Nov. 9, 2020 9:30p; Updated Carver item on 11_10
(AP)---A 19-year-old man has been charged with supplying the gun that police say was used in a pair of fatal shootings during the Jacob Blake demonstrations in Kenosha last August. Dominick Black was charged Monday with two felony counts of supplying a dangerous weapon to a minor. According to the criminal complaint, Black asked 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse of Antioch to join him in guarding businesses in Kenosha during the protest and gave him an assault rifle. Rittenhouse used the rifle to shoot two protesters and wound a third. Rittenhouse faces multiple charges, including intentional homicide and illegally possessing a firearm. The complaint says Black drove Rittenhouse back to Illinois after the shootings.
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(WGTD)---The days of in-person instruction in Kenosha Unified and elsewhere in the area may be numbered. Kenosha County Health Officer Jen Freiheit is recommending that all schools in Kenosha County switch to remote learning beginning the week of Thanksgiving and remain in that mode through the holiday break. Her recommendation applies to sports and extracurricular activities, and was made in consultation with county schools and colleges. The recommendation comes as virus cases are surging with no end in sight. There's been no immediate comment from Kenosha Unified, which gave its students at the beginning of the school year the option of either in-person or remote learning. At last report enrollment was split down the middle. As Freiheit was issuing her recommendation, Gateway Technical College announced that all of Gateway's campuses in the three-county area will go mostly virtual from Nov. 30th through the end of the fall semester on Dec. 12th. There will be exceptions for some lab work. Also Monday, the Burlington School District announced that it'll go all-virtual beginning Wednesday. The district says it's recorded 24 positive cases within the last eight days, putting 117 students and staff in quarantine.
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(WGTD)---A trial that was scheduled to begin Tuesday morning for a 79-year-old Pleasant Prairie man who's charged with a hate crime has been delayed. Robert Carver allegedly used racial slurs when arguing with a woman over the placement of a shopping cart last summer in the parking lot of Menard's in Kenosha. The disagreement escalated, and Carver got into his car and allegedly accelerated toward the woman. The altercation was witnessed by a shopper and a Menard's employee. Carver was charged with disorderly conduct and endangering safety with hate crime enhancers. The trial delay occurred after another witness surfaced, and the defense said it needed more time to investigate. A jury that had been picked Monday to hear the case was dismissed.
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(WGTD)---After 30 years on the bench, Kenosha Court Judge Mary Wagner is stepping down. Wagner says she'll retire when her current term expires next summer. The election to fill her position will be held next spring. The number two attorney in the Kenosha County District Attorney's office has announced she'll run. Deputy District Attorney Angelina Gabriele, a Bradford High School grad, has been a prosecutor for some 25 years. Before becoming a judge, Wagner served as Kenosha County Clerk and as a state legislator.
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(WGTD)---A Mundelein chemical company is moving to LakeView Corporate Park in Pleasant Prairie. According to a news release from the village, RealChem plans to move into an existing building and make hand sanitizer, disinfectant, antiseptic and other products for janitorial, sanitation institutions and consumer markets. Over the next few months, the company plans to hire between 75 and 100 employees working two shifts.
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