BEAVER DAM, Wis. (AP) — Authorities have arrested two teenagers in connection with a shooting at the Fleet Farm store in Beaver Dam. Police say an assistant manager at the store was shot in the parking lot Wednesday evening as he helped another employee detain a 17-year-old suspected of shoplifting some ammunition. The teen is accused of pulling out a handgun and shooting the 31-year-old assistant manager in the shoulder […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin state Senate has approved a public financing deal for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena. Republicans crafted a bill that would devote $250 million in public dollars to the project. GOP leaders controls the Senate 19-14 but didn't have enough support to get to 17 votes, forcing them to ask minority Democrats to join them. The parties brokered a deal Wednesday afternoon that includes a […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says federal law bars the drug testing of food stamp recipients that Wisconsin plans. Vilsack responded Wednesday to a lawsuit filed by Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel asking a federal judge to declare that state budget provisions requiring food stamp recipients to undergo drug testing are legal. In a statement, Vilsack says Congress has "repeatedly rejected the expensive, intrusive practice of […]
Five people were injured one seriously in a three vehicle crash on Highway 23 east of Fond du Lac. At 1106am on Wednesday, the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office along with the Wisconsin State Patrol responded to a report that a Semi tractor trailer unit had collided head-on with 2 vehicles on Hwy 23 east of Tower Rd in the Town of Empire. Evidence at the scene indicated the […]
(Dr. Tim Twohig with WFDL news director Greg Stensland) The head of Fond du lac Baseball Inc. says there’s no reason why kids shouldn’t be playing ball on the 4th Street baseball diamonds this summer. The gates to the diamonds have been locked after the school district renegotiated the lease with Baseball Inc. Fond du Lac School superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says it was Baseball Inc’s decision to close the […]
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is aiming to get more people in life jackets by installing kiosks that let people just grab one and go at popular swimming and boating locations. It's part of the agency's Kids Don't Float Program. The most recent kiosk was installed Friday near the Lake Wazeecha boat landing in Wisconsin Rapids. The agency's website says there were more than […]
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Presidential candidate Scott Walker is finding support among South Carolina Republicans for his pledge to scrap the nuclear deal that the Obama administration has negotiated with Iran. The Wisconsin governor is promising "crippling economic sanctions" instead, but he's not explaining how those penalties would differ from what's been imposed for years. Walker visited a Charleston-area Harley-Davidson dealership during a full day in the state, which […]
Clean up continues in Columbus after strong straight line winds toppled trees and power lines early Monday morning. Mayor Kelly Crombie says the community looks a lot better today than it did three days ago. "There wasn't a whole lot of structural damage, there were a number of homes with significant damage, but there were no total losses," Crombie told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program. Crombie says damage […]
Fond du Lac firefighters and the Green Bay Packers are launching a fundraising campaign to raise money with a goal of providing child ID kits to all children in the state. Director of the American Football Coaches Association National Child Identification program Kenny Hansmire says Fond du Lac is the first community in the country to participate in the Fill the Helmet campaign. "There's over 800,000 children reported missing every […]