MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker wants to eliminate the enrollment cap on Wisconsin's private-school voucher program. Walker released his plan for expanding the program in his state budget on Tuesday. Currently, enrollment in the program outside of Milwaukee and Racine is capped at 1,000 students. Walker would remove the lid, but limit new enrollments only to students coming from public schools. Money to pay for the voucher would […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker's budget would cut state general fund spending in the first year but raise it in the second to help plug a projected shortfall. The budget he delivered to the Legislature on Tuesday would cut state spending less than half a percentage point in the first year. It would go up 6.7 percent the second year. There is no across-the-board cut to state government. […]
Wisconsin tax officials are taking steps to protect your identity and your refund this tax season. Department of Revenue spokeswoman Stephanie Marquis says the department’s identity verification program to help guard against fraud is being used for the second year in a row. Marquis says tax returns are selected for review based soley on analytics where various factors indicate the possibility of identity fraud. When this happens the department will […]
Fond du Lac police are investigating the possibility that several business burglaries reported over the last week may be related. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says burglaries were reported over the weekend at the Salvation Army Thrift Store, Gremmer and Associates, MidWest Dental Care and an attempted burglary at Preferred Chiropractic. "We are looking to see if these are possibly connected to a couple burglaries we had about a week […]
A Lowell woman is facing charges for allegedly embezzling over 17 thousand dollars when she worked as the office manager for a Dodge County Cemetery. 35 year old Katie Norton is charged with two counts of theft of a business setting of over 10 thousand dollars. She made her initial Dodge County Circuit Court appearance Monday. Norton is accused of taking the money when she worked at Highland Memory Gardens […]
A West Bend woman has been convicted of striking and critically injuring a pedestrian with a vehicle in Beaver Dam and fleeing the scene in January 2014. 22 year old Stephanie Goltz entered the no contest plea Monday in Dodge County Circuit Court to a charge of hit and run involving great bodily harm. A charge of knowingly operating while revoked causing great bodily harm was dismissed and read into the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group with Midwest ties has been chosen to redevelop a massive site planned as the new home for Wisconsin's Department of Transportation. The project would replace the existing 400,000-square-foot Hill Farms state office building in Madison with another that's 600,000 square feet. It would be Wisconsin's largest state-owned office building and could cost the state as much as $196 million. A Department of Administration spokesman […]
BEAVER DAM, Wis. (AP) — A Beaver Dam police officer says he's quite certain he's never responded to a call like the one he handled recently at a McDonald's restaurant. Officer Rich Dahl responded to an anonymous complaint about a woman who brought a kangaroo into McDonald's. Dahl said Tuesday the woman had the baby kangaroo wrapped in a blanket and tucked in an infant car seat. Dahl says when […]
The Fond du Lac City Police Department’s K-9 dog helped track down a Green Lake County hit and run suspect over the weekend,. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says K-9 Packo and his handler Officer Ben Hardgrove were called to help locate the suspect near the Lawsonia golf course. Klein said the suspect, a 21 year old Ripon man was found hiding in a wooded area several miles from the […]