MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Sens. Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin are holding a hearing on heroin use Friday in Pewaukee. Johnson, a Republican, says the rise of heroin-related deaths in Wisconsin is directly related to the insecurity of U.S. borders. "Drugs flow freely through our borders," Johnson told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New preliminary data shows Wisconsin's unemployment rate dropped slightly in March. The state Department of Workforce Development released a report Thursday that put the unemployment rate last month at 4.5 percent, down from 4.6 percent in February. The national unemployment rate was 5 percent in March, up from 4.9 percent in February. The report found the state added 11,500 nonfarm jobs in March. The private sector […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled employees can't be denied unemployment benefits for inadvertent errors, even if they are repeated after warnings. Thursday's 4th District Court of Appeals ruling is its first brush at interpreting "substantial fault," a new threshold the state Legislature established in 2013 tightening eligibility for unemployment benefits. Employees can't receive benefits if they're terminated for "substantial fault," defined as acts that violate […]
A Fond du Lac area woman is in custody following an incident at the Agnesian HealthCare Health Shoppe on Camelot Drive. Shortly after 3pm Thursday police received a call of a despondent woman at the Center possibly armed with a gun. Several squad cars responded and police quickly took the woman into custody without further incident. Nobody was injured.
The sister of a Fond du lac woman convicted in the shooting death of her husband and accused of helping her sister dispose of the body is free on a signature bond. Tina Ewell made her initial Fond du Lac court appearance Thursday on charges of party to the crime of hiding a corpse, resisting arrest and harboring a felon. Judge Gary Sharpe ordered a $5,000 signature bond citing Ewell’s strong ties to the […]
For the first time not one but two mock tornado warnings will be held this Thursday as part of Tornado and Severe Weather Awareness week in Wisconsin. Fond du Lac County Emergency management director Jim McNabb says the tornado sirens will sound at 1:45 Thursday afternoon for the first mock warning and again at 6:55pm for the second simulated warning. McNabb says by holding a second tornado drill in the evening it gives families a […]
A public meeting will be held Thursday on a proposed turning lane at the intersection of State 23 and County Road K in the city of Fond du Lac. The meeting will begin at 5:15 p.m. at the U-W Fond du Lac. Staff from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Fond du Lac County and the city of Fond du Lac will be available to discuss the project. Fond du lac County Highway commissioner Tom Janke […]
Dodge County District Attorney Kurt Klomberg has announced he will seek a third term as District Attorney. Klomberg has served the State of Wisconsin as a criminal prosecutor for 14 years, the past six of which have been as Dodge County’s D.A. "Dodge County is a safe place to live and I'm very happy to say that I'm raising my family here," Klomberg told WFDL news. Voters will elect the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Unions that won a ruling striking down Wisconsin's right-to-work law have submitted a proposed order finalizing the decision that would declare the law is unconstitutional statewide. Dane County Judge William Foust found the law amounts to an unconstitutional taking of union services on Friday as part of a lawsuit the Wisconsin AFL-CIO, Machinists Local Lodge 1061 and United Steelworkers District 2 filed last year. The unions […]