Authorities have identified the victim of a fatal two vehicle crash in Winnebago County. The Sheriff’s Office says 29 year old Paul Biolo was killed in the crash Tuesday evening on Interstate 41 southbound, about three miles south of Oshkosh. The Sheriff’s Office says there were two separate crashes within a half hour of each other. In the first crash a woman was hurt when her SUV rolled into a […]
Fond du Lac police say a Fond du Lac man may have died from hypothermia after he was found in the Fond du Lac River early Wednesday morning. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says the 57 year old man was pronounced dead at St. Agnes Hospital after he was pulled from the river shortly before 3am. Klein says an autopsy will hopefully determine if the man died from hypothermia. Temperatures […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new survey shows minority, disabled and gay students feel they're having a tougher time on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The school released findings from its first campus climate survey on Wednesday. The survey found that about 80 percent of respondents felt safe, welcome and respected on campus. However, only 65 percent of students of color, 67 percent of disabled students, 69 percent of LGBT […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Electric-car manufacturer Tesla would be able to sell its vehicles directly to customers in Wisconsin under a bill circulating in the Legislature. About 60 Tesla owners offered rides in their vehicles outside the Capitol on Wednesday as part of the push introducing the bill. Wisconsin law currently prohibits automakers from operating or controlling a car dealership. The bill would give an exemption to electric vehicle manufacturers. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Wisconsin. Walker told reporters Wednesday that he extended the invitation during his trade mission this week to Israel. Much of the focus of the trade mission has been about water needs and water technology. Walker says Netanyahu could benefit from visiting Chicago and Milwaukee along the shores of Lake Michigan. Walker says he hopes […]
NEENAH, Wis. (AP) — Police in two Wisconsin communities are investigating reports of candy tampering. Neenah police say officers met with a mother Tuesday night who discovered nails in three pieces of her son's Halloween candy. Police say they'll submit the candy to the crime lab for testing. Authorities say it appears to be an isolated incident. Arcadia police say they're investigating an individual who was handing out candy with […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A liberal advocacy group filed a federal lawsuit against three top Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, alleging they are infringing on the group's free speech rights by blocking it from commenting on their Twitter feeds. One Wisconsin Now filed the lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Madison. It names Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and state Reps. John Nygren and Jesse Kremer as defendants.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man killed by police during a standoff at a Wisconsin motorcycle shop. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach said Wednesday the actions of Neenah police officers Craig Hoffer and Robert Ross were reasonable. The officers shot 60-year-old Michael Funk as he tried to escape from Eagle Nation Cycles in Neenah in December 2015. Police […]
The former head of the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts in Fond du lac is now the former executive director of an arts center in Eau Claire. Kevin Miller resigned abruptly last week as director of the Confluence Arts Center, a little more than three months after he started. Arts Center officials didn’t give a reason, but the Eau-Claire newspaper reported that Miller didn’t earn degrees from UW-Eau Claire […]