MENASHA, Wis. (AP) - Four people are dead and another person is injured after a shooting on a bridge in eastern Wisconsin that a police chief says appears to be a “random act.”
The Menasha Police Department said in a statement that the shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. Sunday on the Fox Cities Trestle Trail bridge.
Menasha Police Chief Tim Styka told Post-Crescent Media (https://post.cr/1GUokephttps://post.cr/1GUokep ) late Sunday night that the shooter was among those who died. The man was pronounced dead at a hospital.
According to Styka, authorities think the shooting was a “random act” and don’t believe there’s any other threat to the community. He said no responding officers fired their weapons.
The newspaper reports the lone surviving victim underwent surgery and was in critical condition. None of the victims was immediately identified.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Likely Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker made no secret about what he saw as the failures of Mitt Romney’s last run for the White House, devoting an entire chapter of his book to the topic.
But it turns out the Wisconsin governor, way back in 2000, also aired sharp criticism about George W. Bush’s efforts in his first presidential bid.
Walker, who was then a 32-year-old state Assembly member, wrote an open memo to Bush he titled “Campaign Strategy” in which he offered detailed advice on how he thought the then-Texas governor should be crafting his message to win the presidency, including what type of television ads he should run.
Walker, now in his second term as governor, is expected to launch his own presidential campaign within the next couple months. Bush’s brother, Jeb Bush, will likely be among those duking it out with Walker for the Republican nomination.
The open letter to George W. Bush and the Romney critique provide a window into Walker’s thinking on how a presidential campaign should craft its message. And while Walker has spent nearly his entire adult life in elected office after he dropped out of college with about a year to go, the 15-year-old memo shows that how to win the White House has been on Walker’s mind for many years.
The advice outlined in the 800-word open letter to Bush is typical of Walker, said Mark Graul, a Republican strategist who ran Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign in Wisconsin. Graul said Walker also offered unsolicited advice that year and in 2006, when Graul was running the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Green.
“In all of my conversations with him about political strategy, it’s never been about tearing the other guy down,” Graul said. “It’s been about what were my guy’s ideas and what was the best way to communicate it to the people we were trying to persuade to vote for us.”
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WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) - A group of central Wisconsin Muslims wants to build a mosque in the Wausau area to help meet the growing number of worshippers.
The Islamic Society of Central Wisconsin has purchased a building for the mosque and hopes to have construction complete within the next two years.
Adeel Aslam, a member and general secretary of the Islamic Society of Central Wisconsin, told Daily Herald Media (https://wdhne.ws/1R2NrhYhttps://wdhne.ws/1R2NrhY ) the Muslim community in the region has grown since the first mosque, Masjid Al-Noor, opened nine years ago in Marshfield.
Aslam says the group now is large enough to support a second house of worship.
About 15 families are regular members of the Marshfield mosque, which draws Muslims from the entire north central part of Wisconsin.
The Wausau area has about 30 Muslim families, and a new mosque would also draw members from Stevens Point and areas to the north, Aslam said.
“It has been very difficult for them to have to travel to Marshfield and other cities that have a masjid (a mosque) to attend prayer and services,” he said.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) - An eighth case of bird flu virus has been detected in Wisconsin.
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection said Sunday the latest case is in a commercial turkey flock in Barron County. About 16,000 breeding turkeys and nearly 42,000 hatching eggs are affected. It is the fourth reported case in Barron County.
The property was immediately quarantined. Remaining birds will be euthanized and will not enter the flood supply.
Bird flu was first detected in Wisconsin at a commercial chicken flock in Jefferson County on April 13. The number of affected birds has risen to more than 1.5 million in Wisconsin.
A ban on poultry movement to shows, exhibitions and swap meets in Barron, Chippewa, Jefferson and Juneau counties remains in effect through the end of May.
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