Wisconsin Afternoon State News for Thursday 3/15/18
>>Assembly Leader Heads Trade Delegation To Canada
(Madison, WI) — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos will head a seven-member bipartisan delegation of lawmakers to a trade conference in Canada. That gathering will bring legislators from the U-S, Canada and Mexico together in Quebec City this weekend. Three Republican representatives and three Democrat representatives with join Vos on the trip. He is scheduled to lead a panel discussion Saturday entitled, “The Role of Legislators in International Trade.”
>>Assembly Speaker Open To Special Session On School Safety
(Madison, WI) — Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says every Wisconsin parent should feel confident their child is safe at school. The Rochester Republican says he’s open to the idea of re-convening for a special session on school safety. Governor Scott Walker hasn’t committed to calling lawmakers back to the Capitol yet, but he says there is some strong interest in a school safety bill. Walker says he is working on developing such a measure and he has promised the idea of calling that special session will come up again, before next week.
>>Health Officials: Milwaukee Has 1 Of Highest STD Rates Of Any City
(Milwaukee, WI) — Milwaukee officials plan to use social media to reach out to young people after discovery of what is being called a H-I-V and S-T-D “cluster” in the city. Milwaukee is home to one of the highest S-T-D rates of any American city and the AIDS Resource Center of Wisconsin says the cluster of 125 people includes some children. Experts say confirmed data shows 40-to-50 percent of high school age young people in Wisconsin are having sex. That’s one of the factors leading to more than four-thousand cases of gonorrhea in Milwaukee last year — another figure that leads the nation.
>>Wausau Police Standoff Ends With Apparent Suicide
(Wausau, WI) — Wausau Police report a standoff on the city’s northeast side has ended in the death of a 35-year-old man. His name hasn’t been released. Officers say they spent almost 24 hours trying to make a welfare check on him. When they tried to stop him Wednesday he took off and a short pursuit ended back at his house. After the man went inside, officers say they heard a gunshot as they approached. Several nearby homes were evacuated as a perimeter was set up. SWAT teams from the Marshfield Police Department and Wood County responded and, when they entered the house, they found the man dead. His death is being called a suicide.
>>Drunk Driving Suspect Had 4-Year-Old In Car
(Menomonee Falls, WI) — Reports started coming in Tuesday afternoon of a black Toyota hitting several cars on Interstate 41 and failing to stop. Officers with several law enforcement agencies tried to pull that driver over, but he kept going on flat tires after stop sticks had been deployed. When he finally stopped, a breathalyzer test showed his blood-alcohol content reading was nearly double the legal limit. The fact he had a four-year-old passenger makes the crime more serious, meaning the suspect’s third O-W-I conviction, if it comes, could send him to prison for four years. His name hasn’t been released. Menomonee Falls Police turned the child over to Child Protective Services.
Source: WRJC.com
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