Month: March 2020

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has fined a Wisconsin falconer and ordered him to forfeit his pickup truck for poaching a raptor.  According to prosecutors and court documents, James Kitzman of Oak Creek took a female northern goshawk from its nest in Vilas County in 2017 and traded it for a Finnish goshawk from Michigan falconer Edward Taylor. U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker on Monday fined Kitzman $15,000, […]

MILWAUKEE  — Molson Coors employees are returning work at the Milwaukee brewery where a worker fatally shot five co-workers and then himself. A company email says employees coming back to work Monday will find heightened security measures, including additional guards, both armed and unarmed. Counseling services will be available for employees. The company acknowledged in the email that not everyone will feel ready to return to their jobs. Meanwhile,  a […]

A Malone man was seriously injured in an ATV crash in Fond du Lac County.    It happened shortly before 5pm Sunday at the intersection of Highway 151 and County Highway HHH.  Through investigation it was determined that the operator and lone occupant, a 39 year old Malone area man, was northbound on US 151. As he approached CTH HHH he lost control of the ATV resulting in him getting thrown from the machine. […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill that would impose tougher sentences on repeat drunken drivers. The Republican-authored measure increases the mandatory minimum sentence for fifth and sixth offenses from six months to 18 months. Judges could hand down shorter sentences if they find such a move would be in the public interest. The state Department of Corrections has estimated the bill would create $13.6 million in […]

The state senate majority leader says Republicans have no plans to compromise on an income tax cut plan vetoed last week by Democratic governor Tony Evers.   In vetoeing the bill Evers indicated his open to considering an income tax cut or an additional state debt payment, if the plan invests in schools and provides broad property tax relief.  "I don't look at it as a compromise because it's a huge investment the legislature […]

The latest Marquette University Law School Poll shows a dramatic surge for two Democratic presidential candidates that mirrors what has been happening nationally.   Bernie Sanders is up by double digits in the latest poll,  the first time since last August he has been on top.  "It is and its the first time in six months that Joe Biden hasn't been at the top,"  poll director Charles Franklin told WFDL news.  Franklin says […]