Authorities have released the name of the victim killed in a traffic accident in Fond du lac County Thursday. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says 73 year old Richard Zoelle of Brownsville was pronounced dead at the scene at County Highways K and F in the town of Eden. Investigators say Zoelle was stopped at a stop sign and then for an unknown reason pulled into traffic and […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Wisconsin from implementing a law requiring voters to present photo IDs. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday declared the law constitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union followed that up the next day with an emergency request to the Supreme Court asking it to block the ruling ahead of the November election. On Thursday night the nation's highest […]
A sentencing hearing will be held later this month for a Mayville High School teen convicted of causing a crash that sent eight people to the hospital. Eighteen year old Sidney Lehman, pleaded guilty in Washington County Circuit Court to four misdemeanor counts of reckless driving causing bodily harm and resisting and obstructing a police officer. A felony count of second degree recklessly endangering safety was dismissed and read into […]
The Department of Public Works would like to inform the motoring public of the closure of Sheboygan Street between Main Street and Portland Avenue. The north traffic lane and parking on Sheboygan Street will be closed to westbound traffic between South Main Street and South Portland Street. The closure started Tuesday, October 07, 2014 and continues through Friday, October 17th during the daytime hours only. The south side of the […]
The state Department of Health Services Influenza Surveillance coordinator tells WFDL news the number of confirmed EV D68 cases in Wisconsin has doubled in the last week. Tom Haupt says all of the patients with the virus have been hospitalized but are expected to fully recover. "Right now we have ten confirmed cases that were confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control," Haupt said. "There's been six of them in […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker and Mary Burke will appear together on the same stage Friday night for the first of two debates. The Eau Claire debate being broadcast live statewide gives voters in this hotly contested governor's race a chance to size up the candidates with less than a month to go before the election. Burke is trying to knock off the better known Walker, who is […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Spending on television ads in the race for Wisconsin governor is nearly equal between Gov. Scott Walker and Democrat Mary Burke. The latest tallies from the Center for Public Integrity released Thursday show estimated spending on ads that have run through Monday. The group's totals show Walker and his backers have spent about $5.6 million on ads, while Burke and her supporters have spent about $5.4 […]
A new report says Wisconsinites are still paying more for their health insurance than Minnesotans. Citizen Action Wisconsin spokesperson Kevin Kane says the health care advocacy group’s study shows large cost disparities between the two states. Kane says the report shows that Minnesota is doing everything the affordable care act gives them the power to do. "For decades Wisconsin and Minnesota have been almost identical. Ever since the start of […]
The Constitution party candidate for state treasurer says he wants to restore and preserve the office. Ripon resident Andrew Zuelke says he believes lawmakers stripped the duties of the office on purpose to make the office look irrelevant. "So they go to voters and say this is a do nothing office. That's a despicable thing to do," Zuelke told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program. "This is a constitutionally […]