Month: August 2015

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Some football fans heading into Lambeau Field Saturday for the Green Bay Packers first preseason home game this year will encounter newly installed metal detectors.  Ticketholders using the Shopko gate will be the first to use the walk-through metal detectors. The NFL has mandated their use at all stadium gates by 2016. The Packers will install the detectors at all remaining gates next season.  They're […]

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Religious waiver forms that will be distributed this week to every county in Wisconsin are expected to resolve a dispute over building codes between Eau Claire County and its Amish community.  State Representative Kathy Bernier introduced the amendment after Eau Claire County pursued actions against several Amish families for noncompliance with code.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker is calling for U.S. forces in Iraq to engage in direct combat to defeat what he calls "radical Islamic terrorists." But the Wisconsin governor continues to avoid calling for additional ground troops beyond the 3,200 military security personnel, trainers and advisers who are now deployed. Walker spoke at The Citadel, the private military academy in Charleston, South Carolina.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — If there was ever a week for the Republican presidential candidates to talk tough on China, this was it: Spurred by the stock market's wild ride, they lashed out at the world's most populous nation. Wisconsin's Scott Walker demanded President Barack Obama cancel an upcoming state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorney General Brad Schimel is arguing that a federal court ruling blocking new Environmental Protection Agency water pollution regulations should apply nationwide.  The EPA says the rules clarify which waterways fall under federal protection. Landowners say the rule will be burdensome because it will require more permits. Lawsuits to block the regulations are pending across the country; Wisconsin has a federal lawsuit in Georgia.  A federal […]

Ripon's annual tribute to all things cookies will take place once again.   The Cookie Daze committee will continue on with the festival in 2016,  which will mark the 21st consecutive year of the event.   Skepticism surrounding the event’s future began after ConAgra Foods announced in May that it would be closing the West Plant facility in Ripon.   But Ripon Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jason Mansmith says […]

Atlanta, Georgia:  Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue (FDLFR) is now an internationally accredited agency.  Several senior FDLFR staff members along with City Manager Joe Moore went before the Commission on Fire Accreditation International Thursday morning in Atlanta  to seek agency accreditation.  The commission voted unanimously to grant accredited status to FDLFR.  "I am so proud of our entire organization and extremely happy for the community of Fond du Lac," said Fire/Rescue […]

Nobody was injured in a tractor fire in Fond du Lac County.  At approximately 3:46am Friday, the Fond du Lac County Communications Center received a report of a shop building on fire at Clover Hill Dairy, W4306 Cloverland Dr. in the Town of Ashford.   Upon arrival it was determined that a tractor and piece equipment was on fire and spreading.  The tractor was parked next to the shop building and […]

Following four months of construction Highway 26 in Fond du Lac County will reopen Friday afternoon. The nearly $11 million project involved a 16-mile stretch of Highway 26 from Cattaraugus Drive to County Highway FF.  In addition to replacing pavement, a curve in the road near Willow Creek Road was realigned and reconstructed.   Fond du lac County Sherif’s Captain Rick Olig says he hopes the project will help reduce […]