Month: January 2020

A Fond du Lac city councilmember is on record in support of an alternate Lakeside Park master plan.    In fact,  councilmember Donna Richards,  went so far as to take the unusual step for a councilmember of speaking at this week’s advisory park board in favor of the plan presented by a group of local business leaders.   Richards says she is particularily interested in the proposed history museum and restaurant […]

A Fond du Lac jury has reached a split verdict in the case of a  Fond du Lac man charged in a shooting incident last year.   The jury found 26 year old  Mohamed Elmhdati not guilty of attempted first degree intentional homicide and  armed robbery.  Elmhdati was found guilty of six counts including first degree reckless injury and aggravated battery, punishable by up to more than 50 years in prison.  Police say Elmhdati […]

A 21-year-old Ixonia woman has been placed on probation for  helping a convicted killer  hide a Beaver Dam man’s body at the Dodge County property where she lived.   Dodge County Circuit judge Brian Pfitzinger placed Dakota Schlesner on two years probation with 10 months in jail.   Schlesner was earlier  found guilty of aiding a felon.  Twenty one year old Nigel Schultz of  Fond du Lac was earlier convicted of  first-degree homicide  in the shooting death […]

Republican congressman Glenn Grothman is siding with the president’s legal team that a quid pro quo regarding the president’s dealings with Ukraine is not an impeachable offense.    Grothman was responding to new revelations by former  national security advisor John Bolton that he personally heard  president Trump say he wanted military aid withheld from Ukraine until it investigated the Bidens-the abuse of power charge in the first article of impeachment. "I […]

The executive director of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Homelessness says he is pleased the governor has signed into law a bipartisan bill that increases funding for homeless shelters by $1 million over the next two years.   Coalition director Joe Volk says the bill will help homeless people throughout the state.  "I was there (bill signing) I was happy to be there and see the governor sign a bill that provides more funding for […]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Delta Air Lines plans to launch a new uniform program for its flight attendants and some airport customer service agents after complaints that uniforms that employees are required to wear are causing serious medical problems. The Atlanta-based airline announced the new program Wednesday. The director of Delta's New Uniform Program calls it “a big decision,” but says “we side with our people, and we are making a […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly is accusing one of his two liberal-leaning challengers of insulting and slandering him. The conservative-leaning Kelly faces Jill Karofsky and Ed Fallone in a Feb. 18 primary. The top two vote-getters will advance to the April 7 general election. All three candidates appeared at a Milwaukee Bar Association forum Thursday. Karofsky renewed her accusations that Kelly is corrupt because he […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin lawmakers are introducing sweeping legislation designed to curb pollution from PFAS chemcials. Sen. Dave Hansen, a Green Bay Democrat, and Rep. John Nygren, a Marinette Republican, unveiled the the bills Thursday. The package would allocate money to conduct research on how to destroy PFAS, sample wildlife for PFAS contamination, test municipal water supplies for contamination and direct the Department of Natural Resources to enact limitations […]

KOHLER, Wis. (AP) — Kohler Co. has agreed to pay a $20 million civil penalty to resolve allegations that emissions from its small spark-ignition engines violated the Clean Air Act and California law. The Wisconsin-based company reached the agreement Thursday with the Department of Justice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the California Air Resources Board. Regulators say the alleged violations involved Kohler's manufacture and sale of millions of small, spark-ignition […]