Saturday, January 12, 2013
Josephine Sardina had just smoked marijuana and was texting when her Cadillac Escalade hit David Budge on Oct. 15, according to the criminal complaint.
A 31-year-old Greendale woman faces 25 years in prison after striking and killing David Budge of South Milwaukee while Budge was walking on Loomis Road in October, police say. Josephine Sardina had just smoked marijuana and was texting when her Cadillac Escalade hit Budge on Oct. 15, according to the criminal complaint. Sardina was charged with homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on Friday. Sardina told Greenfield police, according to the complaint, she was traveling northeast on West Loomis road and that she saw Budge walking on the same side of the road but in the opposite direction. She felt a thud and thought she may have hit a parked car, she told police. She looked back and saw Budge on the …
Friday, January 4, 2013
The number ends four years with fewer than 600 annual traffic deaths, and represents a 6 percent increase over 2011.
More people died on Wisconsin roads in 2012 than in any of the previous four years, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation reported this week. The state closed out 2012 with 601 traffic deaths, 36 more than 2011 and two more than the previous five-year average. The tally also ended the state's run of four consecutive years with fewer than 600 traffic deaths. Before the 2008-2011 period, the last time the state had traffic death numbers that low was from 1924-1927, the DOT reported. The traffic fatalities total for last year included 101 motorcycle drivers, 13 motorcycle passengers, 44 pedestrians and 10 bicyclists. Nationally, traffic fatalities were up about 7 percent for the first nine months of 2012 compared with 2011, according to…
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Several big news stories swept through Greenfield in 2012, from tragic to disappointing to exciting.
Several big news stories swept through Greenfield in 2012, from tragic to disappointing to exciting. Here is a recap of some of the most important stories from the last 12 months: 1. For the second straight year, a Greenfield resident was murdered. On July 14, Christopher Gish fatally stabbed Maggie Litwicki, the mother of his two children in Litwicki’s home in the 4400 block of West Morgan Avenue. Gish was caught early the next morning and admitted being angry with Litwicki, whom he said was going to take the couple’s two children and not allow him to see them. Gish pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree reckless homicide in October. The stabbing occurred 13 months after and less than a block away from murder of Vincent Rath, who …
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
The accident, which happened Monday afternoon, has some saying Greenfield needs more sidewalks.
When a 54-year-old South Milwaukee man, identified by TMJ4 as David Budge, was struck and killed by a Cadillac Escalade on Monday afternoon, he was walking against traffic on the east side of Loomis Road. There is no sidewalk on the side of Loomis Road that Budge was walking. There is, however, a sidewalk on the west side of the road. Former Alderman Richard Eaton told TMJ4 he lobbied for sidewalks along the city's busiest streets 10 years ago before being recalled, and political activist Robert Heule and others expressed concerns about the lack of sidewalks in the area on Greenfield Patch. Heule wrote: Years ago when Loomis was being reconstructed, the Wisconsin D.O.T. decided not install sidewalks on that part of Loomis. The reason being…
Anonymous
9:14 pm on Saturday, February 16, 2013
A woman named Stephanie Andresen of Oak Creek, WI hit and killed my father. He was walking home a little bit after 5pm in January of 2010. Ms. Andresen had THC and opiates in her system when she hit him. In the report, it stated that she looked up (from what, I still do not know) and noticed my father. He died at the scene. Ms. Andresen got away with killing him -- she did not even receive a … more ›