Month: November 2015

SUSSEX, Wis. (AP) — Quad/Graphics Inc. says its plans to begin closing plants and taking others steps to cut $100 million in costs after the Wisconsin-based printing company posted disappointing financial results.  Chief executive Joel Quadracci said Tuesday that Quad's third quarter financial performance was "challenging and below our expectations."  Quadracci says the Sussex-based company is taking "swift and decisive action," and announcing a $100 million cost reduction program to […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Proposals that would wipe out Wisconsin's nonpartisan elections board and overhaul campaign finance law are set to be considered by the Senate later this week in an extraordinary session. The state Assembly passed the bills last month but the measures have bogged down in the Senate. Now action is scheduled for Friday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says newly elected House Speaker Paul Ryan's call for bipartisanship has prompted him to reach out to Wisconsin Democrats on a higher education student loan bill. Vos said in the spirit of "wiping the slate clean" he will allow the bill to be referred to the budget committee where it could be examined more closely. But Vos says the measure as […]

Democratic congresswoman Gwen Moore says newly elected House speaker Paul Ryan is a man of integrity.   Moore considers Ryan a friend even though the two don’t see eye to eye politically on most issues.  "I think the benefit of my relationship has been that if you can get an agreement out of Paul Ryan he will keep his word,"  Moore told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program.  "He has […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) —Hall of Fame Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr wasn't in attendance today when the Wisconsin Assembly passed a resolution in his honor. The 81-year-old most valuable player in the first Super Bowl is recovering from a life-threatening lung infection about a year after a heart attack and multiple strokes debilitated him.

Recent national statistics show that more than 1.6 million people receive hospice services each year, and that number is expected to climb as Baby Boomers continue to age and begin to face the end of their lifetimes.    Agnesian HealthCare’s Hospice Hope is already seeing this upswing, and is taking action thanks to the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation and community support to expand its Hospice Home of Hope residential facility, located […]

Vic Rose was selected as Marian University’s October Veteran of the Month.  Rose served as a cook in the Army, and continues to serve his community as a Hospice Hope volunteer. Rose recognizes the unique end-of-life challenges that face other veterans during the end of life journey, and provides a final salute to veterans in the Fond du Lac community.  The Veteran of the Month contest, presented by Marian University […]

A North Fond du lac woman has been convicted of social security fraud.  According to court documents 56 year old Marianne Truitt pleaded no contest tn federal court to embezzlement.  Investigators say she collected more than $248,000 in benefits for 15 years after her mother died in 1995.  Investigators say Truitt initially thought she was entitled to the benefits, based on what her mother had told her, but by 2000, […]

Sources inside the Waupun Correctional Institution say a correctional officer was severely beaten by an inmate.  The incident was reported Friday afternoon during second shift.  Sources tell WFDL news the female officer was dragged into a secluded area and physically assaulted.  She was transported to the hospital, but the extent of her injuries is unknown.  A DOC spokesman says the victim "will be fine."  The inmate was working as a […]