Today started like any other day, but certainly did not end that way! There was a STABBING at Olivia's school. It boggles my mind to think that something like that can happen here, but we all know deep down it can happen anywhere.
There are still a lot of unanswered questions. I am sure as the day goes on we will hear more.
People know the dangers of drunk driving -- yet they continue to do so. You would not believe how many reports of a pedestrian or a bicyclist being killed in a hit-and-run accident we have had here lately. More often than not, when authorities find the suspect in the hit-and-run, the reason they ran is uncovered -- they were drunk at the time. The latest incident really made me sick...
A 25-year-old woman was killed in a hit-and-run accident around 9PM Sunday. A short time later, police in a neighboring city noticed a car with what looked like "fresh" accident damage -- headlights dangling from the cables AND steam was coming from under the hood. As they followed her a description of the vehicle involved in a hit & run matched this vehicle. They pulled over the vehicle which was driven by a a 21-year-old woman. When the woman was asked about on her car, the woman said it happened a couple days earlier. Upon inspection of the damage, police found the hit-and-run victim's PURSE hooked to the car. The woman failed the field sobriety test and has TWO prior drunk driving convictions.
How can someone have so little regard for a human life? It makes me ill!
I think there are several things that contribute to the problem in Wisconsin. These are just a few...
I love Brett Favre & I love the Packers, but if I have to hear one more story about them I am going to plug my ears and sing...
This morning just after 4:30, 5.2 magnitude earthquake shook the Midwest. It was centered six miles from West Salem, IL. The quake was felt hundreds of miles away in places like Chicago, Milwaukee, Cincinatti, Des Moines, Indianapolis and others. I know it happens occasionally, but one that large doesn't. The furthest north in WI I have seen it reported as being felt is Peshtigo. That's a long way from West Salem, IL -- according to Google Maps that's 521 miles from West Salem. Wowzers!
No one in our house felt it. We were sound asleep at that time and it probably wasn't enough of a shake to wake people this far away from the epicenter. This earth science geek still finds it pretty interesting. :)
There have been a lot of strange stories in our news lately and one of them has been that of the measles. There have been four confirmed and three probable cases of measles in recent days. Today brings the news that there is now a confirmed case of rubella (German measles). Many communities are holding special immunization clinics so those who would like to receive the MMR immunization may do so.
I know immunizations are a controversial topic, but with many parents choosing not to immunize their children I can't help but wonder if stories like these are just beginning.
Sometimes teaching moments hit a little bit too close to home.
An 18-year-old student at Olivia's school is under investigation for having unprotected sex with one of his classmates and not telling her he is HIV positive.
He has not been criminally charged, but his medical records have been subpoenaed by investigators. According to those documents, he has been HIV positive since at least 2006.
According to two former girlfriends of the student, he had sex with one three times last year and had sexual contact another in December. Neither knew he was HIV positive until the aunt of the student told them after she found out last month.
Even though we believe (and teach Olivia) abstinence is best, we use these moments to talk about how situations such as these can be avoided.
I can't even imagine how distracted the kids have been the last couple school days with all the cameras & reporters around.
A Cessna Citation aircraft went down in Lake Michigan about 20 minutes from our house today -- only a short walk from my mom & step-dad's house. The FAA said it lost contact with the plane at about 4 PM. There isn't any word yet of how many on board.
Since my step-dad flies a small plane, I always worry when I hear about these small planes going down. My prayers & thoughts go out to the families of those on board!
Editing to update: They are saying may have been a medical transport plane carrying transplant organs. There were six on board.
The jury reached a verdict in the Steven Avery trial yesterday afternoon. He was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide and possession of a firearm by a felon. The jurors acquitted him of mutilating a corpse. I find that part mind boggling, but I wasn't in the court room to hear all the evidence. While I wouldn't want to be on a jury for a trial of this nature, I would like to be a fly on the wall to see and hear what goes on. Wouldn't you?
Now the attention turns to his nephew, an alleged accomplice. His trial begins in under way in April.
The Steven Avery trial I talked about a little over a month ago is going to jury tomorrow. I think it is a complete joke that his defense is claiming evidence was planted on his property. I wasn't in court, but have followed the trial enough to form an opinion that this man should be found guilty.
May Teresa's family find closure & justice from the verdict once it is reached. I cannot even begin imagine what they have gone through!
South Milwaukee Considers Law To Restrict Where Sex Offenders Can Live
South Milwaukee, WI -- A proposed new law could mean fewer places for sex offenders to live in one Milwaukee suburb. South Milwaukee is considering an ordinance that would prevent felons who are convicted of sexual crimes from living within 2,000 feet of facilities designed for children. That would include schools, day-care centers, playgrounds, athletic fields and parks.The law would leave just a few isolated areas in the city where they could live. The proposal is similar to legislation recently put in place in Franklin.
I will be watching developments in the Steven Avery trial. He & his nephew are accused of killing a freelance photograher on Halloween 2005. This is probably the biggest trial in our area since the Dahmer trial.
This isn't the kind of thing I normally post. I realize it is controversial, but I followed the Dahmer story closely. The arrest, the fallout after his arrest, the trial, and his murder by a fellow inmate in 1994. It was all so horrific that it was like something out of a book or movie.
I remember that summer like it was yesterday. The stories of missing young men. I remember the flier of one in particular -- a deaf man named Tony Hughes. It hung for weeks on the door of McDonald's (I worked there at the time).
Did Jeffrey Dahmer confess to all his crimes?If interested in the rest of the story, you can read it on themilwaukeechannel.com or see the video here.
There's a call to reopen the investigation into Milwaukee's most notorious killer.
There are new questions about Dahmer's criminal history before he returned to Milwaukee and never-reported details that some believe link Dahmer to one of the United States' most notorious cold cases.
The boy at the center of that cold case is now a household name. Who can forget the toothless grin of 6-year-old Adam Walsh, the Florida boy abducted, dismembered and dumped in a drainage canal in 1981.
A Miami author is making the case that Dahmer may be responsible for the Walsh slaying.
A local tv news crew was heading out to do a story about the danger of thin ice. Call it their reminder of even though we have had some cold recently it hasn't been enough to make lakes safe to drive on.
oops!!She has been alone at the Milwaukee County Zoo since Lucy died in September. She now has a new friend!
Milwaukee County Zoo Elephant Gets New Friend
December 15, 2006
A 26-year old African elephant named Ruth just arrived at the zoo from her former home in Brownsville, Texas.
Ruth will be company for Brittany, who has been alone since her companion Lucy died at the Milwaukee County Zoo in September.
"We wanted a good companion for Brittany, and Ruth met all that criteria, and more. It turns out that Ruth's companion had died, and so Ruth needed a companion also. So it was a perfect match," a zookeeper told 12 News.
Ruth will be kept in quarantine for 30 days while she gets used to things.
The two elephants can already see and hear each other from their separate enclosures, and they are starting to get acquainted.
source: TheMilwaukeeChannel.com
James Kim's body found after massive search. I had been following this story since I first read about it here.
Three people killed in Falk Corporation Explosion. We live at least 15 miles south of this factory and could feel and hear the blast at our house. Bob was upstairs getting ready for work, and I thought what the heck is he doing up there.
