Month: March 2017

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin health care leaders and policy makers are still grappling with trying to understand implications of the fast-moving House Republican health care overhaul bill.  Republican Gov. Scott Walker's administration has been working since last week on its own breakdown of what the proposal would mean to the state and the 242,000 people who currently purchase federally subsidized private insurance through the marketplace.  Wisconsin Department of Health […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has released a highly unusual decision in which none of the justices identified how they ruled in a tie vote for the first time in nearly 40 years.  The court issued a two-sentence opinion Tuesday saying it had reached a 3-3 tie in a dispute between a cargo company's co-owners. The ruling noted that Justice Dan Kelly didn't participate but didn't say […]

A police chase in the Oshkosh area has ended with the suspect driving his car onto an airport runway. The Wisconsin State Patrol says a trooper going north on Highway 41 on Tuesday noticed a couple of cars coming up fast behind him. One car sped past the trooper, and when the trooper tried to pull over the driver the car sped up.  The chased continued toward Oshkosh and then […]

A Fond du Lac man has been bound over for trial for reckless homicide in the heroin overdose death of a Fond du Lac woman.  Forty one year old Joshua Asencio is being held in the Fond du lac County Jail on $100,000 cash bond.  Asencio is accused of supplying the heroin that led to the overdose death of a 33 year old Fond du Lac woman at a Berger […]

Bail has been set at $500,000 for one of nine people arrested in connection with a heroin bust in Fond du lac and Winnebago  counties.  Richard Ferguson made his initial Fond du lac court appearance Tuesday on three counts of  manufacture-delivery of heroin.  Judge Richard Nuss set bail at a half million dollars cash.  A preliminary hearing is scheduled for April 28th.

One of nine people arrested in a major heroin bust in Fond du lac and Winnebago counties last month has been bound over for trial.    Probable cause was found at a preliminary hearing Friday for Shequazia Robertson on three counts of manufacture-delivery of heroin.

Information regarding the 2017 Fond du Lac School District’s Summer School program offerings will be available April 3 on the District website (fonddulac.k12.wi.us) under "Programs>Summer School."  The link on the website will take you to the brochure and online registration form. If you are unable to sign up online, brochures and registration forms will also be available at any school building or at the Administration Center, 72 W. 9th Street. The […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Taxpayer-funded payments to children choosing to attend private schools using a voucher will increase an estimated $217 per-student in each of the next two years.  And those payments will continue to exceed per-student state aid for Wisconsin's public schools.  New estimates were prepared by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau and released Monday by Democrats opposed to the voucher program.  The Fiscal Bureau numbers show that the […]

The Fond du Lac police chief says the Department never lost its focus to protect the community during an investigation and subsequent court action involving a former police officer.   Chief Bill Lamb made the comments on AM 1170’s Between the Lines program after the Fond du lac Police and Fire Commission  last week dismissed a charge filed by the former Fond du lac County District Attorney accusing Lamb of […]