MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new state report says Department of Workforce Development call centers were too busy to answer almost 1.7 million calls from people looking to claim unemployment benefits in the year that ended June 30. The Legislative Audit Bureau issued findings Tuesday showing that DWD placed people in hold queue when call center staff were busy. If more calls were received than the queue would hold, the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new report says the state Department of Workforce Development overpaid nearly $168 million in unemployment benefits during the three years that ended June 30. The Legislative Audit Bureau released findings Tuesday that show the agency identified 681,400 overpayments totaling $167.9 million from fiscal year 2011-12 through fiscal year 2013-14. The audit attributed about 85 percent of the overpayments to people who unintentionally provided the agency […]
Warden Rick Reed of Waukesha got a call from a Delafield homeowner about a doe that went for a surprise dip in the emptied backyard pool. Is it a doe... or a lawn ornament. See the head just beyond the slide. “The deer apparently walked across the pool cover and fell through,” Warden Rick says of his Friday, December 12, afternoon call. “It was kind of going crazy underneath there.” […]
A North Carolina woman is in custody after allegedly stabbing a Medford man in the village of Eden last night. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says the incident was reported shortly after 10:30pm Monday following an argument between the couple in the area of 124 Manor Hill Dr. The victim was transported to the hospital with a stab wound to his upper back. A 27 year old female […]
The Fond du Lac Department of Public Works would like to inform the motoring public of the closure of Everett Street between 3rd Street and 4th Street. The closure will begin Tuesday, December 16th, 2014 at 7:00 am and will reopen at the end of the day Tuesday. The closure is due to utility work on Everett Street. The public is asked to plan an alternate route during this time […]
A Fond du Lac County man was killed when a homemade meat smoker exploded over the weekend. Sheriff’s sergeant Jeff Bonack says town of Lamartine resident 55 year old Richard Zabel was attempting to relight an LP gas burner in a homemade smoker when the explosion occurred. Bonack says when Zabel tried to relight the burner the smoker blew open and struck him in the head. He was pronounced […]
Waupun police have arrested two people wanted in separate cases. Police Chief Dale Heeringa says a 20 year old woman was arrested at a Gateway Drive location for a felony drug warrant. "As they were taking her into custody officers noticed she was fumbling around with things in her pocket and tried to hide things or dump things," Heeringa told WFDL news. "They found she was also in possession of […]
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin says a Senate Intelligience Committee report into the CIA’s harrowing interrogation practices after 9/11 reveals a chapter in our history that we need to learn from. The scathing torture report outlines sweeping allegations of CIA wrongdoing. "The major takeaway from this is that practices that were used in the months following 9/11 in some cases were harsher than what we even knew. In some cases were […]
Fond du Lac Congressman Tom Petri is speaking publically for the first time since the House Ethics Committee cleared him of any wrongdoing when he acted on behalf of two companies in which he owned a significant amount of stock. Petri says he's glad the committee closed the case against him and didn’t leave it hanging out there when he retires at the end of the year. "There's no […]