Month: December 2022

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative prosecutor is asking a judge to toss out Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul’s lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s 173-year-old ban on abortions, arguing that it lacks legal merit and that there is no weight to assertions that it is unenforceable because of its age. Sheboygan County District Attorney Joel Urmanski filed a motion late Wednesday to dismiss the case. His fellow defendants, Dane County District Attorney […]

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Mariners have acquired second baseman Kolten Wong from the Milwaukee Brewers in a trade for outfielder Jesse Winker and infielder Abraham Toro. Seattle also receives cash as part of the deal. Milwaukee has been shedding payroll this offseason after going 86-76 and missing the playoffs for the first time since 2017. The Brewers picked up the $10 million team option on Wong’s contract for 2023 […]

Hundreds of Fond du Lac residents lined Main Street in downtown Fond du Lac Saturday afternoon for the 2022 Fond du Lac Christmas Parade of Lights . The parade started at Rees and North Main Streets, traveling south to Veterans Park.   This year 's  theme was “HoliDazzle”   All floats entered were eligible to win prizes:  Best & Brightest (Top Prize)  2. Little Sparkler (Kids)  3. Fan Favorite  

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed increasing ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the nation’s fuel supplies over the next three years. Thursday's announcement was welcomed by renewable fuel and farm groups but condemned by environmentalists and oil industry groups. The proposal also includes incentives for the use of biogas from farms and landfills, and biomass such as wood, to generate electricity to charge […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers' administration is set to ask state environmental officials for permission to develop new limits on a group of chemicals known as PFAS in groundwater. Department of Natural Resources officials are scheduled to ask the agency's policy board on Dec. 14 for permission to begin drafting numeric standards for four types of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in groundwater. The board adopted limits on PFAS […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Eight years into a U.S. program to control damage from feral pigs, the invasive animals are still a multibillion-dollar plague on farmers, wildlife and the environment. They've been wiped out in 11 of the 41 states where they were reported in 2014 or 2015. And there are fewer in parts of the other 30. But in spite of more than $100 million in federal money, officials […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Police and federal law enforcement officers are among 20 people from multiple states including Wisconsin saying they were wounded by a popular type of Sig Sauer pistol. It's the latest lawsuit alleging that the gun is susceptible to going off without the trigger being pulled. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in New Hampshire federal court. It says there have been more than 100 incidents of the […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers have promoted Marti Wronski to chief operating officer. She is the franchise’s highest-ranking female executive since Wendy Selig-Prieb was the president and chairman in the early 2000s. Brewers officials say Wronski is currently the only woman to hold the COO title for a major-league franchise. There are two women working as president of business operations for MLB teams. Caroline O’Connor has that role with […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that caused minor damage to a home in Fond du Lac County.  Shortly after 3:30am Friday firefighters were called to a residence on Schoenberg Road in the town of Calumet for a report the house was filling with smoke.     Sheriff's deputies were first on the scene and extinguished the fire on the exterior of the house with fire extinguishers from their squad cars.  The cause of the fire […]