EAGLE RIVER, Wis. (AP) — A northern Wisconsin camp has been immersing its campers in the environment in some unconventional ways. Towering Pines Camp For Boys created an environmental immersion program in the 1970s called acclimatization. Campers interact with the natural world in some unusual ways that allow them to have different sensory experiences. One exercise involves experiencing the world like a raccoon, where campers have their thumbs taped […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker plans to veto $2.5 million for a study looking into whether to allow toll roads in Wisconsin and a provision that would have removed local oversight of rock quarries in the state. Walker says those budgets and others were agreed to Friday with the state Senate. Walker says in a statement he looks forward to signing the budget soon.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker plans to make a repeal of the prevailing wage for state construction projects take effect immediately, rather than a year from now, under a deal Republicans senators say they reached with him. The senators on Friday say that was part of a series of vetoes Walker promised to make to the budget to win their support. Without the backing of at least one […]
Nobody was seriously injured in a multiple vehicle crash in Fond du Lac Friday morning. Three vehicles collided at the intersection of 4th Street and Park Avenue.
The Wisconsin Attorney General has announced creation of a Wisconsin Department of Justice Human Trafficking Bureau. Attorney general Brad Schimel says the bureau will develop a statewide strategy to identify, target and prosecute traffickers and provide assistance to victims. Fond du Lac state senator Dan Feyen is one of five Republican lawmakers working with the bureau on human trafficking legislation. Feyen says Wisconsin has become a hub for human trafficking […]
A Fond du lac man is going to prison for robbing a man at gunpoint. Fond du Lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced Jacob Soyke to nine years in prison followed by 11 years of extended supervision. Police say Soyke was 17 years old when he went to the victim’s house, pointed a gun at the victim’s head and demanded money.
A Fond du Lac man has been sentenced to prison for dealing cocaine. Fond du lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced Kendall Ships to three years in prison and 10 years of extended supervision for two cocaine deliveries. He also got a year in jail for hit and run and drunken driving. According to a criminal complaint Ships sold cocaine to undercover MEG Drug Unit investigators.
Fond du Lac police are still looking for a man who fired a gunshot into the air earlier this week. Police were called to a report of a man armed with a shotgun in the 500 block of South Main Street. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says when officers arrived the man dropped the gun, fled on foot and is still at large. Klein says police are not sure why […]
A spokesman for Wisconsin Emergency Management says some National Guard troops activated to assist relief and recovery efforts in Florida may not actually be deployed. While some troops are already in Florida, Emergency Management spokesman Tod Pritchard says others are on stand by. "That initial search and rescue that we were fearing we would have to respond to is less than an issue than we thought," Pritchard told WFDL news. […]