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PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) – One Portage Junior Prom attendee will be wearing the same dress her grandmother wore to her own prom over 60 years ago.

The Portage Daily Register reports Betty Dubberstein wore the ivory tiered dress when she was crowned 1954 Prom Queen at Princeton High School.

Now her granddaughter, Annmarie Dubberstein is wearing it to her prom Saturday.

The 78-year-old Neenah resident says she’s almost as excited as she was in 1954, when she paid $48 for it.

She planned to be on hand Saturday to watch the dress be reborn.

Betty Dubberstein had three sons, so she was never able to pass it down.

HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) – The inland sport fishing season is now open.

Gov. Scott Walker kicked it off Saturday by dropping a line at the Chippewa Flowage in Sawyer County, east of Hayward.

According to Walker’s office, sportfishing generates $2.3 billion in economic benefits and supports 22,000 jobs annually in Wisconsin.

Through Tuesday, nearly 411,000 anglers had purchased fishing licenses and nearly 94,000 had purchased trout stamps.

Fishing license sales are up 25 percent and trout stamp sales are up 19 percent from the same time last year.

GREEN BAY — The Green Bay Packers were busy in the sixth round of the 2015 NFL Draft. With their first selection in the round, they selected fullback Aaron Ripkowski from Oklahoma. Ripkowski, 6-1 257, carried the ball six times in 2014, three of those resulted in touchdowns.

The Packers went defense with their 2nd pick in the round. They drafted defensive lineman Christian Ringo with the 210th overall pick. The Louisiana-Lafayette standout had 20 tackles for loss last season including 12 sacks.

With their last pick of the day, the Packers selected Alabama-Birmingham tight end Kennard Backman. Backman caught 39 receptions for 399 yards and 3 touchdowns in 2014.

GREEN BAY — Ted Thompson traded up in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL draft with a trade with the New England Patriots. With that pick they selected UCLA Quarterback Brett Hundley.

Hundley was selected second-team All-Pac 12 in 2014 and was a Davey O’Brien Award semifinalist. Many had Hundley going earlier in the draft, but he fell to the Packers at 147th overall.

He led the Bruins with 10 rushing touchdowns, while setting UCLA records with 75 career touchdowns and 11,677 total yards.

GREEN BAY — The Packers finally addressed their inside linebacker need in the fourth round with the selection of Michigan linebacker Jake Ryan.

Ryan, who stands at 6’2 and is 240 lbs was a first team All-Big Ten team last season. He tore his ACL in the winter before his junior year but was back on the field in only six months.

Ryan had 112 tackles, 2 sacks, 1 interception and 2 forced fumbles in 2014 for the Wolverines.

APPLETON – The group was small, but about 15 people from the Fox Valley hope their message was heard.

A “Walk for Unity” was held Saturday morning in Appleton. The group walked more than a mile. The event started at the corner of North Richmond Street and West College Avenue and ended at Lawrence University.

“Our generation is the future. We are going to be the next cops, we are going to be the next lawyers, doctors, and teachers and I’m hoping that the people who come out today show that as a united community, that is victorious,” said Lydia Tyler.

Tyler organized the walk after seeing the recent protests in Baltimore. On Friday, six officers were charged Freddie Gray’s death. He died last month while in police custody.

Thousands of people are expected to rally for justice and peace in Baltimore today.

Tyler says the Appleton walk was meant to support everyone in the Fox Valley, including local police departments.

“I asked police sites on Facebook if they could come out and walk with us. All lives matter,” Tyler said.

Among those who joined in on the walk was Brandon Sanders. Originally from Prescott, Arkansas, Sanders moved to Appleton a few years ago.

“I come from a racially segregated town, being in the South, and I just love the Fox Valley and the melting pot that it is, and how everyone has opportunities to thrive and be successful here,” said Sanders.

As the group continued through downtown Appleton, they held up signs and spread the message of unity to people who walked by and drivers stopped at red lights.

“If you can be a part of your community and do everything as one, then you’ll have more opportunities in a whole community,” Tyler said.

FOX 11’s Gabrielle Mays will have the full story tonight on FOX 11 News at Nine.

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) – A Fond du Lac hospice nurse said he thought he was going to die on Mount Everest when a powerful earthquake in Nepal set off an avalanche.

Andy Land told The Associated Press Saturday his team was on a glacier surrounded by crevasses when they heard roaring April 25, but they only experienced very strong winds.

The 52-year-old said the team abandoned the effort to get to the top and he’s now in Phortse, Nepal. He’s trying to return home but because of the destruction it could take another week.

He says he doesn’t think he will return because it’s such a large undertaking.

He’s been calling his effort “Climbing for Hospice” and hopes to still use it to educate people about the need for better end-of-life care.

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) – The Menominee Park Zoo in Oshkosh has a new family of wolves.

The Oshkosh Northwestern Media reports the four gray wolves came to the zoo from the Wildlife Science Center near Minneapolis in October after the last of the zoo’s original three wolves was euthanized in June 2014 due to health reasons.

The 12-year-old wolves are named Sienna, Rebel, Echo and Thunder and are litter mates.

They were born to a wolf that originally lived in Yellowstone National Park, where wolves are typically larger than the ones in Wisconsin.

They have settled into their new habitat in time for the zoo’s opening Saturday.

BALTIMORE (AP) – Thousands expected to hit the streets this weekend had planned to protest the death of a man in police custody but instead looked to turn the march into a “victory rally” after Baltimore’s top prosecutor filed criminal charges against the six officers involved in the man’s arrest.

State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby charged the officers with felonies ranging from assault to murder, and encourage continued peaceful demonstrations.

Freddie Gray’s death from spinal injuries a week after his April 12 arrest provoked riots on the streets of West Baltimore on Monday and quickly became a rallying cry against police brutality and social inequality in the city. Mosby’s announcement on Friday triggered celebrations on those same streets.

Shortly after noon Saturday at Gilmor Homes, a group of demonstrators gathered to begin marching, both black and white. There were grown-ups, kids and a dog.

“Are you ready to march for justice?” Kwame Rose, 20, of Baltimore, said. The crowded chanted, “Yes.”

“Are you all ready to march for peace?” Rose asked. “Yeah,” the group answered.

Near a CVS store that was looted and burned earlier in the week, groups of policemen stood on corners and a police helicopter flew overhead. Some officers twirled wooden batons idly. Someone had used chalk to draw a peace sign and write “Freddie Gray” on the brick face of the store. Hearts and dollar signs had been drawn on the store’s boarded up windows.

Chrystal Miller, 47, and Linda Moore, 63, planned to join Saturday’s march. Both said they had obligations during the week and this was the first time they’d been able to participate. Moore brought a sign that said “The Dream Still Lives,” a reference to the Rev. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” civil rights speech.

Black Lawyers for Justice is expecting at least 10,000 people to show up downtown.

Miller, who was pushing her 1-year-old son in a stroller, said she hoped the march would be peaceful. And Moore said she believed it would be because of the charges.

Still, Miller said the story isn’t over.

“It’s going to be a long road,” she said, adding that the officers still need to go to court and she wasn’t sure they’d wind up with jail time as she hoped. “Nothing is going to happen overnight.”

Mosby said that after reviewing the results of a police investigation turned over to her just one day before, she had concluded Gray’s arrest was illegal and unjustified. She said his neck was broken because he was handcuffed, shackled and placed head-first into a police van, where his pleas for medical attention were repeatedly ignored as he bounced around inside a small metal compartment in the vehicle.

The officers missed five opportunities to help the injured and falsely imprisoned detainee before he arrived at the police station no longer breathing, Mosby added.

The police had no reason to stop or chase after Gray, Mosby said. They falsely accused him of having an illegal switchblade when it was a legal pocketknife, and failed to strap him down with a seat belt, a direct violation of department policy, she said.

Gray’s stepfather, Robert Shipley, said the family was happy the officers were charged, and he reiterated a plea to keep all public demonstrations peaceful.

“We are satisfied with today’s charges; they are an important step in getting justice for Freddie,” Shipley said. “But if you are not coming in peace, please don’t come at all.”

The family lawyer, Billy Murphy, said the charges are “a first step but not the last,” adding that Baltimore now has an opportunity to set an example for cities across the nation grappling with police brutality.

“The overwhelming number of people who have protested over the days didn’t know Freddie personally, but the people of Philadelphia, New York, Cincinnati, and in numerous cities and towns are expressing their outrage that there are too many Freddie Grays,” Murphy said. “If Freddie Gray is not to die in vain, we must seize this opportunity to reform police departments throughout this country, so there are no more days and times like this.”

A lawyer hired by the police union insisted the officers did nothing wrong. Michael Davey said Mosby has committed “an egregious rush to judgment.”

But for others who saw Gray’s arrest and death as a reflection of the city’s broad social and economic problems, the announcement of charges prompted celebrations in the streets.

At City Hall, Andrea Otom, 41, sobbed with something like joy.

“You have to be able to expect that at some time, the pendulum will swing in your favor, and in the black community we’ve seen it over and over and over where it doesn’t,” Otom said. “I’m so happy to see a day where the pendulum has finally begun to swing.”

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Associated Press writer Amanda Lee Myers contributed to this report.

LONDON (AP) – A princess is born.

Prince William’s wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, “was safely delivered of a daughter” Saturday morning, less than three hours after checking into St. Mary’s Hospital in London, royal officials said.

The newborn’s name wasn’t immediately announced. When her brother, Prince George, was born in 2013, royal officials waited two days before announcing his name.

Britons have for weeks been betting that it would be a princess and all the top bets for the baby’s name have been for girls. Alice and Charlotte are the clear favorites, followed by Elizabeth, Victoria and Diana – all names with strong connections to royal tradition.

Kensington Palace said the baby – the couple’s second child – was born at 8:34 a.m. London time (0734 GMT, 2:34 a.m. EDT) and weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces (3.7 kilograms).

The princess is fourth in line to the throne and the fifth great-grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II. A royal statement said senior royals “are delighted with the news.” The queen marked the occasion by wearing a pink ensemble while carrying out an official engagement in Richmond, North Yorkshire, 250 miles (400 kilometers) north of London.

Die-hard royal fans who had been camping for days outside the hospital danced with delight, chanting “Princess! Princess!” and “Hip, hip, hooray!” A town crier in elaborate costume – with no connection to the royal family – shouted out the news at the hospital’s door, clanging his bell to welcome the new royal.

“May our princess be long-lived, happy and glorious,” said Tony Appleton, reading from a scroll in a booming voice.

Later, hundreds of tourists and well-wishers crowded outside the gates of Buckingham Palace, cheering and screaming as officials placed a traditional birth announcement on a golden easel.

Kate, 33, and her infant were doing well, and Prince William was present for the birth, officials said. Kate, who wed William in April 2011, gave birth to Prince George at the same hospital in July 2013. William came out of the hospital in the afternoon, waving to reporters and saying he was “very happy” before driving off to see about George.

Anticipation for the occasion had been building for weeks. Kate had told a well-wisher earlier this year that the child was due in the second two weeks of April, kicking off what the tabloid press called “the Great Kate Wait.” The world’s media had set up their positions outside the hospital for days, but were still caught slightly off guard by the speed with which officials announced the birth.

“I’m top of the world,” said royal camper Terry Hutt, 80, decked out in patriotic Union Jack gear. He said he did not expect the birth to happen as soon as it did, but said: “Babies come when they’re ready.”

“If Diana was here, she’d be very, very proud,” he added, referring to the late Princess Diana, William’s mother.

Britain’s political leaders – facing a hard-fought general election in just five days – rushed to congratulate the couple on the new addition.

Prince Charles had signaled – twice – that he was hoping for a granddaughter, which led some to speculate that he had inside information, even though the royal couple said throughout Kate’s pregnancy that they did not know the child’s gender.

The monarchy has not welcomed a princess born this high up the line of succession since Princess Anne, the queen’s second child, was born in 1950. Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the daughters of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, were fifth and sixth in line at the time of their birth.

At 21 months, George is third in line to the throne, after his grandfather Prince Charles and William. The newborn becomes the fourth in line, bumping Uncle Harry to fifth place.

Thanks to a recent change in law, the new princess will hold her place in the line of succession that for centuries had put boys ahead of their sisters. The change means that no younger brother will be able to overtake the newborn princess in the order of preference to inherit the throne.

Nonetheless, the princess should not have to worry about one day becoming queen. Royal succession rules dictate that the throne always passes to the eldest child, and younger siblings only get to step up to the job in rare circumstances – in the cases of an illness, death, or abdication.

The public is likely to get its first view of the newborn when Kate and William leave the hospital, but no time has been set for that yet.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that creates statewide regulations on ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft.

The measure would prohibit any local ordinances governing ride-hailing companies. Instead, the companies would have to purchase a $5,000 state license, conduct driver background checks and maintain liability insurance. Drivers would be prohibited from discriminating against passengers based on their race, religion, sex or disability.

The bill passed both the Assembly and Senate on bipartisan votes last month.

Supporters say the regulations will help Uber and Lyft expand around the state and create more transportation options.

Eleven Dane County Democratic lawmakers had requested Walker veto the bill arguing it doesn’t do enough to regulate the services and should allow more local oversight.

GREEN BAY – A special group joined FOX 11’s Emily Deem on Good Day Wisconsin.

Some students with Angels of Hope were on the show to talk about a special anniversary and to create some kid friendly recipes.

Chocolate Chip Dip
Ingredients:
•             1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
•             1/2 cup butter, softened
•             3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
•             2 tablespoons brown sugar
•             1 teaspoon vanilla extract
•             1 cup (6 ounces) miniature semisweet chocolate chips
•             Graham cracker sticks or Nilla Wafers

Directions
•             In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy. Add the sugars and vanilla; beat until smooth. Stir in chocolate chips. Serve with graham cracker sticks.
Yield: 2 cups.
•             1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
•             1/2 cup butter, softened
•             3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
•             2 tablespoons brown sugar
•             1 teaspoon vanilla extract
•             1 cup (6 ounces) miniature semisweet chocolate chips
•             Graham crackers or Nilla wafers

The second segment recipe:

English Muffin Pizzas
Ingredients:
· 6 English Muffins – split
· ¾ cup Pizza Sauce
· 3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
· 24 Pepperoni Slices
· ½ cup black olives
· ½ cup mushrooms
· Or any other desired pizza topping

Directions:
· Preheat oven to 375 degrees
· Place the English muffin halves cut side up onto baking sheet. Spoon some of the pizza sauce  onto each one. Top with desired pizza toppings
· Bake for 10 minutes in a preheated oven, or until the cheese is melted and browned on the edges

EAT & ENJOY!

TOWN OF NEW DENMARK – A Maribel man was flown to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries after a one-vehicle crash.

Brown County authorities say the 20-year-old was ejected from the vehicle when it rolled over on Rosecrans Road south of Hagar Road just before 11 pm Friday.

According to investigators, the man was not wearing a seat belt and alcohol was a factor.

TOWN OF GLENMORE – Officials say a Denmark man was severely injured when his motorcycle hit two deer.

It happened around 10:30 pm Friday on CTH X, just west of CTH NN.

Authorities say the 25-year-old was taken to a local hospital and his injuries are considered life-threatening.

HOWARD – Brown County Sheriff’s officials say a 20-year-old man was injured in a stabbing.

Police responded to the call just after 8 pm Friday for a disturbance between the man and his girlfriend.

The 20-year-old woman allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the back. His injuries appear to be non-life threatening.

Police say the woman is in the Brown County Jail, facing domestic violence and attempted homicide charges.

HOWARD – Crews are on the scene of what Brown County officials are calling a machine shed fire.

They got the call just after 3:30 Saturday morning.

Pauleen Le is on the scene to get more information.

GRAND CHUTE (AP) – The idea was simple: Bring a touch of dignity to a tucked away, barren cemetery that lacked reminders of its dead.

But it’s been a far more exhaustive project than any of its organizers could have imagined.

The Outagamie County Cemetery is the final resting place for 133 people who died while confined at its former asylum for the chronic insane. Supporters of the project figured it would take about six months to complete.

That was two years ago.

“We were all pretty naive,” Mary Robertson, a lead organizer, told Post-Crescent Media.

Still, leaders say today that their enthusiasm hasn’t waned, and they’re drawing ever nearer to bringing their good intentions to reality.

They anticipate work will be done at the cemetery this summer. They will add a granite memorial stone listing the names of those who interred at the site. They’re planning for a trail on its edge that ends at a pergola and a granite bench.

Organizers can’t begin the project, however, until the Wisconsin Historical Society approves the land survey and site plan. They’re confident that will happen.

The county’s cemetery oversight committee and a larger group of supporters – Friends of Outagamie County Cemetery – hope to have a dedication ceremony in early fall.

In one sense, they can already claim success. Their goal was to shine light on the forgotten, and they’ve achieved it.

For many years, the site was littered and grown-over. The cemetery is now maintained, but it has become more of a curiosity than a place of reverence. That’s changing.

The metal, road-type sign identifying the grounds carried a misspelling of the word “cemetery.” The county’s highway department recently fixed that error, even though the sign will be removed in a matter of months.

“I was really taken back by that,” said committee member Laurie Shinkan.

The asylum was opened in 1889, along with a farm that provided work to those who were confined there. The farm closed long ago and the asylum building was razed. Brewster Village, the county’s nursing home, stands near the site of the former asylum. The cemetery is situated just north, is accessible by a trail and lies within Fox Valley Technical College’s truck training course.

Those who launched the effort never expected the formation of a county committee to oversee the project. They didn’t expect the need for state-level approvals or getting high-tech assistance from an anthropologist.

Gwen Zimmerman was among those who ignited the project. She’s found meaning in the many steps and requirements they’ve worked through along the way. The same level of detail is required of them as it would be for those planning changes at any of the larger, adorned and manicured cemeteries.

“It’s something these individuals are deserving of,” Zimmerman said.

There was a strong effort to change the name from “Outagamie County Insane Asylum Cemetery” to one that honors the people who are buried there. Organizers learned by reviewing historical documents that “insane asylum” wasn’t part of name, as the sign suggests. They’re satisfied with “Outagamie County Cemetery.”

Shinkan said the Wisconsin Historical Society has supported the project and offered clear expectations.

Steve Seim of Beaver Dam has been researching the state’s institutional cemeteries for several years. He praised Outagamie County’s efforts while noting that many similar county cemeteries are in rough shape. The Outagamie County project speaks to important shifts in our society, Seim said.

“(The asylum) was a way to deal with them; to get them out of the way and often they were forgotten in their own lifetimes,” Seim said. “When we don’t maintain the cemeteries, they’re forgotten to history, as well.”

Zimmerman said it’s likely many of those who were confined led a better life in the asylum in earlier eras than they would have elsewhere. It’s important to recognize their lives today, since records show how little recognition they received from the community back then, he said.

The birth dates of many of those buried in the cemetery are unknown. There’s uncertainty to the spelling of surnames among some of those interred.

“That wouldn’t happen today … no matter who it was,” Zimmerman said.

The institution’s long-ago terminology illustrates how society regarded those with mental illness or disabilities. Patients were referred to as “inmates.” The process of release was referred to as “parole.”

Last year, Peter Peregrine, a Lawrence University anthropology professor, and his students conducted a geomagnetic survey of the grounds. They identified 133 burial plots, and there was great relief that the number of plots matched up with the records.

The presence of the county committee ensures that upkeep will continue after the memorial is placed.

“We have so many people who have come forward to help with this, and they’re just as excited today as we were two years ago,” Robertson said.

LONDON (AP) – Prince William’s wife Kate entered a London hospital Saturday to give birth to their second child, igniting a national wave of anticipation and a last-minute betting spree on the name of the new prince or princess.

The baby will be fourth in line to the throne and the fifth great-grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II.

In a brief statement, palace officials said the Duchess of Cambridge was admitted at 6 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) Saturday to the exclusive Lindo wing at St. Mary’s Hospital, arriving by car with William.

The couple’s first child, Prince George, was born July 22, 2013 at the same hospital. William, who is on leave from his job as an air ambulance pilot, was at his wife’s side in the hospital, as he was for George’s birth.

Royal officials are not expected to provide any more information until the birth, which will be announced on Twitter and Instagram. That announcement will say what gender the baby is, as well as its weight and the time of birth.

Prime Minister David Cameron sent his best wishes in a Twitter message. “The whole country will wish her well,” he said.

The pending birth and uncertainty about the gender has been a boon for Britain’s bookmakers, who say they have received thousands of bets on the newborn’s gender and possible name. Betting was part suspended after Saturday’s announcement, though wagers were still being placed on a name and other characteristics.

“Punters have gone royal baby betting mad and now that Kate has gone into labor, there is a huge scramble to predict the royal baby’s gender, name, weight, and hair color amongst other things,” Coral spokeswoman Nicola McGeady said. “Tens of thousands of bets are being placed across the nation, sparking one of the biggest gambles we have ever seen on a non-sporting event.”

Anticipation has been building for days. Kate had told a well-wisher earlier this year that the child was due in the second two weeks of April, kicking off what the tabloid press called the Great Kate Wait.

Die-hard royal fans have camped outside the hospital, draped in Union Jack flags and waving festive banners. They have waited patiently on the sidewalk, hoping for a glimpse of the family. The Duke and Duchess sent them luxury pastries and a birthday cake at one point this week – a mark of gratitude for the fans’ wish to share their joy.

“I told you it’d be a weekend baby,” royal camper Kathy Martin said outside the Lindo Wing.

The world’s media scrambled into place outside the hospital, waiting for news. The couple has been anxious to avoid the media circus that accompanied George’s birth, and camera crews began setting up only after the announcement Saturday morning.

Kate will be residing in style. Each en-suite in the private maternity unit has Wifi, satellite television, a radio, a safe, a bedside phone and a refrigerator. The wing also offers a “comprehensive wine list should you wish to enjoy a glass of champagne and toast your baby’s arrival.”

Kate gets a 10 percent loyalty discount, as she had her first child there as well.

A suite now costs 6,570 pounds ($10,034) for a one-night stay with normal delivery -or 5,913 pound with Kate’s discount. Doctors’ fees are extra.

The couple has said that they don’t know whether the baby will be a boy or a girl. A girl will hold her place in the line of succession, and would be the first to benefit from a change in the law which had always put men ahead of their sisters.

Betting ran heavily in favor of the child being a girl, despite the lack of any solid evidence to back that up.

All the top bets for the baby’s name are for girls. Alice and Charlotte are the clear favorites, followed by Elizabeth, Victoria and Diana – all names with strong connections to royal tradition.

Prince Charles has signaled – twice – that he’s hoping for a granddaughter, which led some to speculate that Charles had some inside information.

But many probably just hope Britain will see a new princess: The monarchy has not welcomed a princess born this high up the line of succession for many years.

Princess Anne, Charles’ sister, was born third in line in 1950. Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the daughters of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, were fifth and sixth in line at the time of their birth.

SHAWANO LAKE – The wait is over – Saturday marks the start of the Wisconsin fishing season.

FOX 11’s Pauleen Le spent the morning out on Shawano Lake checking in with some excited anglers on their hopes for the season.

The Green Bay Packers added offense in the third round of the NFL Draft on Friday night by picking Stanford wide receiver Ty Montgomery.

Montgomery caught 61 passes for 604 yards and scored three TDs for the Cardinal in 2014. Montgomery missed the last two games of his senior year due to a shoulder injury, which he had offseason surgery on.

Montgomery (6 foot, 221 pounds) could be what the Packers want in the kick return game as he led college football last season in kick return average.