers during the day of meetings at the Capitol.
Residents raised concerns about property values, farmland, and environmental impacts.
The Group wants changes to Wisconsin's Transmission Line approval laws, a review of regional grid expansion plan, and a public hearing on a utility application.
The proposed Maribel and Becky projects would span roughly 330 miles, stretching from southeastern Minnesota across southern Wisconsin to the Illinois border.
Developers say the lines are needed to improve grid reliability and meet growing electricity demand.
Organizers say lawmakers agreed to at least one request, but that doesn't necessarily mean they oppose the projects.
Well, it was sure nice while it lasted, but our brief summer fling last weekend gives way to more fall-like temperatures this week.
Details coming up in your forecast.
And that's your state news update.
I'm Connie Feldman for Civic Media News.
It's the Brewers and the Dodgers high on Mike Clemens with sports baseball game three of the NLCS tonight the Brewers and the Dodgers Milwaukee up two games to none and the best of seven Robert Gasser on the mound for the crew as the series shifts to Dodgers Stadium in LA the Brewers catcher William Contreras
Keep going, you know the goal is not to think about where we're at You know regardless of what you know where we're going who we're playing against You know the goal is just to focus on doing our jobs and you know executing our jobs
So that's the task at hand and just focusing on what's next.
In the American League, the Rays beat the Guardians 3-1 to tie that series at one game apiece.
NFL.
The Packers begin their week of practice getting ready for Sunday night football at Lambeau Field against the two and three Dallas Cowboys.
The Badgers are going to have their hands full Saturday night.
When they take on UCLA in Los Angeles, the Bruins now rank 12th in the nation after knocking off Oregon with sports on Mike Clemens.
Partly to mostly cloudy today with a high in the low to mid 60s this afternoon.
Tonight to mostly cloudy we're going to drop into the upper 30s to low 40s.
Tomorrow cloudy with scattered rain we could get a quarter inch or more in spots with a high in the mid to upper 50s.
I'm meteorologist Sean Cable.
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