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Nine Dane County Deputies Retire
Nearly 120 years of combined experience walks away from the Dane County Sheriff's Office
By Jennifer Miller
MADISON, WI (YN) As the fate of 18 deputies hangs in the balance as negotiations with Dane County remain at a stalemate, nine deputies have decided to hang up their shields and their guns and call it a career. The deputies, their y
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Coroner ID's Body As That Of Murder Suspect
Body of Tyrone Adair found in a vehicle in the Town of Cottage Grove
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) The Dane County Coroner has confirmed the body found in a vehicle parked on a road in the town of Cottage Grove is that of Tyrone Adair, the man suspected of murdering four people last week. Adair had been the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the murders. His body was found in an SUV Adair was reported to have been driving at the time of the killings.
Adair, 38, of the town of Middleton, was want
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Body Found In Suspect Vehicle
Body could be that of missing quadruple-murder suspect.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) Madison Police and Dane County investigators are in the town of Cottage Grove where a body has been found in a vehicle matching the description of the car used by murder suspect Tyrone Adair. Adair has been the focus of a massive manhunt after allegedly killing two women and two children late last week. Police say the GMC Acadia is the same vehicle they had been searching for since the murders were discov
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Still More Holiday Decorating Dangers
71 percent of house fires in December are due to improper decorating practices, and candles are a major cause.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) Candles are big part of holiday decorating and the biggest danger. In fact, according to the Madison Fire Department, 71 percent of house fires in the month of December are due to improper decorating practices, and candles are a major cause.
MFD spokeswoman Lori Wirth says, “Candles have become so pervasive in our homes, we tend to forget that we’re dealing with open flame.” She says the most common causes of holiday candle fires are candles placed too close to flammable decorations—like greenery.
Bu
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Town of Madison Father on Trial for Abuse
14 year old emaciated and abused girl found in a closet by social workers in the family's Town of Madison apartment last fall.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) - Testimony is underway in Dane County Court this week in the child abuse trial of Profirio Olivas. The Town of Madison man is accused of abusing his 14 year old daughter who was found battered inside a closet last September by social workers investigating allegations of abuse.
Olivas, 39, is charged with 23 counts of various abuse, plus one count of second degree sexual abuse of a child. His wife, Miner
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Town of Madison Mother Guilty of Abusing Daughter
The girl was found hidden in the family’s town of Madison apartment in September of 2008 by police investigating reports of child abuse.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) - Scalded, beaten, stabbed, pinched…that’s what Dane Court records say happened to a 14 year old town of Madison girl, and all at the hands of her mother. 33 year old Minerva Lopez pleaded no contest in Dane County Court this week to six counts of child abuse. 16 other counts were dismissed, but will be considered when Lopez is sentenced in about two months.
The charges carry a penalty of up to 130 y
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Dane County's D.A. Will Stay Put...At Least For Now
D.A.Brian Blanchard, who applied to succeed Burnie Bridge, didn’t make the Governor’s list of finalist, it was announced Friday.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) - Someone once said, “A judge is just a lawyer who knows a Governor.” But Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard won’t be donning the black robe as the judge for the state’s 4th District Court of Appeals. Blanchard, who applied to succeed Burnie Bridge, didn’t make the Governor’s list of finalist, it was announced Friday.
Among the list of finalists: State Representative Gary Sherman, Assistant P
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Mother's Day In December
Any woman who has ever been pregnant would roll their eyes, at least, at the mere thought of traveling on the back of a donkey while being “great with child”, then giving birth in a barn.
By Jennifer Miller
MOUNT HOREB, Wisconsin (YN) - When you think about it, and depending on your belief system, the Christmas holiday is really Mother’s Day. Most of us know the story about a young virgin specially chosen to carry and give birth to a baby boy who would be called the “king of kings”. It wasn’t easy. Any woman who has ever been pregnant would roll their eyes, at least, at the mere thought of traveling on the back of a donkey
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Hallucinogenic Mushroom Grows Mushrooming in Madison
Earlier this week, police responded to an apartment on Wilson Street, where a woman was reported to be unconscious and not breathing. Once inside the apartment, officers found what they describe as the second largest “mushroom grow” discovered in Madison in the last month.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) - Muscoda may be the morel capital of Wisconsin, but Madison is gaining on it when it comes to growing a different kind of the fungus—the hallucinogenic kind.
Earlier this week, police responded to an apartment on Wilson Street, where a woman was reported to be unconscious and not breathing. Once inside the apartment, officers found what they describe as the second largest “mushroom grow” discovered in M
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Heating Your Home Without Burning Down the House
According to the National Fire Protection Association, heating equipment was involved in just over 64,000 house fires in 2006, which resulted in 540 deaths, 1400 injuries, and nearly a billion dollars in property damage.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) - Has your furnace kicked on, yet? Is it purring like a kitten, or sputtering and coughing like your Uncle Charlie after his last Marlboro? If it were up to the Madison Fire Department, your heating system would have been thoroughly checked out well before now, and firefighters are urging those who haven’t done this pre-Winter maintenance to get it done now.
MFD spokeswoman Lori Wirth says fires caused by heating equipment are surpassed only by cooking fires for sheer numbers of calls. According to
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Don't Let Your House Get Lost in Space....Heaters.
Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth says space heaters, whether portable or stationary, accounted for one-third of the home heating fires and 73% of home heating fire deaths in 2006.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) - With family budgets strained during this nation’s economic downturn, a new concern has been raised as we head into the home heating season. Madison Firefighters are worried that more people will turn to space heaters and other supplemental heating sources to reduce their home heating bills.
Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Lori Wirth says space heaters, whether portable or stationary, accounted for
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Missing Children: Gone But Never Forgotten
The U.S. Justice Department’s most recent figures put the number of missing children in this country at over 797-thousand. That adds up to millions of mothers and fathers, siblings and grandparents....worried and wondering what is happening to their beloved child, and if they will ever see that child again.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) - No parent wants to think about someone taking their child from them, but it’s a fear that makes many of us nearly pathological in our protection of our kids so that even something as simple as taking them to the park becomes an exercise in surveillance; making us wonder if the guy walking through with his dog is just a guy with a dog, or a sick pervert intent on doing our children harm.
The U.S. Justice
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Fitchburg Shooting Raises Questions About Self-Protection
"... in Wisconsin a citizen is allowed to use deadly force only to defend himself, herself or another person from the threat of death or great bodily harm."
By Jennifer Miller
MADISON, Wisconsin (YN) - The 911 call is chilling. A frantic man telling a Dane County Dispatcher he just shot an intruder who broke into his house in Fitchburg. As the dispatcher does her best to calm him, even when Jamie Chen isn’t speaking you can tell he’s just lived his, and many of our, worst nightmares.
42 year old Roberto Vega-Gil of Madison had a long rap sheet, including convictions for burglary, when he appa
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When A Street Drug Isn’t Really a Street Drug
Sometimes referred to as a “legal high”, Salvia Divinorum has long been known as “Seer’s Sage” for its hallucinogenic affects.
By Jennifer Miller
MOUNT HOREB, Wisconsin (YN) - Heroin, cocaine, marijuana are among the street drugs we’re used to hearing about. But have you ever heard of Salvia Divinorum?
Salvia Divinorum isn’t illegal in Wisconsin, but Sergeant Gordie Disch of Dane County’s Narcotics and Gang Task Force says it’s a hallucinogen that can cause unconsciousness and short term memory loss and drug cops are seeing more of it in Downtown Madison as kids
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Dodging Bullets In The War On Drugs
“Any one in law enforcement around Dane County would echo the same thing—there are more weapons around these days,” Ricksecker warns. “It’s dangerous for normal citizens, it’s dangerous for the criminals themselves, and it’s much more dangerous these days for members of law enforcement.”
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) There is a new arsenal in the war on drugs, and it’s more dangerous and more powerful than even the most-seasoned drug cops have ever seen. Unfortunately…it belongs to the bad guys.
It’s not unusual for a drug trafficker to be armed to protect his business against robbery or the police, but Dane County drug cops are running into more than just handguns while executing search warrants these days. One search conducted by the Narcotics and Gang Task Force and authorities from Dodge County late last month
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What Every College Kid Needs To Know
“Saying, ‘Have fun at school, don't rape anyone!’ isn't very effective when most adolescents' understanding of rape, coercion, and most of all consensual enthusiastic sexual activity is so severely limited."
By Jennifer Miller
MOUNT HOREB, Wisconsin (YN) - Sending a son or daughter off to college for the first time is both an exciting and frightening proposition. It’s thrilling to see your child take that first step toward independence, yet it’s scary when you think of all the things they could run into that they may not be prepared to handle. Things like alcohol abuse and sexual assault.
Often those two are intertwined, and Kelly Anderson, Ex
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Safety First in the Madison School District
The 2008-2009 school year was a success from a safety and security standpoint, and there's every reason to be positive about the school year that starts September First.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) - As parents send their kids back to classes in the Madison Metropolitan School District in may be with a bit of dread. After all, when there’s trouble in the schools, it leads the news, and parents can’t help but be concerned about their child’s safety and the child’s ability to learn in what could be perceived as an unsafe environment. But District Security Chief Luis Yudice says despite the headlines,
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KFC's Latest Offering Has Health Experts Reeling
Famusa says the calories are the least concern. She says it’s the amount of overall fat and saturated fat that are the biggest issues, dubbing the Double Down a “heart attack on a plate”.
By Jennifer Miller
Madison, WI (YN) - I love bacon. In fact if it were up to me, bacon would figure prominently on the food pyramid as one of those items you should eat early and often. So, when Kentucky Fried Chicken came out with its new offering, The Double Down (with bacon), my interest was immediately piqued.
This isn’t any old sandwich, no. What you have are two pieces of deep fried chicken breast acting as the bun. In the middle are
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