MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker has approved new rules establishing a free process for verifying birth information for people looking for state identification cards to vote but lack birth certificates. Walker approved the rules Friday, the same day state attorneys tried to convince the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago to reinstate a state law requiring voters show photo identification at the polls. The state Supreme Court […]
Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson has been nominated by President Barack Obama to serve as a representative to the United Nations General Assembly. The 69th session of the Assembly begins Tuesday. If confirmed, Johnson would continue to serve as senator. Johnson has been highly critical of the president’s foreign policy, stating Thursday that Obama’s plan to defeat the Islamic State terrorist group was “weak.”
A Fond du Lac teenager has entered a not guilty plea to a charge of making a bomb scare at Fleet Farm. Seventeen year old Christopher Porter, entered the plea at an arraignment hearing Friday in Fond du lac County Circuit Court. Police say Porter admitted to leaving the bomb threat note in a bathroom at Fleet Farm on July 3rd. He was employed by Fleet Farm at the […]
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Authorities have charged a Sheboygan man who they say used a dog's shock collar on his 7-year-old daughter. Twenty eight year-old Zachary Kacmar was charged Thursday with felony physical abuse of a child. Police arrested him Wednesday after his wife called authorities. She tells police he put the collar around their daughter's neck and shocked her on Aug. 30. She says she wasn't present at the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources is urging bow hunters to report their wildlife observations online. The archery and crossbow deer seasons open on Saturday. The DNR is asking hunters to record all of their hunting activity and wildlife observations in a survey available on the agency's website. DNR officials say the information provides insights into the abundance of many wildlife species and the level hunting […]
The 2014 Fond du Lac Area United Way fund drive is officially underway. United Way director Tina Potter says this year’s pacesetters, Brenner Tank and Fives-Giddings and Lewis ,have helped kick-start the campaign toward its $745,000 goal. Potter says going into the campaign the pacesetters have been able to raise nearly $151,000 or 20 percent of the goal. Two organizations served by United Way, Fond du Lac Adult Literacy Services […]
Fond du Lac police say it appears five young men decided to smash car windows just because "they thought it would be fun." Police arrested the men, ranging in age from 19 to 26, and at least two of them face felony criminal damage to property charges for smashing the windows on more than 60 vehicles parked on city streets. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says there is no […]
A Michigan man has been arrested following a high speed chase in Waupun. Police chief Dale Heeringa says an officer on patrol clocked a car speeding around 60 miles an hour on West Main Street…a 25 mile an hour zone. Heeringa says the chase continued out of Waupun and northbound on Highway 49 toward Brandon. The vehicle eventually went into a ditch and the driver was taken into custody […]
The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has identified a suspect in the murder of a town of Fox Lake man. Sheriff Pat Ninmann says authorities are looking for 30 year old Kriscilla McHenry of Milwaukee in connection with the death of 43 year old Michael Soeller. Soeller was discovered August 24th by his landlord in an apartment at the intersection of Highways 33 and 73 . Ninmann says a person now […]