Month: January 2016

The Village of North Fond du Lac is considering an ordinance that would ban out of county sex offenders from being located in the village.   The board will consider the sex offender ordinance at their February first meeting.  Village Administrator Chuck Hornung says the board plans to hear from the state sex offender registration program director and an area lawmaker at the meeting.  Hornung says the village board decided to move forward after the state […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin-Extension officials are mulling consolidating services across counties to absorb a budget hit.  The two-year state budget Gov. Scott Walker signed in July cut $250 million from the UW System. Extension's share of that cut is $7 million over the biennium.  Extension officials have drawn up a plan that calls for saving $1.2 million annually by combing services into four-county quadrants and sharing agricultural, […]

A Waupun prison inmate has been convicted of expelling bodily substances on correctional officers.  A Dodge County jury has found 27 year old Cody Cromwell guilty of five counts of assault by prisoners as a habitual criminal.  Cromwell claimed that he suffered from a mental illness, but a psychiatrist testified during the trial that he believed Cromwell was feigning his symptoms.  The jury returned the guilty verdict and finding of no mental illness in less than 20 […]

Area library directors say they support a bill that would allow libraries to use police and collection agencies to reclaim overdue materials and collect fines.   The bill would carve out an exception to privacy laws that protect the identity of borrowers so libraries could give collectors and police borrowers’ names, contact information and amount owed.  Fond du Lac Library director Jon Mark Bolthouse says the proposed bill would provide libraries with clarification on what steps can be […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Governor Scott Walker's presidential campaign finished last year with a little more than a million dollars in debt. Finance reports Walker filed Friday with the Federal Election Commission covering the fourth quarter of 2015 show his campaign owned $1.2 million as of December 31st.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Campaign fundraising numbers show U.S. Senate hopeful Russ Feingold is outpacing Republican Senator Ron Johnson by about $1 million. Feingold's campaign issued a release Friday saying he raised $2.65 million in the last quarter of the year. The campaign didn't note how much he spent in the final quarter. Feingold lost his Senate seat in 2010 to Johnson and is looking to unseat him in November.

A snowmobile operator escaped injury when his snowmobile entered open water on Beaver Dam Lake.   The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says three snowmobilers were traveling across the lake Thursday night when they came upon open water.  Two of the machines were able to navigate across the water and make it safety to shore.  The third snowmobile became submerged in about five feet of water, ten feet from shore.  He was able to wade to shore.  […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says wolves continue to thin a herd of elk in west-central Wisconsin.  The agency says the herd in Jackson County was cut to 17 animals after wolves killed three elk in January.  DNR wildlife director Tom Hauge says that as of this past week, the herd had seven bulls, seven cows and three calves.  In August, 23 elk were released […]

SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say they don't expect to file charges against the parents of three children who died in an eastern Wisconsin house fire. Police say they've confirmed that the parents were at a Bible study class when the fire broke out at the family's home in Sheboygan Falls on Tuesday night. Public Safety Director Steve Riffel says that while the cause fire has not been determined, it […]