Month: May 2017

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says the driver of a semi may have suffered a medical condition before a crash Monday afternoon. The Sheriff’s Office says the crash happened shortly after noon Monday on the interchange ramps to and from US Highway 151 at County Highway G, in the Township of Beaver Dam. The semi tractor trailer was northbound on 151 and exited at the off-ramp at Highway G, when […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is threatening to take the unprecedented step of vetoing the entire Wisconsin state budget if it races property taxes on homeowners. Walker tweeted the threat on Monday, repeating a warning he first made via Twitter last week. No governor has ever vetoed the entire state budget since 1931. That is the year the budget was first passed as a single, large bill. Wisconsin […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel wants the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an order to redraw Wisconsin's legislative district boundaries. A group of voters filed a federal lawsuit in 2015 arguing the Republican-drawn boundaries unconstitutionally discriminate against Democrats. A three-judge panel agreed and ordered lawmakers to redraw the boundaries by November. Schimel has appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices haven't decided yet whether to […]

MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — A man who was convicted of killing a Manitowoc police officer when he was a teenager has had his request for a new sentence denied. Jason Halda will continue serving his sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Halda was 17 when prosecutors say he killed Officer Dale Tenhaken in 1998. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Halda […]

TOWN OF WHITESTOWN, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old boy has died after he was accidentally shot by a friend while hunting in Vernon County. Sheriff's officials say the boy and his 15-year-old friend were going turkey hunting on private land in the Town of Whitestown Sunday. When the two got out of the vehicle, a pistol held by the younger boy discharged, striking the older boy in the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was going nowhere fast when his elevator got stuck in a Wisconsin hotel. Stewart was in Madison over the weekend to race at Angell Park Speedway on Sunday. It was shortly after midnight when the elevator carrying him and six others stopped at the second floor of the Staybridge Suites. City firefighters quickly got the doors open to free Stewart and […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The hundreds of construction workers putting up the new Milwaukee Bucks arena stretch, bend, squat and wiggle — all before 7 a.m. The daily loosening-up regimen is a priority for Minnesota-based Mortenson Construction, which is managing the $524 million project. Mel Langlais, safety director for the company's Milwaukee Operating Group, said that the morning sessions aren't just about stretching. Langlais says they are a cultural thing that […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who says he's been appointed an assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, has denied he plagiarized content in his master's thesis on homeland security.   The denial follows a CNN report Saturday saying Clarke, a strong supporter of President Donald Trump, failed to attribute sources at least 47 times in his 2013 thesis. Clarke said that "only someone with a […]

The Fond du Lac police chief says the city of Fond du Lac’s overall crime rate is down.  Chief Bill Lamb told the Fond du Lac city council last week that property and violent crime combined dropped three percent in the city last year.  Lamb says the biggest area of concern is  aggravated assaults, and he says most of those are domestic related.  "Somewhere between 60 and 70 percent of […]