I jumped off a perfectly good pier and found myself in deep water - ninety foot to be exact - tired and exhausted in the middle of White Lake - yet I made it back to shore - caught a ride on a Pontoon Boat back - and went back where the journey began!
And I am madly in love with the Princess of the Lake - Angela Faith - and I want to marry her - despite Harry's warning that it is better to be alone than wish you were alone! LOL!
Red circle marks the spot where I became exhausted.
RACINE — Racine County Sheriff’s deputies reported finding narcotic drugs in the pockets of an art lecturer from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside who was pulled over after allegedly driving erratically and speeding on the interstate.
Benjamin Grant, 40, of Milwaukee, has been charged with a felony count of possession of narcotic drugs and a misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance.
Grant is an associate lecturer for UW-Parkside’s Art Department, according to the university’s website, and teaches introduction to design and drawing classes, as well as two higher-level courses. A spokesman for UW-Parkside confirmed that Grant is still employed by the university.
According to a criminal complaint:
At 7:35 a.m. on Wednesday, an officer was on patrol when dispatch advised of a reckless driver located on Interstate 94 that was “weaving all over the roadway.” As the officer made his way to I-94, dispatch advised the vehicle had nearly hit a semi-truck and was tailgating the vehicle in front of it. The car, later found to have been being driven by Grant, was going around 90 mph and other vehicles were attempting to move out of its way.
The vehicle exited the interstate on Highway KR and almost struck construction barriers while continuing to drive at high speeds. The vehicle then drove past a total of five construction road barricades in a closed road area, the Racine County Sheriff’s Office reported. Officers stopped the vehicle on Highway 31 near its intersection with KR.
The man driving the vehicle, identified as Grant, told officers was headed to work at UW-Parkside from his house in Milwaukee. He said he had been an art professor there for three years, according to the complaint. Grant said he was attempting to follow his GPS while driving.
Grant was arrested for OWI after field sobriety tests were performed and then was taken to the hospital for a blood draw. When an officer searched Grant, “a small, green glass vial with an eye dropper” was found, according to the complaint.
The criminal complaint stated that Grant told deputies the vial contained Clonazepam, a medication used for seizures. Deputies reported they also found one orange, oval shaped pill located in Grant’s front pocket. It was identified as a form of Amphetamine and Dextroamphetamine, a medication used for ADHD, thus making it a schedule II narcotic drug.
Grant stated he wasn’t aware of the pill in his pocket and that his friend had worn the pants he was currently wearing earlier. He claimed to have a prescription for the Clonazepam, which “he advised he crushed and filtered so the binder was removed and then mixed it with a solution of DSMO,” another chemical compound that makes it easier for the body to absorb other medications. According to law enforcement, Grant said stated “he can volumetric dose himself with smaller than the prescribed doses due to him struggling with his memory.” He also denied having used alcohol or other drugs.
Grant was given a $1,000 cash bond in Racine County Circuit court on Thursday.
A preliminary hearing is set for Sept. 17 at the Racine County Law Enforcement Center, 717 Wisconsin Ave., online court records indicate. He remained in custody as of 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon at the Racine County Jail.
Ruth Teeter, right, and her granddaughter Iris Knapp get some cheese curds at the Marco Pollo food truck of Milwaukee during the inaugural Franksville Food Truck Fest on Sept. 7, 2018. This Friday, the third annual Franksville Food Truck Fest will kick off.
Journal Times file photo
FRANKSVILLE — The Franksville Food Truck Festival is still on, even as festivals and fairs and baseball games and family events have been canceled throughout the year.
The third annual two-day festival will start from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday and run from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, with about 20 food trucks available each day at Caledonia-Mount Pleasant Memorial Park, a.k.a. Franksville Park, 9614 Northwestern Ave.
Franksville Craft Beer Garden co-owner Molly Michel said that the Franksville Craft Beer Garden has tripled the number of tables it has set up and the park contains “over 300,000 square feet to spread out,” allowing social distancing to still be maintained, while patrons are encouraged to bring their own chairs. Staff also wears personal protective equipment and disposable cups are used.
Missing out on baseball at Miller Park? Well, the Famous Racing Sausages will be making appearances too, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
Molly Michel
Submitted photo
“That’s a pretty big deal,” Michel said. “We haven’t had any festivals and fairs this year … There’s still an ability to do this safely.”
In addition to craft beer, other drinks like White Claw hard seltzers and wine are available for purchase. A free mini-golf course will be set up for the festival.
Two Milwaukee police officers who faced prior misconduct allegations have resigned while under internal investigation for punching a homeless man accused of robbery and dropping him off in an alley on the city's north side, miles from where he was arrested and against the man's wishes.
The two officers, Eric Ratzmann and Eric Fjeld, faced allegations of excessive force, according to the Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office, which reviewed the case and determined the officers' actions did not rise to the level of criminal charges.
"Both members resigned in lieu of termination," Sgt. Sheronda Grant, police spokeswoman, said in an email to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
They're joining the ranks of at least 246 law enforcement officers in the state including six from the Milwaukee Police Department who have quit instead of being fired from 2017 to June 2020, according to a Wisconsin Department of Justice database obtained by the Journal Sentinel through an open records request.
Another 147 officers in Wisconsin resigned prior to the completion of an internal affairs investigation in the same time period, according to the state records.
On Tuesday, another Milwaukee officer, Michael Mattioli, resigned from the department while under internal investigation for his actions during an off-duty fight that prosecutors say led to the death of Joel Acevedo. Mattioli has been charged with homicide in that case.
Ratzmann and Fjeld both have been the subject of high-profile misconduct claims but had kept their jobs until now.
Ratzmann was cleared of wrongdoing after a cellphone video showed him pulling a suspected drunken driver from a Lamborghini and hitting him in 2012. Fjeld was among a group of officers suspended for failing to fully investigate a hit-and-run crash that killed a Navy veteran a year earlier.
Top police leaders in Rochester, New York, announced their retirements Tuesday amid nightly protests over the city’s handling of the suffocation death of Daniel Prude, with the outgoing chief accusing critics of trying to “destroy my character and integrity.”
In a video published by a far-right media outlet, a La Crosse Catholic priest attacks the leaders of the church, and degrades practicing Catholics who are Democrats, calling them "Godless" hypocrites who are going to hell.
"Here's a memo to clueless baptized Catholics out there: You cannot be Catholic and be a Democrat. Period," Father James Altman said in the video.
"Their party platform absolutely is against everything the Catholic church teaches. So just quit pretending that you're Catholic and vote Democrat. Repent of your support of that party and its platform, or face the fires of hell," he said.
Altman is the pastor at La Crosse's St. James the Less, a Catholic parish located on the North Side of La Crosse. The Diocese of La Crosse said that it has no statement on the video.
In the video, which was published on Aug. 30 by Alpha News MN, the pastor takes a direct aim at the hierarchies in the Catholic church, calling leaders hypocrites and "gutless cowards" for not getting more involved in politics and taking a stronger stance against certain issues.
His strongest message, though, was for Democrats within the church.
Altman rattled through the Democratic platform, using conspiracy theories and exaggerations to denounce many of them, from climate change to immigration, and women's rights and systemic racism.
A 3-year-old girl died from child abuse Friday in Austin on the West Side.
She was found unresponsive in bed about 12:30 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Lockwood Avenue, Chicago police said.
The girl, identified as Lehleni Edwards, was taken to West Suburban Medical center in Oak Park, where she was pronounced dead about 1:21 a.m., the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
An autopsy found she died of multiple injuries from child abuse and ruled her death a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is investigating, a spokesperson for the department said.
A 3-year-old girl died of child abuse Sept. 4, 2020, in Austin.Adobe Stock Photo
A 3-year-old girl died from child abuse Friday in Austin on the West Side.
She was found unresponsive in bed about 12:30 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Lockwood Avenue, Chicago police said.
The girl, identified as Lehleni Edwards, was taken to West Suburban Medical center in Oak Park, where she was pronounced dead about 1:21 a.m., the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
An autopsy found she died of multiple injuries from child abuse and ruled her death a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is investigating, a spokesperson for the department said.
A Portland protester rioter caught fire after running through a molotov cocktail thrown by a comrade Saturday night, during the city's 100th straight of protests.
The man attempted to douse the flames as one onlooker shouted "stop, drop and roll!"
Play by play:
Portland police worked with state troopers to force the crowd to disperse, thwarting their attempts to march to the nearby East Precinct, where dozens of police officers were waiting for them, according to Oregon Live.
Dozens of officers arrived to block the crowd’s path on Stark Street. Around 9:20 p.m., some people in the crowd threw at least three Molotov cocktail-like devices toward the police line. Another person lit a firework. One of the devices appeared to wound the foot of a bystander.
The series of explosions prompted police to immediately declare the gathering a riot and order people to leave. Police forced the crowd east and, within minutes, released tear gas onto the crowd. -Oregon Live
Portland PD deployed tear gas as protesters tossed fireworks in the street.
Police eventually rushed in and took down several protesters.
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Benjamin Grant, 40, of Milwaukee, has been charged with a felony count of possession of narcotic drugs and a misdemeanor count of possession of a controlled substance.
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