Wisconsin
Shooting victim IDs deputy as gunman in 911 call
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Police say a wounded Wisconsin woman called 911 before she died and identified the man who shot her as her brother-in-law, a former sheriff's deputy.
A Fitchburg police affidavit says Kacee Tollefsbol called 911 around 1 p.m. Friday and said Andy Steele had shot her in the back. When police arrived at Steele's home they also found the body of his 39-year-old wife, Ashlee, who was fatally shot.
The affidavit in support of homicide charges against Steele says the 38-year-old Tollefsbol, of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, also told a detective at UW hospital that her brother-in-law had shot her. She died at the hospital.
Steele has been arrested but not charged in the shootings.
Washington
Activists file complaint over 25 monkey deaths
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - An animal-rights group has filed a federal complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture against an Everett research lab over the deaths of 25 monkeys shipped to Washington.
The Seattle Times reports the Ohio-based group, Stop Animal Exploitation Now, says in its complaint that SNBL USA should be punished for allowing the animals to die or become so weak they had to be euthanized.
SNBL reports the animals arrived in Houston from Cambodia thirsty and thin. Some were taken to a facility in Texas and others were loaded into trucks for the nearly three-day trip to Everett.
Five died in transit and another 20 died or were euthanized shortly after arrival.
A company officer said Monday they were devastated by the deaths because SNBL takes animal care very seriously.
Oklahoma
4 found dead in suspected murder-suicide
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Four people, including two young children, have been shot to death in a Tulsa apartment and authorities say they're investigating the case as a triple murder-suicide. A 2-year-old child was discovered unharmed.
Tulsa police say a 35-year-old man fatally shot his estranged wife, their 5-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son before shooting himself.
Police say the shootings happened after the wife, who was 22-years-old, dropped off their children at his apartment Monday. She returned later that day with her roommate's 2-year-old daughter.
Authorities say the 2-year-old girl, who wasn't related to the alleged gunman, was in the apartment during the shooting but was not hurt.
The bodies were discovered early Tuesday. No names have been released, but Tulsa police said in a press release that the victims were from Guatemala.
Wisconsin
Football recruit sentenced in sexual assault case
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A former University of Wisconsin football recruit has been sentenced to a year in jail for sexually assaulting a woman during a visit to the Madison campus last December.
A judge also sentenced 18-year-old Dominic Cizauskas on Monday to probation after his jail term, and he will have to register as a sex offender.
The linebacker from Mukwonago was found guilty in June of third-degree sexual assault of an acquaintance in her dorm room.
The woman and Cizauskas testified that they had consensual sex in the past. Prosecutors argued that no matter what had happened before, the woman did not want to have sex with him that night and said no.
The district attorney wanted Cizauskas to serve one to two years. Cizauskas' attorney sought probation.
Maine
Pair of bear heads stolen from remote cabin
FARMINGTON, Maine (AP) - The person who broke into an off-the-grid cabin in remote western Maine didn't get away with money, jewelry or other valuables. Police say the thief took a pair of bear heads.
Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols says a Waterboro family reported last week that someone had broken into their cabin in secluded Alder Stream Township sometime over the summer.
Nichols tells the Morning Sentinel the family hadn't been to the cabin since April, so the exact time of the break-in is not known.
In addition to the stuffed bear heads, the thief also made off with two lawn chairs and three flashlights. The sheriff says the cabin's futons appear to have been slept in.
The owner said the bear heads had been in the family for 40 years.
Alabama
Police probe theft from Rosa Parks' old apartment
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Police say thieves have struck the apartment complex where Rosa Parks lived when she made history by refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a city bus.
Montgomery police Sgt. Denise Barnes said detectives are seeking suspects who ripped and stole copper wiring from Parks' former apartment and six other now-vacant units being renovated. Barnes said workers discovered the thefts Monday. Police believe the crimes happened between 4 p.m. Friday and Monday.
Parks' former apartment at 634 Cleveland Court is listed as her address in the 1955 police report following her arrest on a Montgomery city bus.
Her refusal to give up her seat in defiance of a Montgomery law sparked a yearlong bus boycott and became an enduring symbol of the U.S. Civil Rights movement.
South Dakota
Pierre asks judge to dismiss stun gun lawsuit
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Pierre officials want a judge to dismiss a federal lawsuit alleging that a police officer used excessive force by using a stun gun on an 8-year-old girl.
In its response to the lawsuit, the city argues that it, its former police chief and four officers are immune from being sued because they were acting in their capacity as government workers. It also denies that police used excessive force.
Authorities say the officer shot the girl with the stun gun from 5 or 6 feet away last October because she was suicidal and brandished a knife. The state Division of Criminal Investigation later concluded that the officer was justified in using his stun gun on the girl because it was the safest way to defuse the situation.
The girl's mother, Dawn Stenstrom, is seeking unspecified damages for what she alleges is a violation of her daughter's rights. She filed the lawsuit in July and the city filed its response last week.
In its response, the city doesn't deny that the incident occurred. It says one officer used the stun gun on the girl, "permitting the officers present to disarm her, prevent her from doing harm to herself and diffuse the situation." The defendants reject Stenstrom's assertions that "the force of the electricity shot through (the girl's) body, lifted her, and threw her against the wall."
The lawsuit lists the girl's weight as 70 pounds. One of Stenstrom's attorneys, Dana Hanna, has said the girl suffered physical, psychological and emotional injuries.
The mother and child now live on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.
