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Friday, May 10, 2002 The Capital Times 3A Alleged bomb thrower sought burg, were tentatively charged with burglary while armed and concealing identity. According to Sgt. Gary Kaschub of the Fitchburg Police Department, a man in the 2800 block of Dover Circle reported an intruder with a baseball bat inside his home at about 5:19 a.m. The resident and his family were sleeping when the family dog started barking. The resident got up, went downstairs and looked out the window.

Seeing nothing unusual, he turned around and encountered a man with a bat. He held it cocked, Kaschub said, as if he were about to strike. Instead, the man fled the house and got in a car. Officers arriving at the residence saw a vehicle with its headlights off fleeing the area at a high rate of speed. Officers pulled the car over and arrested the three men.

Through interviews investigators learned that the men also allegedly had burglarized an open garage on Meadowood Drive in the city of Madison and had broken into several cars in Madison and Middleton. By Steven Elbow The Capital Timet Prosecutors have issued a warrant for a Madison man they say threw a homemade bomb at another mans home after threatening to kill him and his family. The bomb did not go off, but Kevin L. Hoye, 21, faces charges of possessing explosives for an unlawful purpose and second-degree recklessly endangering safety. According to a criminal complaint filed Thursday, Hoye allegedly began calling the victim in January and threatening to use a bomb to destroy the victims house in the 1000 block of Painted Post Road and kill his family.

The threats followed a dispute over the alleged victims relationship with Hoyes former girlfriend, Madison police officer Phil Moore said. According to the criminal complaint: On the evening of Jan. 10, the victim was looking out his window and saw a car stop in front of his driveway. Hoye allegedly got out of the back passenger seat, lit an object with a fuse and threw the object toward the house, hitting the garage door. The victim went outside and found POLICE REPORT an aspirin bottle containing black powder rigged with duct tape and fuses, the complaint says, and the victim went inside and the phone rang, and when he answered it he allegedly heard Hoye saying, Bang, bang, then hang up.

An analysis by the state Crime Lab determined that the powder inside the bottle was a type of powder found in pyrotechnic or explosive devices. The ounce of explosive powder inside the bottle was sufficient to cause bodily harm or property damage, according to an officer with the Dane County Bomb Squad. Break-in arrests: Three men suspected in numerous area break-ins were arrested Thursday after an armed encounter with a resident of a Fitchburg home. Matthew B. Mollison, 18, and Eugene Chrisler, 17, both of Madison, and Edward D.

Mocanu, 18, of Fitch Panel to study insurance pools Budget, low demand spur zoo to close at night in summer Goal: Cut costs, improve availability McCormick, who will chair the task force, was joined at a State Capitol press conference Thursday by representatives of the Wisconsin Alliance of Cities, Wisconsin Towns Association, Wisconsin Counties Association, Wisconsin Association of School Boards and the League of Wisconsin Municipalities. Ken Cole, executive director of the Association of School Boards, said skyrocketing health insurance costs was stifling teacher pay. He said the average cost of school district employees health benefits statewide this year rose about 20 percent from last year, with the cost of a family insurance plan rising from $8,024 per employee to $9,646. Projections indicate a higher premium increase next year, Cole said. Though most school districts already take part in the WEA Insurance Trust pool, Cole said that having a larger pool with different governance could be more effective in cutting costs.

The Alliance of Cities presented a chart showing that health insurance costs rose 28 percent for Ashland, 23 percent for La Crosse and 34 percent for Marshfield from 2000 to 2001. Kent Woods, speaking for the Wisconsin Towns Association, said that towns sometimes have difficulty obtaining insurance at all, much less at a reasonable rate, because they have few employees and they are often older people. Craig Thompson of the Wisconsin Counties Association said the issue was paramount to the taxpayers of the state, who ultimately bear the cost of soaring insurance rates. I believe the states role is to ensure an equal playing Held to guarantee market competition, McCormick said. We will work with local partners, state agencies and the health insurance industry.

Legislators serving on the task force with McCormick will be Reps. Jeff Stone, R-Greenfield, vice chairman; Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem; Dan Meyer, R-Eagle River; Jeff Plale, D-South Milwaukee; Dan Schooff, D-Beloit; and John Steinbrink, D-Pleasant Prairie. By Anita Weier The Capital Timet The possibility of forming a health insurance pool that would reduce costs for towns, villages, cities, counties and school districts in Wisconsin was raised by state Rep. Terri McCormick on Thursday. McCormick, R-Appleton, said that such a pool would be a mqjor option considered by a new legislative task force appointed by Assembly Speaker Scott Jensen, R-Waukesha, to focus on the issue of rapidly rising insurance costs for municipalities.

If a local government health care insurance pool is created statewide that would be available to local governments, it could share the risk and create savings, McCormick said. If we establish a pool it would be one option. It is not my intent to create a mandate and have the state involved. It is to create a mechanism to help them do their job and then get out of the way. There has to be flexibility for local governments.

We would explore what options are not currently available and make it available, so local governments have the opportunity to use tax dollars wisely. mand. Except when there was an event, especially a corporate picnic, the zoo pretty much clears out. There are not a lot of people there after 5 p.m., he said. The only nights the zoo will be open this summer are for a couple of corporate events, an annual benefit dance and three August concerts.

Last summer the zoo was open until 8 p.m. daily. Associated Press Vilas Park Zoo will close its doors during summer evenings for the first time in its more than 90-year history. The free-admission zoo one of only a few in the country will close at 5 p.m. between Memorial Day and Labor Day.

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