MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's gun deer license sales are lagging dramatically behind last year's pace. Department of Natural Resources data shows hunters had purchased 565,663 licenses as of Monday. That's down about 11,175 licenses from the same point last year. DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp told reporters during a conference call Tuesday previewing the gun deer season that deep snow in northern Wisconsin may be discouraging hunters in that region […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin is home to an estimated 85,000 people who immigrated illegally, three-fourths of them from Mexico. That's according to a new study released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. It focuses on illegal immigration from 2009 to 2012. The study says illegal immigration has been largely stable nationwide since 2009. It had declined during the recession after peaking in 2007 at 12.2 million people. The study estimates […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says significant changes will be made to the state Department of Transportation budget request that would increase taxes and fees by $751 million. But Walker refused in a Tuesday interview with The Associated Press to rule out anything in the proposal, including a gas tax increase that he has previously opposed. Walker says he is "not making absolutes on anything right now." But […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says he will be announcing changes to members of his cabinet next month. Walker told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Tuesday that he is meeting with each member of his cabinet as he prepares to begin his second term. Walker says some "tweaks" will be made to those who lead state agencies, including new secretaries and their assistants. He says the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he is seriously considering whether to get into the race for president in 2016. Walker told The Associated Press on Tuesday that if he's going to be a GOP contender, "I have to feel like it's a calling, particularly for the time and the effort and the impact it has on family and friends." Walker won re-election to a second […]
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A new survey shows adults in Brown County binge drink more than those in any other parts of the state, which was ranked highest in the nation for alcohol gorging and intensity of drinking. The 2014 Brown County Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey found 38 percent of Brown County adults said they have participated in binge drinking in the past 30 days. Comparable studies conducted […]
A Lomira High School student is in custody in connection with an armed robbery at a Brownsville gas station this week. Dodge County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Scott Smith says the 17 year old boy was taken into custody Tuesday morning. The boy is accused of robbing the BP gas station in Brownsville Monday. Smith says the teen told the clerk he had a gun and fled the store with a […]
A Fond du Lac man convicted of dealing heroin is going to prison. At a sentencing hearing Tuesday Fond du Lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced Timothy Gaudinier to five years in prison with 5 years extended supervision on a conviction of possession of heroin with intent to deliver. The judge ordered five years probation and imposed and stayed an 18 month prison sentence and two years extended supervision on a […]
A bond hearing is scheduled for Tuesday for a 31-year-old former Fond du Lac resident charged in the abduction, torture and stabbing of his wife’s ex-boss in Virginia. Andrew Schmuhl of Springfield, Va., is a Fond du Lac native and 2001 graduate of St. Mary’s Springs High School. Schmuhl and his wife, Alecia Schmuhl, both attorneys, have been charged in Fairfax County Virginia with the stabbing attack of another couple. […]