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The Journal Times Friday, december 21, 2018 A9 1 NEWS walk home from the bar. A man and a woman al- legedly got into a fight at the bar, despite there being a restraining order between the two. A bar- tender reportedly told them to it but try to stop any domestic violence from occurring. Two operating while intoxi- cated arrests for individuals who had been drinking at the bar. In March 2017, a suspicious death occurred for an individ- ual last hours involved drinking at When police asked for surveillance footage, they reportedly received a blank USB drive, after which the owner allegedly told police, then, I guess we have no while intoxicated.

In May 2017, a Waterford po- lice officer cited for con- tinually allowing smoking inside the bar. In July 2017, two men were cited for assault after fighting in the bar. In October 2017, an alleged brawl occurred at during a Halloween celebration, for which at least one woman was charged with disorderly conduct. In March 2018, a woman was charged with battery for punching a man who she felt had encroached upon personal In May 2018, al- legedly a patron who later needed medical atten- tion after falling off of a bar stool at a nearby tavern. Suspended From A7 MARK SOMMERHAUSER MADISON Tony Evers has picked to lead the state Department of Transportation a vocal advocate for more revenue for transportation projects: Craig Thompson, who leads the Wis- consin Transportation Develop- ment Association.

A source close to the Evers tran- sition not authorized to be identi- fied confirmed Thompson will be the pick. Evers is expected to formally announce the pick Friday in Mad- ison, where he will hold a press conference to unveil additional cabinet appointments. The tran- sition source did not indicate who, in addition to Thompson, will be announced. Thompson, 49, is executive director of the Wisconsin Trans- portation Devel- opment Associa- tion, an influential ra ta i advocacy group. Its members in- clude businesses, unions, citizen groups, local units of government and individuals that back velopment and maintenance of a strong, interconnected transpor- tation The role of transportation sec- retary is seen as crucial to support for boosting the revenue stream for road, bridge and transit projects.

To do so, Evers a Democrat who will be- come governor in January must win support during the 2019 bud- get debate from a GOP Legislature divided on the issue. Thompson, when asked about the appointment, declined to comment for this story. Like other Cabinet posts, appointment would be subject to a majority confirma- tion vote by the state Senate. role with the transportation association in- cludes being its public spokes- man, providing analysis of trans- portation legislation and policy, and registering to lobby for the group. His background Thompson lives in Madison and is a Racine native.

He has never worked for or held a partisan of- fice. His includes more than a decade with the transpor- tation association and, prior to that, working as legislative di- rector for the Wisconsin Counties Association. Thompson also has been ap- pointed to boards and committees by governors of both parties, including Tommy Thompson, Scott McCallum, Jim Doyle and Scott accord- ing to his bio on the website. If confirmed, Thompson would take the helm of a department that has been a political hot-button in recent years. The current DOT secretary under outgoing Republican Gov.

Scott Walker is Dave Ross, who took the post in early 2017. Ross succeeded Mark Gottlieb, a former GOP lawmaker, who re- signed after clashing with Walker on the need for more funding for transportation projects which Gottlieb viewed as necessary but Walker opposed. de- parture came just after he testi- fied to lawmakers that state data show the share of state highways in Wisconsin in poor condition would double during the next de- cade without an infusion of new revenue. Transportation funding was the key stumbling block to comple- tion of the most recent state bud- get, enacted about 10 weeks over- due in September 2017. Assembly Republicans acknowledged the need for more transportation revenue to keep road conditions from deteriorating and were open to addressing it by increasing gas taxes or vehicle registration fees or collecting highway tolls.

But Senate Republicans were divided on the issue. Walker, meanwhile, opposed any tax or fee increase not offset elsewhere in the budget with a correspond- ing reduction to another tax or fee. Walker and lawmakers ulti- mately settled on a budget that included only a tiny revenue boost for transportation, through fee hikes on hybrid vehicles. It also kept on schedule most ongoing major highway projects, includ- ing expansions of Verona Road in Fitchburg and Interstate 39-90 from the Madison area to the Il- linois line. But to do so, the budget in- creased the already heavy reliance on borrowing to fund transportation projects, adding more than $400 million to the tab.

It cut about $80 million in fund- ing for upkeep of state highways, which DOT data has indicated may accelerate their deteriora- tion And it leaves in doubt the future of planned major highway projects. Report: Thomas choice to lead WisDOT Racine native an advocate for boosting transportation revenue Thompson WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY meet aliana; looking for herforever home. aliana and many other animals are available for adoption from the Wisconsin Humane racine campus, 2706 chicory road. Find your perfect match today. The racine campus adoption hours are 2-7 p.m.

monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday. LOOKING FOR A FOREVER HOME IVAN MORENO Associated Press MILWAUKEE Milwaukee prosecutors charged the father and stepmother of a 15-year-old girl who was tortured, beaten and forced to stay in an empty room for months, according to documents released Thursday. Authorities discovered the abuse Dec. 5 at a home in Cudahy when a police officer went to the house on a report of a teenage girl throwing boiling water on another teen, prosecutors said.

The crim- inal complaint alleges that the parents enlisted the help of other underage children in the house to harm the 15-year-old girl, who was not identified. The police officer found the girl in tattered, soiled clothes and with lacerations and bruises on her face. What the officer shocked prosecutors said. The girl told investigators she was pulled from school in No- vember of 2017 and restricted to her room for the last few months. When she was found, she know it was December.

unclear from the charging documents what precipitated the abuse. Kevin Michael Boon, 47, and Felicia Boon, 34, each face six charges, including false imprison- ment, chronic neglect of a child, and physical abuse of a child. Both are out on $10,000 bail and have been ordered to have no contact with the victim and can only see some of their other children under supervision from child protective services. Their attorneys did not imme- diately respond to messages for comment. According to a criminal com- plaint, other juveniles in the home repeatedly hit the victim with a metal pole and belt, burned her with water and used zip ties to re- strain her.

They also withheld food and water for days. Prosecutors say Kevin Boon installed an alarm in the room where the 15-year-old girl was staying to find out if she ever left. Prosecutors say the girl man- aged to sneak out of her room and used a cell phone to call an aunt to ask for help and she called police. The Milwaukee District Attor- Office said they release information about the other chil- dren in the house because minors. If charged, it will be in court and the in- formation be public.

Parents charged in torture of teenaged girl Marshall woman pleads guilty to hiding corpse MADISON A woman charged in connection to the death of a Sun Prairie man has pleaded guilty to hiding a corpse. WMTV reports that 52-year- old Meichelle Goss, of Marshall, entered the plea Thursday in Dane County Court. She was charged in the death of Jesse Faber, who was fatally shot in January. body was allegedly wrapped in plastic and driven to a storage unit in Rio. His body was found there a few days later.

Sixty-year-old Daniel Lieske is charged in the case with first degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. His trial is set to begin on January 7, 2019. Sentencing for Goss is sched- uled for April. Attorney General Schimel reflects on election loss MILWAUKEE Ousted Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says in his first post-election interview that his defeat to Democrat Josh Kaul was of a death by a thousand The interview on a Milwau- kee radio station on Wednesday was also his first since the Re- publican-controlled Legislature passed bills earlier this month in a lame-duck ses- sion taking pow- ers away from the Attorney Gener- office before Kaul takes over. Schimel says he thinks the changes make a few things a little Schimel says factors in his de- feat included voter opinions on health care and protecting in- surance coverage for pre-existing conditions, legalizing marijuana referendums around the state that boosted Democratic turn- out and opposition to Gov.

Scott Walker. Schimel also says did lose votes I think because people are not happy with some of President language that he uses in his Judge Lisa Neubauer files for Supreme court RACINE The chief judge of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals has filed for candidacy to become a Supreme Court justice. Judge Lisa Neubauer filed over 5,500 signatures on Thursday, and is the first candidate to file for the 2019 spring election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Neubauer has been on the ap- peals court for 10 years and has been chief judge since 2015. She was a litigation attorney for nearly two decades at Foley Lardner before joining the Appellate Court and also served as a law clerk for Judge Barbara Crabb, then-Chief Judge of the U.S.

District Court in western district. Neubauer says been en- dorsed by more than 300 judges, 45 district attorneys and 20 sher- iffs and that volunteers from ev- ery corner of the state collected signatures for her Supreme Court candidacy. associated Press IN BRIEF NeubauerSchimel JULIE WATSON AND PAUL ELIAS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO After bat- tling U.S. immigration authorities for more than a year for the right to enter the country and flying half- way around the world, a Yemeni mother finally got to hold her dy- ing 2-year-old son. A photograph released late Wednesday by Council on Amer- ican-Islamic Relations shows Shaima Swileh cradling her son Abdullah at a hospital in Oakland, California, where he is on life sup- port.

Swileh arrived at San Francisco International Airport on Wednes- day night after the advocacy group sued the U.S. to grant her waiver from the Trump travel ban. She got a visa after a 17-month legal fight. Swileh, wearing dark glasses and a white headscarf, was mobbed by friends and reporters at the air- port. is a difficult time for our family, but we are blessed to be to- the father, Ali Has- san, said at the airport, asking for privacy.

The couple was driven to see their son at UCSF Benioff Chil- Hospital in Oakland, where Hassan brought Abdullah in the fall to get treatment for a genetic brain disorder. Hassan, a U.S. citizen who lives in Stockton, and Swileh moved to Egypt after marrying in war-torn Yemen in 2016 and had been trying to get a visa for Swileh since 2017 so the family could move to Cal- ifornia. Citizens from Yemen and four other mostly Muslim countries, along with North Korea and Ven- ezuela, are restricted from com- ing to the United States under the travel ban enacted under President Donald Trump. When the health wors- ened, Hassan went ahead to Cal- ifornia in October to get their son help.

As the couple fought for a waiver, doctors put Abdullah on life support. wife is calling me every day wanting to kiss and hold her son for the one last Hassan said, choking up at a news confer- ence this week. He started losing hope and was considering pulling his son off life support to end his suffering. But then a hospital social worker reached out to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which sued Monday, said Basim Elkarra, executive director of the group in Sacramento. Mom overcomes travel ban to hold dying son.