Month: January 2018

Fond du Lac Republican state senator Dan Feyen says he hasn’t decided  if he will vote to fire the state elections and ethics commission administrators.  Feyen says some fellow Republican senators believe Michael Hass and Brian Bell acted in a partisan manner  during the John Doe investigation of Governor Scott Walker.  Feyen says he’s still reviewing the attorney general’s report on the John Doe investigation.  "It doesn't say they leaked […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Opponents say Gov. Scott Walker's welfare overhaul proposal is a politically tone deaf effort that will do more harm than good.  Walker on Thursday called on the Legislature to approve a variety of measures that include tougher work requirements, additional drug testing and a new photo identification requirement for food stamp recipients.  Bobby Peterson is director of ABC for Health, a nonprofit law firm that helps […]

TOWN OF HARMONY, Wis. (AP) — Authorities in southern Wisconsin say a woman's body was found frozen next to her car outside her rural home.  Rock County sheriff's detectives are investigating but foul play is not suspected in the death of 52-year-old Lorie Hanson.  Capt. Todd Christiansen says Hanson's body was found in her driveway just east of Janesville on Wednesday. Christiansen says she might have been there overnight.  Temperatures […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — A defendant accused of initiating a fatal police standoff at a Neenah motorcycle shop will be allowed to represent himself at his upcoming trial after a judge allowed the ninth and tenth lawyers assigned to the case to withdraw.  A two-week trial for Brian Flatoff is expected to begin March 5, more than two years after the standoff at Eagle Nation Cycles. The standoff on December […]

A Fond du Lac man arrested following a shooting  incident last fall has been bound over for trial.   Antino Jones waived his preliminary hearing Thursday afternoon on charges of  attempted first degree intentional homicide.   Jones  is accused of shooting a 31 year old Fond du Lac man in the stomach at a residence on the corner of  Western Avenue and Oak Street…across the street from the jail.  The victim was […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Preliminary estimates show unemployment in Wisconsin reached a record low in December.  The state Department of Workforce Development released figures Thursday that show the unemployment rate in December was 3 percent. That's a record for December and matches the lowest rate on record.  The rate was down 0.2 percentage points from November. The national unemployment rate in December was 4.1 percent.  The state added 1,300 private-sector […]

State Democratic party leaders say an upset Democratic victory in a traditionally conservative senate district this week may be an early sign of what to expect this fall.   Democrat Patty Schachtner was elected to a state senate seat that was held by Republican Sheila Harsdorf for 17 years before she was appointed state ag secretary last year.   State Democratic party chairwoman Martha Lanning says people in that district and elsewhere […]

The Fond du Lac County Clerk is defending the embattled state elections and ethics committee chairmen.    Lisa Freiberg, a Republican,  says she supports Michael Haas and Brian Bell.  Freiberg says both men are doing a fine job.  "...and to shake up that commission again when we got rid of the government accountability board, in a four-plus election year...where's our guidance?  We need to move forward and stop looking back,"  Freiberg […]