Month: December 2014

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is telling Republican state senators he wants them focused on his agenda, not passing right-to-work legislation.  Walker spoke to senators during a caucus meeting in the Capitol on Wednesday.  Walker mentioned right-to-work briefly as he was outlining his priorities of cutting property taxes, consolidating state government and passing a school accountability bill. He says debating right-to-work early in the session would distract from […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A coalition of more than 300 construction-related private businesses in Wisconsin has formed to oppose a right-to-work proposal being discussed by Republican leaders in the Legislature.  The coalition was announced Wednesday by its spokesman Steve Lyons. He described the effort as a grass-roots movement that was being paid for voluntarily by members of the coalition. Lyons said more details about who is on the board of […]

One of three men arrested in connection with the robbery of a Tucker’s restaurant employee four years ago has been convicted of an amended charge.  Thomas Livangood pleaded no contest to false imprisonment, battery and theft.  He was originally charged with armed robbery.  A pre-sentence investigation was ordered.  Livangood and two others were arrested in the robbery of a Tucker’s restaurant employee in May of 2010.   Police say the […]

Two Fond du lac men are charged in connection with drug-related   armed robbery.  Delaney Watt made his initial Fond du Lac Court appearance Tuesday  and Prentice Shipp is expected to appear in court this week. Watt entered a not guilty plea and bail for Watt was set at $1000 cash.  A preliminary hearing is scheduled for January 16th.    Police say Shipp and Watt robbed a man at gunpoint […]

A Fond du Lac man has been convicted and sentenced in a hit and run injury crash.  Marcus Jones pleaded no contest to one count of hit and run causing great bodily harm.  Fond du lac judge Gary Sharpe imposed and stayed a one year prison sentence with two years of extended supervision.  Jones will spend 120 days in the county jail.  Police say Jones was driving a car that […]

Fond du lac police say a stripper apparently showed up at the wrong residence.  Police received a call Tuesday afternoon from a woman who said a black woman showed up at her Forest Avenue apartment and started taking off her clothes.  The caller told officers that she had never seen the woman before this incident.  Police searched the area but did not find the alleged stripper.

A Fox Lake man was killed after crashing his car during a high speed chase.  Police say 25 year old Ethan Plath died after crashing his car into a tree Monday along Highway 33.  The State Patrol says the chase started in Fox Lake, when the police chief attempted to pull Plath’s vehicle over.  Plath did not pull over and the chase continued south for nearly 18 miles along Highway […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new analysis finds that Wisconsin is the 12th highest taxed state in the country and third highest in the upper Midwest.  The nonpartisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance said that was based on Census data on tax collections Tuesday. It analyzed the tax data as a percentage of personal income.  The data shows that Wisconsin moved from 13th worst in 2011 up one spot to 12th in […]