Longtime Fond du lac County Board supervisor Paul Levandowski has died. Levandowski died Saturday after suffering a stroke. Fond du lac County executive Al Buechel says Levandowski had served a total of 13 years on the board. He was first elected 2002, went off the board in 2008 when the size of the board was reduced, and was elected to the board again in 2010. Levandowski served on a […]
The owner of three scrap metal companies accused of defrauding a Fond du lac scrap metal company out of millions of dollars has posted $1 million cash bond. Sterling Kienbaum made his initial Fond du lac court appearance Monday on charges of racketeering and theft. District Attorney Eric Toney says Kienbaum is accused of stealing $14 million from Sadoff Iron and Metal between 2009 and May of 2015. Investigators […]
A 62 year old woman has been arrested following a high speed chase over the weekend that started in Waupun. Deputy police chief Scott Louden tells WFDL news shortly after midnight Monday an officer attempted a traffic stop for a speeding violation but the SUV did not stop. The vehicle continued out of Waupun traveling east on Hwy 49 across the Horicon Marsh. The chase ended when the vehicle […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new report says borrowing by Wisconsin public school districts is at its highest levels in at least 20 years. The Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance reported Monday that voters approved $1.35 billion in new borrowing for Wisconsin public schools last year. The previous high, adjusted for inflation, was more than $1 billion in 1996. And this spring 23 districts are asking voters to approve nearly $708 million […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin Indian tribe is threatening to withhold nearly $1 million in casino payments to the state because of a dispute with the expansion of another tribe's gambling operation in northern Wisconsin. Stockbridge-Munsee President Shannon Holsey notified Gov. Scott Walker in a letter Monday about the tribe's intent to withhold a $923,000 payment to the state. The tribe operates the North Star Mohican Casino and Resort […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker said his budget proposal sets the state up for a sunny future. But that depends on how you look at it. The budget Walker submitted to the Legislature in February balances, as it's required to under state law. But when that same budget is measured using generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, the picture is much different. With that measurement, the state's true […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has found five deficiencies at the Wisconsin Veterans Home in King. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, whose request prompted a DVA review in early January, released a copy of the department's report on Monday. Deficiencies included administering the wrong cough syrup to a resident, failing to create a treatment plan for a resident with spasms and seizures and failing to monitor […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Elections Commission member Don Millis has resigned and is being replaced by the former chief of staff for former Republican Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch. Millis submitted a resignation letter effective Friday, saying the obligations of his law practice made it impossible for him to continue serving. Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald on Monday notified the commission that he was appointing Jodi Jensen for the […]
A Chilton woman has won the Badger 5 jackpot. Tammie George is the winner of the $62,000 jackpot from the Wednesday, January 18 drawing. George purchased her ticket at Superior Discount Liquor in Sheboygan. Her ticket matched the winning numbers of 9, 13, 23, 27 and 28.