Month: July 2019

Thunderstorms are in the forecast every day this week, but a National Weather Service meteorologist says it won’t be a complete wash-out for the Independence Day Holiday.   Meteorologist, Aiden Kuroski, says several systems are expected to move into Wisconsin throughout the week.  "There's potential for a system to push through each and every day,"  Kuroski told WFDL news.  "Its very uncertain and that's sort of why we see this potential […]

The executive director of the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin says she is not surprised, but is disappointed at last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that federal courts have no place in policing political district boundaries.  The ruling means a challenge to Republican-drawn legislative boundaries in Wisconsin is likely over.  League of Women Voters of Wisconsin director Erin Grunze says she fears the ruling will only make partisan gerrymandering […]

There is another Powerball winner in Fond du Lac.  One player matched four  of  five numbers in Saturday’s game  to win a $50,000 prize.   The winning ticket, 13, 17,  24, 59 and 62 was purchased  at The Citgo Express on North Main Street.  

The Assembly Democratic leader says he’s talking with the governor’s office about what action to take with the state budget, passed by the Republican controlled legislature.  Republican legislators passed the budget last week and sent it to the governor on Friday.  When asked if he thinks the governor may veto the entire budget, or make partial vetoes,  Democratic state representative Gordon Hintz of Oshkosh says everything is on the table at this point.  […]

Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac is asking  the governor to quickly sign the state budget.  The budget passed by the Republican controlled legislature was sent to the governor’s desk on Friday.  "Wisconsin Republicans have produced a very reasonable document that is going to be good for the next two years for the state of Wisconsin,"  Thiesfeldt said.  "It rejects much of what Tony Evers had proposedin his budget, […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers is facing pressure to sign the state budget as passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature.  Republicans are calling for him to sign it into law and on Monday, a group representing long-term care facilities also urged Evers to sign it.  LeadingAge Wisconsin on Monday cited nearly $234 million more for long-term care in the two-year budget as a reason for Evers to sign it into law. […]

RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Bond is set at $5 million for a man charged with fatally shooting a Racine police officer who was trying to stop a robbery.  Twenty-six-year-old Dalquavis Ward of Milwaukee made his initial court appearance Monday via video conference from Racine County Jail.  Ward is charged with three felonies in the death last month of Officer John Hetland — first-degree intentional homicide, armed robbery and possessing a gun as […]

MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — An 82-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a couple at a Wisconsin park 43 years ago.  Raymand Vannieuwenhoven entered the pleas Monday in Marinette County Circuit Court. He's accused of killing 25-year-old David Schuldes and 24-year-old Ellen Matheys in 1976 at McClintock Park in Silver Cliff, about 200 miles north of Milwaukee.   For decades, the widower and father of […]

Starting this week Amtrak is offering bus service between Green Bay and Milwaukee along the I-41 corridor with a stop in Fond du Lac.   The Amtrak bus will stop at the Radisson Hotel in Fond  du Lac.  The Amtrak bus will make two daily round trips with stops in Appleton, Oshkosh and Fond du  Lac.   In Milwaukee, the bus will make two stops — the Intermodal Station, which is the city's  main […]