A Fond du Lac lawmaker is applauding the governor’s request that the legislature repeal the Common Core standards. Last week Governor Scott Walker issued a one sentence statement calling on the legislature to repeal the standards. Fond du lac Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt says it should be the legislature’s first priority. Thiesfeldt says he believes momentum against Common Core appears to be growing. "The country as a whole seems […]
A report compiled by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism says a Waupun Correctional officer is accused of abusing more than two dozen inmates in solitary confinement. The article's author, Bill Lueders, focused on 40 allegations of staff on inmate abuse since 2011 in Waupun’s segregation unit with officer Joseph Beahm named in 28 of the incidents. A dozen inmate lawsuits since 2011 accuse Beahm of abuse. Six have […]
Dodge County sheriff’s investigators may be closer to making an arrest in connection with the theft of grave markers from three Dodge County cemeteries. Sheriff Pat Ninmann says detectives have made contact with one of two people described as persons of interest. Ninmann says the thefts at St. Michaels cemetery, a Beaver Dam cemetery and another cemetery in the town of Burnett appear related. Ninmann says investigators came […]
Fond du Lac fire officials say they do not believe a fire that damaged a Fond du Lac motel last week was not intentionally set. Fire prevention specialist Troy Haase says it appears the fire at the Comfort Inn Friday started when someone discarded a cigarette or hot ashes into a garbage can-ash tray outside the hotel. "The origin we have pinpointed down to that exit area where that garbage […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Officials say a fire at the Milwaukee Brewers' ballpark was contained mainly to a restaurant. The fire started about 2 a.m. Monday at Friday's Front Row Sports Grill at Miller Park Milwaukee Deputy Fire Chief Aaron Lipski says the fire apparently started in the restaurant's kitchen and spread up through some duct work. No one was injured. Brewers executive Rick Schlesinger says most of the damage at […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke says an ad in which Gov. Scott Walker criticizes Trek Bicycle Corp. shows he doesn't understand how the global marketplace works. Burke, a former Trek executive, continued her criticism Monday of the ad Walker's campaign launched last week. The ad says she got rich from a company that sent jobs overseas, where women and children are paid as little as $2 an […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gay couples challenging Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriages are objecting to the state's request that the full 7th Circuit Court of Appeals hear arguments in the case. American Civil Liberties Union attorneys representing eight same-sex couples challenging the ban filed an objection Monday to the state's request that the entire appeals court hear the arguments. The ACLU says that would delay the appeal and put a […]
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Racine County sheriff's officials have identified the people involved in a fatal skydiving accident. Authorities say 44-year-old Fredrick Platt Jr., of Racine, died Sunday afternoon when his parachute became entangled with another skydiver's canopy. The two missed their landing spot at Sylvania Airport in the Town of York. Officials say Platt died at the scene. The second skydiver, 27-year-old Neil Kulman, sustained minor injuries after landing […]
A 13 year old Fond du Lac boy escaped serious injury when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle. The incident happened shortly before 3:30pm Monday at the intersection of Johnson and Doty Streets. The child received some minor scrapes and was treated on the scene.