The Dodge County sheriff says a union vote of no-confidence is politically motivated after she announced last week that she was mounting a write in campaign for the office. The Dodge County sheriff’s employee’s union says a no confidence vote for sheriff Pat Ninmann signals a call for new leadership. The union says Ninmann’s management style is crude and biased with uneven and unfair administration of discipline. Ninmann says certain […]
PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — The principal of a Portage elementary school says it was the universal sign for choking that let him know a fifth-grader was in serious trouble. John Muir Elementary School Principal Jason Meyer saw 11-year-old Trent Weier place his hands on his throat when he began choking on a mini-corn dog at school recently. Trent says when he couldn't breathe he stood up in the lunch room. […]
VIRGINA, Minn. (AP) — The gray wolf population has increased slightly in the Western Great Lakes District, which includes Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. That comes even as two of the three states have recently begun allowing wolf hunts. A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report shows the wolf population throughout the three states has grown from 3,678 to 3,719 in the past year. The founder of the International Wolf Center […]
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — In the race for the only open House seat in Wisconsin this year, both 6th Congressional District candidates agree that the federal government needs to work on reducing the national debt. Democrat Mark Harris and Republican Glenn Grothman also agree that the government should stop running budget deficits. But the candidates have different views on how that should happen, as well as the handling of spending […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin gubernatorial hopeful Mary Burke is voting early. Burke, a Madison Democrat looking to unseat Republican Gov. Scott Walker, voted Tuesday morning at Madison's city hall. Election Day is Nov. 4, but state law requires municipal clerks to allow early in-person voting on weekdays from the third Monday preceding an election to the Friday before it. Burke and Walker are locked in a tight race. Walker […]
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials say Asian carp DNA has been found in the Fox River in downtown Green Bay. The state Department of Natural Resources says a single positive sample for silver carp was identified from 200 samples taken this summer in the Fox, a tributary of Lake Michigan. The discovery by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was in the heart of the city, and […]
U.S. Representative Tom Petri (R-WI) received the Friend of Farm Bureau Award yesterday morning at the Kevin Krentz farm in the Town of Aurora in Waushara County. The annual award is given to Members of Congress nominated by their home state farm bureaus and approved by the American Farm Bureau Federation board of directors. “I’m honored to receive this award,” Petri said at Krentz farm on October 15. “American farming […]
FOND DU LAC, Wisconsin, October 21, 2014 - Local auto dealership Holiday Automotive announced today that its Holiday MAZDA sales and service operation has moved into the adjacent building and land that most recently served as the home of Bergstrom Kia, on North Rolling Meadows Drive in Fond du Lac. The new Mazda facility is now located next door to Holiday Ford, and across from Walmart. Ned Kelly and Holiday veteran Nick Faymoville will be […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Thousands of emails prosecutors collected during the first secret investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's former aides and associates when he was county executive have been released. Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele's office on Tuesday made public the nearly 16,000 emails and attachments that prosecutors seized from county and personal computers. The investigation ended in 2013 with six of Walker's aides and associates convicted on charges ranging […]