Month: September 2014

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin father has started serving a six-month jail sentence for praying over his dying daughter in 2008 instead of seeking medical help for her.  Fifty-two-year-old Dale Neumann of Weston was convicted along with his wife, Leilani, of second-degree reckless homicide in the death of their 11-year-old daughter Madeline.  A supervisor says that Dale Neumann arrived at jail Monday.  The parents were sentenced in 2009 to six […]

Fond du lac police are investigating a shooting incident but the victim isn’t cooperating.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein says nobody was injured.  Klein says a man entered the Speedway gas station on West Johnson Street early Thursday morning and told the clerk someone had tried to shoot him.  "Officers arrived and spoke with the male subject.  He was not injured,"  Klein said.  "He stated he had been shot at […]

A Black River Falls man has been arrested in Fond du Lac for his 6th owi.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein says the 46 year old man drove to Fond du Lac to pick up his wife who was being released from the Fond du Lac County Jail.  "They decided to stop at one of our local establishments to celebrate and as they left, apparently,  they were observed driving erratically," […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is investigating who is sending text messages demanding nude photos from a 19 year old St. Cloud woman.  According to a Sheriff’s report the woman told investigators she started receiving  the messages about three months ago from someone who texted he was her boyfriend.  The texts stopped when the woman threatened to call police…but started again a short time later.  The woman says […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An estimated 38,000 adults who had been receiving Medicaid coverage through Wisconsin's BadgerCare Plus program before being kicked off earlier this year will have more time to sign up under the federal health insurance exchange.  The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday that it was establishing a special enrollment period for those people running through Nov. 2.  The Wisconsin Department of Health Services […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's attorney general says he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a federal appellate ruling striking down the state's gay marriage ban.  Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's spokeswoman, Dana Brueck, said in an email to The Associated Press that Van Hollen has always believed the case will be decided in the that court.  U.S. District Judge Barbra Crabb struck down the ban as […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gay couples and their supporters gathered in Milwaukee to celebrate an appeals court decision declaring Wisconsin's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional. Couples who filed the lawsuit seeking to overturn the ban say they realize it could be a while before the matter is settled since Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has said he will appeal today's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — One of the couples who sued to overturn Wisconsin's ban on same-sex marriage says they're very happy but still feeling cautious after an appeals court upheld an earlier decision allowing couples to marry.  Roy Badger, of Milwaukee, says he has hope that he and his partner, Garth Wangemann, will be "able to live in Wisconsin with full equality, that we won't be considered second-class citizens."  But Badger […]

More than two dozen prostitution related charges have been filed in Dodge County Circuit Court against 13 individuals.  The District Attorneys Office says Debbie and Daniel Walters, South Spring Street Beaver Dam, were charged today in Dodge County Circuit Court with Keeping a Place of Prostitution and Allowing Use as Place of Prostitution.  In  addition, Debbie Walters and eleven men were also charged with a total of  29 counts relating […]