Month: February 2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The company looking to open an iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin says it is closing its office in Hurley effective on Sunday, casting doubt on the future of the project that sparked fierce debate and opposition from environmentalists and tribal members near the site.  Bill Williams, president of mining company Gogebic Taconite, released a statement Friday announcing the sudden move.  He says the company will […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin is requesting that Gov. Scott Walker remove a requirement that all 26 campuses report allegations of sexual assaults to the state every year.  Walker included the UW request in his budget as part of his plan to decouple the university from most state laws and oversight.  UW System spokesman Alex Hummel said Friday that UW requested the change because information given to […]

A preliminary hearing has been rescheduled for a former assistant special education teacher at Horace Mann High School in North Fond du Lac teacher accused of sexually assaulting a special education student.  Fond du lac judge Robert Wirtz  postponed the hearing until next Friday after 45 year old Dominic Carmona appeared in court yesterday without an attorney.  Carmona is charged with seven counts of sexual assault of a student by […]

Two Oshkosh men  accused of stealing scrap metal from several locations in Fond du Lac County have been bound over for trial.  Scott Busby and Brady Malzhan both waived their preliminary hearings Friday on 16 counts of burglary and theft.  The pair face similar charges in Winnebago County.

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — An attorney for one of two Wisconsin girls accused of repeatedly stabbing a classmate and leaving her for dead has argued the charges against her should be dismissed because she believed a fictional horror character would kill her family if they didn't attack their friend, and that belief amounted to coercion.  In a Waukesha County Circuit Court filing Thursday, Joseph Smith Jr. asked the judge to […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The co-chairmen of the state Legislature's Joint Finance Committee are pressing the Milwaukee Bucks owners to be specific about how much a new arena would cost.  Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Rep. John Nygren met separately with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in Madison this week and agreed that in order for the project to move forward legislators and elected officials need to know exactly what the […]

KOHLER, Wis. (AP) — A new study pegs the economic impact of proposed Kohler Co. golf course along Lake Michigan at more than $20 million annually.  The company has asked the Town of Wilson in Sheboygan County for a conditional use permit to build a championship 18-hole course on about 250 acres of forestland.  The study by Kohler says the golf course will create 227 full-time jobs, aside from temporary […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers say Brett Favre's Hall of Fame induction ceremony will still be held inside the Lambeau Field Atrium. But, the team will open the stadium bowl for fans that want to watch the ceremony live on the video screens. The induction and number retirement ceremony scheduled for July 18 inside the atrium is sold out. The limited atrium seating of about 1,600 […]

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Michigan is joining the federal government in appealing a decision that restores legal protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region.  Federal Judge Beryl Howell ruled in December that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service erred by dropping the region's wolf population from the list of endangered and threatened species in 2012.  Howell said Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin didn't provide adequate protection and […]