Month: April 2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nine University of Wisconsin System schools plan to ask regents this week for permission to dramatically raise tuition for graduate and non-resident students to help offset $300 million in cuts Gov. Scott Walker has proposed in his state budget.  The schools include UW-Madison, UW-La Crosse, UW-Milwaukee, UW-Parkside, UW-Platteville, UW-River Falls, UW-Stevens Point, UW -Stout and UW-Whitewater. The increases vary by school. UW-Madison's plan, for example, calls […]

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mike Krzyzewski  and the Duke Blue Devils have their fifth NCAA championship following their work of their four freshmen.  Tyus Jones, Jahlil Okafor, Justice Winslow and Grayson Allen carried the Blue Devils to a 68-63 comeback victory over Wisconsin at Indianapolis. Duke trailed 48-39 with about 13 1/2 minutes to play before the four frosh scored every one of the Blue Devils' points the rest of the […]

Fond du Lac County has been selected as a test county for new election equipment.  The county board approved the purchase last fall and clerk Lisa Freiberg says the new equipment will be tested at three locations in the county April 28th.  "We will be testing in the town of Oakfield, the town of Rosendale and the city of Fond du Lac,"  Freiberg said.   Freiberg says most of the changes […]

The Fond du Lac County Clerk is predicting a low voter turnout in Tuesday's spring election.  Lisa Freiberg says she expects to see a turnout of about 23-25 percent.  Freiberg says there will probably be higher turnout in areas where there are big issues or races.  Freiberg says two school board contests will feature write in candidates.  In Campbellsport there are no candidates on the ballot for an open school […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican state Sen. Rob Cowles says he wants all 49 policy provisions included in Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposal removed before the two-year spending plan is debated by the Legislature.  Cowles on Monday released a memo he requested from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau listing all the proposals in Walker's budget that primarily relate to policy and not the state's finances.  Cowles says all of the […]

The state Department of Criminal Investigation is assisting the state Fire Marshal’s Office and Fond du Lac police in the investigation of a fire that destroyed a home this week.  Firefighters were called to the scene at 20 South Lincoln Street early Monday morning.  Fire chief Pete O’Leary says the cause of the fire remains under investigation.  O’Leary says the occupants of the residence were not home when the fire […]

A preliminary hearing is scheduled later this month for a Kenosha man charged in the cold case slaying of a Sturdevant teenager in Fond du Lac County.   Dennis Brantner is charged with first degree murder in the 1990 death of Berit Beck.  A preliminary hearing for Brantner is scheduled for April 30th.   Brantner is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on a million dollars cash bail.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drought conditions are expanding across a large section of the U.S., from California to the Great Plains.  The National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska says the area covered by moderate drought or worse expanded by nearly five percentage points to 36.8 percent during March.  The drought monitor shows dry conditions broadened in the Midwest with 22 percent of the U.S. corn production […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Protesters are calling for the United Nations to investigate a Wisconsin police shooting because they feel the United States government can't be trusted.  Members of Young, Gifted and Black and members of 19-year-old Tony Robinson's family held a news conference at Madison's courthouse on Monday to say they don't believe the Wisconsin Department of Justice's probe into Robinson's death is fair since the agency is staffed […]