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ASHWAUBENON – Spring is here!

Our friends from Regatta 220 in Ashwaubenon joined FOX 11’s Phil, Emily and Pauleen on Good Day Wisconsin to create some tasty drinks and other dishes.

Click here to learn more about Regatta 220.

Ingredients:

18 frozen dinner rolls
1 box (3.4 ounces) cook & serve butterscotch pudding mix (not instant)
1 stick butter, melted
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Directions:

Arrange frozen rolls (do not thaw) in a bundt pan that’s been buttered well or sprayed with cooking spray. Sprinkle rolls with dry pudding mix and nuts if using. In a bowl mix together butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon and pour the mixture over the rolls. Cover tightly with foil that’s been sprayed with cooking spray. Let rise on the kitchen counter overnight. In the morning, pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Uncover and bake for 25 to 35 minutes or until golden. Remove from oven and let rest about 5 minutes. Carefully invert onto a serving platter. Serve warm. No cutting, just pull apart and enjoy!

ASHWAUBENON – Swanstone Gardens has some great upcoming classes to get people ready for spring and summer.

Several instructors joins FOX 11’s Pauleen Le in the studio for a preview on some of the classes including, Pysanky Ukranian Easter Egg decorating, cooking with wild edible mushrooms and more.

For more information on Swanstone Gardens and a complete list on the upcoming classes, click here.

OSHKOSH – With the warmer weather approaching, you might be getting ready to break out your bicycle.

Riders in Oshkosh did just that at the third annual Fox Valley Bike Swap.

The fundraising event was put on by the Oshkosh Cycling Club.

Bikes of all types were on display and some decided to sell or swap their ride.

Vendors also sold bike accessories.

Club member say if you’re looking for a new exercise routine, riding is a great way to get in shape.

“I think more and more people are getting into health and fitness and alternative ways to get around,” said Melissa Putzer with the Oshkosh Cycling Club.

All the money raised from the swap goes towards cycling advocacy and bicycle safety awareness.

KIEL – A Lakeshore community is preparing to pay its final respects to a fallen state trooper.

Trevor Casper was killed during a shootout with a bank robbery and murder suspect in Fond du Lac on Tuesday.

A public memorial will be held in Casper’s hometown of Kiel Sunday.

The city of Kiel is quiet. Flags still fly at half-staff and blue lights still shine bright even during the day.

Outside Kiel High School, Mike Schultz and his family pulled wagons filled with blue ribbons.

“We’re just taking part in what everybody else in the community’s doing and putting up some ribbons up all over the town,” said Mike Schultz of Kiel.

For those who knew 21-year-old trooper, dealing with his death hasn’t been easy.

“It’s tragic. In a small community, everybody knows everybody and it’s just a terrible event,” said Frank Rick of Kiel.

A visitation and public memorial service will be held on Sunday at Kiel High School. Local officials say thousands of people from across the country are expected to attend.

Schultz says he and his family will be there.

“I just think it shows respect for who he is a person and what he did as a profession, ” Schultz said.

Kiel businesses are also showing support for Casper and his family with signs honoring the fallen trooper.

The downtown is where a procession will take place Monday leading up to Casper’s private funeral.

The procession begins at 9:45 Monday morning. People are invited to stand along the route.

The procession starts at the funeral home on 6th Street. The route continues south to Fremont Street. From there, vehicles will head east to First Street and then to East Water Street, east to Highway 67, and then to Mueller Road.

The procession will end at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery where Casper’s private funeral and burial will be held. Only Casper’s family and members of the Wisconsin State Patrol only.

During this time of mourning, many are holding on to the good memories they shared with Casper.

“A lot of my kids, they played soccer and other sports, and he was on their team. He was just a little fellow and some of the boys, they were bigger and they’d throw him over their shoulders like a sack of potatoes and they just all had fun with it,” Rick said.

Gone, but never forgotten, that’s what many people in Kiel are saying.

As for Schultz and his family, they hope even the simple task of tying a blue ribbon of support around a pole shows the how much they care.

Tom Christ, of Wausaukee, was also killed Tuesday by the same man who killed Casper.

Christ’s family says his funeral will be held at noon on Tuesday.

Services begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Presbyterian Church in Wausaukee.

SUAMICO – Maple syrup season is underway, as the weather slowly warms up.

The Barkhausen Waterfowl Preserve in Suamico hosted a program Saturday to teach people the history behind the sweet treat.

Visitors could see the step by step process at different stations, and learn everything from tapping the tree, to boiling down the sticky sap inside.

“They are learning the whole process from the biology of the tree to the final product of maple syrup,” said volunteer Doug Hartman.

The state’s Maple Syrup Producers Association says more than 265 thousand gallons of syrup were made in 2013.

The Wisconsin men’s basketball team used a 55-point second half to defeat Arizona 85-78 in their NCAA Tournament Elite 8 showdown.

Trailing 33-30 at halftime, the Badgers mounted a huge final 20 minute effort to return to the Final Four for the second straight year.

The thrilling contest was a rematch of last year’s Elite 8 game, a 64-63 overtime win for Bo Ryan’s team.

Frank Kaminsky led the way with 29 points, with teammate and Sheboygan native Sam Dekker adding 27.

Wisconsin will meet either Kentucky or Notre Dame in next weekend’s national semifinal game.

COLBURN, Wis. (AP) – Authorities say a 21-year-old father and his 6-month-old child were killed when a pickup truck read-ended their horse-drawn buggy in western Wisconsin.

The Chippewa County sheriff’s office says it happened on Highway 64 in the town of Colburn shortly before 7 a.m. Saturday.

All three members of the family were thrown from the buggy. The father and child died at the scene. The 21-year-old mother suffered extensive injuries and was flown to a regional hospital. Their names were not immediately released.

A statement from the sheriff’s office says alcohol is not believed to have been a factor, but the investigation is continuing. It says the pickup was driven by a 66-year-old man from the Cornell area.

The highway was closed for about three hours.

The Wisconsin men’s basketball team trails Arizona, 33-30 at halftime of this year’s NCAA Tournament Elite 8 matchup.

In a rematch of last year’s contest, a 64-63 overtime win by the Badgers, both teams traded leads in the first 20 minutes.

Frank Kaminsky paces Wisconsin with 13 points, Sam Dekker has chipped in with 7.

Foul trouble could also be a key tipping point with two Badgers and four Wildcats compiling two fouls apiece.

UNDATED (AP) – The first two teams in the Final Four will be determined this evening, with two of the regional finals set in the NCAA Tournament.

Notre Dame will be the next team to take a stab at bringing down top-seed and unbeaten Kentucky when they meet tonight for the Midwest Regional title in Cleveland.  And the Fighting Irish have the DNA to topple the Wildcats. Notre Dame teams have beaten the AP’s top-ranked teams eight times, most notably ending UCLA’s 88-game winning streak in 1974.

But the 37-0 Wildcats are not those teams.  They offered a stark reminder of that with a punishing 39-point demolition of West Virginia on Thursday night.

The 32-5 Fighting Irish are trying to get to the Final four for the first time since 1978.

Top-seed Wisconsin will try to grab the West Regional title when the Badgers take on second-seed Arizona in a showdown of powerhouses in Los Angeles.  It’s a rematch of last year’s regional final won by Wisconsin in overtime.

The 34-3 Wildcats take a 14-game winning streak into tonight’s play.  Wisconsin is 34-3.

GREEN BAY – Traffic came to a standstill on Highway 41 as seven vehicles were involved in an accident Saturday morning.

Green Bay Police say it happened just after 11:45 a.m.

The accident occurred on Highway 41 heading northbound near the Mason Street exit.

Police said one lane was closed for a short time while debris was being picked up.

Injuries have not been reported at this time.

We will continue to update this story as we get more information.

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) – Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program grew frantic on Saturday amid signs of discord, with the French and German foreign ministers joining U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in talks with Tehran’s top diplomat ahead of an end-of-March deadline for a preliminary deal.

With just four days to go until that target, negotiators in the Swiss town of Lausanne were meeting multiple times in various formats to produce what they hope will be an outline of an agreement that can become the basis for a comprehensive deal to be reached by the end of June.

Iranian negotiator Majid Takht-e Ravanchi denied a news report that the sides were close to agreement on a text, and other officials spoke of remaining obstacles, including Iranian resistance to limits on research and development and demands for more speedy and broad relief from international sanctions.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters as he arrived that the talks have been “long and difficult. We’ve advanced on certain issues, not yet enough on others.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, meanwhile, suggested the blame for any impasses lies with the U.S. and its partners.

“In negotiations, both sides must show flexibility,” he wrote on Twitter. “We have and are ready to make a good deal for all. We await our counterparts’ readiness.”

Iranian nuclear agency chief Ali Akbar Salehi described one or two issues as becoming “twisted.” He told Iran’s ISNA news agency that the sides were working to resolve the difficulties.

Kerry met early in the day with Zarif, before extended sessions with Fabius and Germany’s Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The foreign ministers of Russia, China and Britain also were expected in Lausanne on Sunday.

“We now are standing at the threshold of a political resolution and a collective political impulse,” said Russian deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. “I think these chances (of an agreement) significantly exceed 50 percent.”

But diplomats at the talks said their presence does not necessarily mean a deal is almost done.

Steinmeier avoided predictions of an outcome, saying only that a nuclear deal could help ease Mideast tensions.

“The endgame of the long negotiations has begun,” he said.

Iran says its nuclear ambitions are purely peaceful; other nations fear it is seeking to develop weapons.

Progress has been made on the main issue: The future of Iran’s uranium enrichment program. It can produce material for energy, science and medicine but also for the fissile core of a nuclear weapon.

The sides tentatively have agreed that Iran would run no more than 6,000 centrifuges at its main enrichment site for at least 10 years, with slowly easing restrictions over the next five years on that program and others Tehran could use to make a bomb.

The fate of a fortified underground bunker previously used for uranium enrichment also appears closer to resolution.

Officials have told The Associated Press that the U.S. may allow Iran to run hundreds of centrifuges at the Fordo bunker in exchange for limits on centrifuge work and research and development at other sites. The Iranians would not be allowed to do work that could lead to an atomic bomb and the site would be subject to international inspections.

Instead of uranium, any centrifuges permitted at Fordo would be fed elements used in medicine, industry or science, the officials said.

Even if the centrifuges were converted to enrich uranium, there would not be enough of them to produce the amount needed to make a weapon within a year – the minimum time frame that Washington and its negotiating partners demand.

A nearly finished nuclear reactor would be re-engineered to produce much less plutonium than originally envisaged.

Still problematic is Iran’s research and development program.

Tehran would like fewer constraints on developing advanced centrifuges than the U.S. is willing to grant.

Also in dispute is the fate of economic penalties against Iran.

In addition, questions persist about how Iran’s compliance with an agreement would be monitored.

Fabius said France was not yet satisfied on that point.

BOSTON (AP) – Boston’s police commissioner says a decorated officer remains in critical condition in a medically induced coma after being shot in the face Friday night when gang unit officers stopped a car.

Commissioner William Evans said Saturday morning that 34-year-old Officer John Moynihan was struck just below his right eye and the bullet remains lodged below his right ear. He described Moynihan as “a fighter” and he hopes he’s “going to pull through.”

Evans says video shows Moynihan approaching the driver’s door, and the suspect, 41-year-old Angelo West of Boston, shooting him at point blank range.

Evans says West fired at the other officers as he tried to run away and was killed when they returned fire. A woman driving down the street was shot in the arm, but is recovering.

The names of the suspect and wounded woman weren’t immediately released.

Moynihan, 34, is on the police Youth Violence Task Force and is a highly decorated military veteran, Evans said.

He is a former Army Ranger who served in Iraq and was honored at the White House in May with the National Association of Police Organizations TOP COPS award. Moynihan received the award for being one of the first responders in Watertown following the April 2013 gunbattle with the Boston Marathon bombers.

Moynihan had helped transit police Officer Richard Donohue, who was shot in the leg and nearly bled to death when police tried to apprehend Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Lieutenant Michael McCarthy said.

“The officer here is in tough shape, but we’re all pulling for him, and hopefully he’ll pull through,” Evans said. “His family’s with him, the clergy has been here and … let’s pray for him.”

Evans said the police officers, part of a gang unit, pulled the vehicle over for a routine stop. Two other people who were in the car were being interviewed, and it was too early to say whether criminal charges would be filed against them, he said.

Such shootings are rare in Boston, but firearms are a major concern in the city, the commissioner said.

“We’ve got way too many guns out there, way too many young kids running around with the guns,” he said, “and unfortunately this is what happens.”

Mayor Marty Walsh said his thoughts and prayers were with the injured officer, his family and the police department.

“These acts of violence have no place in our neighborhoods,” Walsh said. “Our community is stronger than ever, and tonight we are thankful for all of those who put their lives on the line every day to protect our city.”

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) – Authorities say they safely detonated a suspicious package that was found outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kenosha.

Police Sgt. Joe Riesselmann says Planned Parenthood staff reported the package around 11:15 a.m. Friday. He says the way it was wrapped and the lack of identification or markings raised their concerns.

Nearby streets were closed off for nearly three hours and the bomb squad was called in. After x-rays were inconclusive, a robot was used to fire a charge into the package.

The Kenosha News reports the charge blew the box open, sending what appeared to be pages of sheets of paper flying.

Police said Friday night that the package was later identified as a legitimate delivery.

The clinic has been the scene of anti-abortion protests in the past.

JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) – Interstate 90 near Janesville is open once again after a chemical spill shut down the freeway for much of the day Friday.

The Rock County Sheriff’s Office says cleanup efforts were completed late Friday night and the highway was reopened. Residents evacuated from a nearby neighborhood as a precaution were allowed to return home late Friday afternoon.

The Janesville Fire Department reports the spill happened early Friday after a semi carrying swimming pool-type chemicals crashed into another truck that had caught fire a few hours earlier and was on the shoulder of the road. Four barrels of chemicals were damaged.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) – Guinea has deployed security forces to the country’s southwest in response to reports that Sierra Leoneans are crossing the border to flee an Ebola lockdown intended to stamp out the deadly disease, an official said Saturday.

The deployment, led by the head of the national gendarmerie, was sent late Friday night to the town of Forecariah, said gendarmerie spokesman Mamadou Alpha Barry, adding that the area is “secure.”

Residents reported tension in the region resulting from a large influx of Sierra Leoneans in the days leading up to the lockdown, which went into effect on Friday and ends Sunday.

“We revolted against a massive arrival of Sierra Leoneans along the border as the Sierra Leonean authorities announced the lockdown,” said Forecariah resident Mamadou Kolibe.

“Why would they leave their country if they didn’t have Ebola?” Kolibe added. “We are opposed to their arrival and that has caused a stir here.”

The southwest region of Guinea borders northern districts of Sierra Leone that are focus areas for the lockdown operation.

In Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital, officials reported that most people stayed in their homes on Friday and Saturday, with the exception of teams looking for possible cases and Muslims heading to mosques on Friday. The lockdown does not apply to people attending religious services.

Sierra Leone conducted a similar nationwide operation last September when transmission rates were much higher. Ebola has infected nearly 12,000 people in Sierra Leone, more than any other country, but the latest weekly total of 33 confirmed cases is the lowest since last June.

While the previous lockdown included a large public education component, this time around most people are well aware of the danger posed by Ebola, meaning teams can focus on identifying patients, said Samuel Turay, an evaluation officer with Sierra Leone’s National Ebola Response Center.

“I’m sure that after this we will have total control over the virus,” he said.

DENVER (AP) – Thanks to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, it’s becoming even clearer that immigration is the banana peel of 2016 Republican presidential politics.

Just ask Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

He stepped up as a Senate leader on immigration only to slip and fall in a tea party ruckus over the issue. In a moment of candor, Rubio remembered the months of trying to get back up as “a real trial for me.”

Others, too, have shifted on the matter.

Now it’s oops for Walker.

In 2013, Walker said it “makes sense” to offer a way to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally. Early this month, however, he said he no longer supports “amnesty.”

Complicating that switch, Walker recently discussed immigration with New Hampshire party leaders. One of them, state leader Jennifer Horn, says that Walker favored legal status, a position many conservatives equate with “amnesty.”

Worse for Walker, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that he actually said he favored a path to citizenship, though Horn denies Walker said that.

Even former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who has a strong voice – and a book – on immigration, has wiggled.

Rubio and Walker are not alone in embracing an immigration overhaul at some point. But doing so raises the specter of “amnesty” in the minds of those who want people unlawfully in the country to be given no relief from the threat of deportation.

“All the candidates have mixed statements – they have statements that seem to support amnesty and they all have ones that seem to oppose it,” said Roy Beck, executive director of Numbers USA, which seeks to reduce immigration. “They’re torn between the big-money people who gain from high immigration and the voters who oppose it.”

Luis Alvarado, a California-based GOP strategist, said most Republican officials privately acknowledge that the country has to legalize the status of people who are here unlawfully while also bolstering border security. “They believe that no one in their conscious mind can deport 11 million people from this country,” Alvarado said. “But, politically, they have to play word games to be elected in the primary.”

Among the potential 2016 hopefuls:

-Bush has said he will not back away from his support for giving legal status to many in the country illegally. But his 2013 book outlining that stance marks a departure from an earlier position that envisaged eventual citizenship.

-Before he shied away from the issue, Rubio co-wrote a bill with a path to citizenship that passed the Senate and failed in the House. He now says the bill does not have the support to become law and the first focus should be on border security, a standard GOP position. Rubio ultimately wants to create a process that leads to legal status and then citizenship.

-Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul voted against Rubio’s bill but says the millions of people in the country illegally cannot all be sent home.

-New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie once supported an overhaul; now he won’t say where he stands. His state, though, is backing other Republican-led states in a suit against President Barack Obama’s orders deferring deportation for some immigrants.

-Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is talking tougher on immigration than when he called his 2012 campaign rivals heartless if they opposed a law that lets some children of immigrants in the U.S. illegally pay in-state tuition at public colleges. Even so, he says the U.S. will not deport all people here illegally.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the only declared candidate so far, has kept a fairly consistent tough line on the issue.

Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, said “the ground has shifted” on the issue for two reasons. He cited the influx of Central American youth crossing the border illegally last summer overwhelmed federal officials, and said Obama’s unilateral acts to shield some immigrants from deportation made it politically impossible for a Republican to embrace a pathway to citizenship.

“You’ve got to cut these guys some slack,” Schlapp said of the presidential hopefuls and their wavering words.

But Frank Sharry of America’s Voice, which supports an overhaul, said some of Bush’s rivals are “going to be accused of flip-flopping and that’s going to become a character issue” playing into Bush’s hands.

The wide-open nature of the GOP race also brings to light a tension between what some Republican fundraisers want – an overhaul with a legal path – and what conservative primary voters wish for.

Spencer Zwick, finance chairman for 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, is one donor who has said he will only support candidates who favor such an overhaul. At this early stage, the competition for dollars has been more intense than the competition for votes.

“Once they get into the debates, this all changes,” Beck of Numbers USA predicted, meaning he expects the candidates to rally behind a harder line.

NEENAH – The best of the best in home construction, renovation and landscape are gathering in Neenah this weekend.

The Fox Valley Home & Landscape Expo opened its doors on Friday at the Tri County Ice Arena.

Seminars will also take place throughout the expo.

For more information on the Fox Valley Home & Landscape Expo, click here.

ASHWAUBENON – Grapevine Café joins FOX 11’s Pauleen Le in the studio as Saturday’s cooking guest.

The restaurant is having its own competition in the spirit of the NCAA basketball tournament where some of the most popular menu items are going head to head hoping to become the fan favorite.

The chef shared delicious  recipes for a crab and shrimp cake and salmon salad.

Crab & Shrimp Cakes

Ingredients:

1/2# Crab

1# Cooked Shrimp (chopped)

1/4 Cup Fine Diced Red Onion

1/4 Cup Fine Diced Red Bell Pepper

1/4 Cup Fine Diced Celery

Sauté Vegetables and Let Cool

Six Egg Yolks

1 Cup Panko Bread Crumbs

1/4 Cup Mayonnaise

1/3 Cup Shredded Parmesan Cheese

1 Lemon Squeezed

1 T. Capers

2 T. Fresh Parsley (chopped)

1 tsp. Old Bay Seasoning

1 tsp. Salt

1 tsp. Black Pepper

Directions:

Mix all the ingredients.

Form into cakes and refrigerate.

Sear on both sides and finish in the oven. (To an internal temperature of 155°)

Salmon Salad

Ingredients:

4 oz. Salmon

Mixed Greens

2 oz. Mandarin Oranges

2 oz. Blue Cheese Crumbles

2 oz. Pecans

2 oz.Craisins

1 oz. Julienned Red Onion

2 oz. Honey Mustard Dressing

Directions:

Sear salmon and cook to your liking.

Top the mixed greens with all other ingredients.

Drizzle with dressing.

FOND DU LAC – The Fond du Lac Fire Department is setting the record straight after a Facebook page appeared using the department’s name. However, the page’s administrator told FOX 11 he didn’t mean any harm.

The Fond du Lac Fire Department posts to social media often.

“People know if they wanna know what’s going on in our community to look to our Twitter feed and our Facebook page and if there’s something noteworthy out there we’re gonna have it on there for them,” explained Chief Peter O’Leary.

So when a Facebook Page popped up a few days ago called “City of Fond du Lac Fire & EMS,” with the department’s official logo, it was concerning.

O’Leary told us he was worried, because he didn’t want followers to think the information on the page was coming from the department.

“Very respectfully and we do it with a whole lot of care and caution,” said O’Leary explaining how the fire department uses social media.

Page administrator J.B. Graef lives in West Bend. We spoke with him by phone Friday.

“So were you trying to fool anybody into thinking you were the actual fire department?” asked reporter Alex Ronallo.

“No, no, there was no trickery whatsoever, there was actually a disclaimer on the page that said we are not affiliated with the fire department,” Graef responded.

However, O’Leary told FOX 11 the real problem arose when Graef put out a Facebook update about Tuesday’s shooting death of Trooper Trevor Casper.

“Some of that information that he put out Tuesday night would never even be on the charts for us. We would never put it out that way,” said O’Leary.

Graef told us he was only repeating information he heard elsewhere Tuesday. He said he follows scanner traffic as a hobby and is putting it out for other people to see. Graef apologized for his actions and made changes to his page.

“Removing the fire department logo and the picture of the apparatus at the station and we also renamed it,” he explained.

The page is now called Fond du Lac Fire & EMS Scanner.

So we wanted to find out, how do you know you’re following the right people on social media?

“Our government pages are all flagged as ‘municipal government,’ they have to be verified with a government email address,” explained City of Fond du Lac IT manager David Zittlow. You can also look for the little blue check mark on Twitter.

O’Leary told us, at the end of the day, any sensitive information from the department will come in the form of a press release first.

The actual fire department Facebook page is called “City of Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue” if you’d like to follow.