Month: July 2022

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren says the conference will be bold and aggressive as college sports goes through a period of sweeping change. He left the door open for more expansion after the league added Southern California and UCLA for the 2024 season. Warren says the future could involve more expansion. He says the Big Ten will be strategic and look for schools that add value to […]

TOWN OF VINLAND, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a baby was killed when a semi veered off an interstate and crashed into a house in Winnebago County. Authorities say it happened about 6 p.m. Monday when the semi left Interstate 41 southbound, crashed through a fence line, crossed a nearby frontage road and smashed into the house in the town of Vinland, just north of Oshkosh. Officials say the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Senate Democratic Minority Leader Janet Bewley was involved in a fatal car crash Friday that left a 27-year-old mother from Pennsylvania and her 5-year-old daughter dead. Ashland Police Chief Bill Hagstrom said that Bewley was not injured in the crash and that police were not recommending charges be filed. The State Patrol was reconstructing the crash. Bewley is from Mason and represents northwestern Wisconsin. The […]

Mercury Marine has  announced a partnership with Alliant Energy to build a 5-megawatt, 32-acre solar array in eastern Fond du Lac County.  Merc says the project will advance the company’s sustainability initiatives and the region’s growing commitment to renewable energy.  The Ledgeview Solar Project, pending review and approval by the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin in the coming months, is the first to be developed under Alliant Energy’s Renewable Energy Partner program. The project will […]

Tom Poberezny, the retired president and chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association, is being mourned by the EAA and aviation communities after his death early Monday (July 25) at age 75, following a brief illness. Poberezny was EAA president from 1989 until 2010, and also served as chairman for two years until his retirement in 2011.   “It is not lost on us that Tom’s passing occurred on the opening day […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Four people in Wisconsin with disabilities have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to ensure that they’ll be able to get help turning in their ballots, even though the conservative-controlled state Supreme Court said no one other than the voter can return absentee ballots in person. The lawsuit was filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Madison. It comes in response both to the Wisconsin […]

Outagamie County Executive Tom Nelson says his decision to suspend his U.S. Senate campaign was pretty simple...he had run out of money.   "We're out of money and we tried catching fire and it didn't work out,"  Nelson told AM 1170s Between the Lines program.    Nelson says he has no regrets, and has decided to endorse Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes in next month's primary election.  "He's (Barnes) polling in the […]

Robert Thresher says he is running for the state Assembly because he does not like the direction the state and country is headed.  Thresher is one of four Republicans running in an August Primary election for the 52nd Assembly District seat representing the Fond du Lac area.  "I'm a technical guy.  I'm a self-made businessman,"  Thresher told WFDL news.  "When somebody steps on my neck and starts taking away my rights and […]

Don Hannemann says he is running for the state assembly to put Wisconsin truly first.  "I haven't heard anybody talk about being proud to be a Wisconsinite, as I am, Hannemann told WFDL news.  "In all of my active duty time, deployments, or wherever I've been with the Army,  I've always been proud to say I'm from Wisconsin."  Hanneman is one of four Republican candidates squaring off in the August […]