Month: January 2019

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new public opinion poll is showing strong support for some of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers top priorities. The Marquette University Law School poll released Thursday shows that 62 percent of respondents want to accept federal money to expand Wisconsin's Medicaid program to cover more poor people. Evers is promising to propose that, even as Republican legislative leaders say it's going nowhere. The poll also shows […]

MARINETTE, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers plans to commit $31 million in his budget plan to help Marinette Marine. Evers went to Marinette on Thursday to announce his proposal to help the shipbuilder expand its shipyard and infrastructure. He says the expansion will help Marinette Marine compete for a $10 billion federal shipbuilding contract. Evers says the shipyard expansion will help Marinette Marine not only keep its workforce […]

Thirty years ago Thursday Fond du lac High School sophomore Jeff Merrill died playing the sport he loved.  Merrill was a star on the Goodrich High School hockey team when he was struck in the chest with a hockey puck in a freak accident on the ice.  Teammate Kent Ellingson remembers everything happened so fast.   "He (Jeff) got knocked down and as he was going down another player took a […]

The Fond du Lac police department says a recent  “swatting” incident is more than just a harmless prank.   A Fond du Lac man was arrested after making a false  911 call last week that a man was holding a woman hostage at gunpoint.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein says in this latest case police were able to track the cellphone call using GPS technology.  A 27 year old Fond du […]

Nine Wisconsin cities tied or set a new record for their lowest unemployment rate on record in December, including Fond du Lac.   The city of Fond du Lac’s unemployment rate last month was 2.3 percent, down from 2.4 percent in November.  The Fond du lac County jobless rate was unchanged at 2.2 percent.  The Dodge County unemployment rate was up a tenth of a percent to 2.3 percent.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch has a new job as executive director of the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission.  The commission announced Wednesday that Kleefisch had been sworn into the post on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Kleefisch served eight years as lieutenant governor under Gov. Scott Walker before losing re-election in November.  The commission she's leading was created by Congress in 2017 to lead commemorative and […]

As the government shutdown continues, Fond du Lac based Holiday Automotive announced today a number of methods intended to help ease the negative impact on government employed individuals and their families who are furloughed or continue to work without pay. “We want those affected who live in our community to know we are with them,” said Holiday Vice President, Michael Shannon Jr. “We’ve come up with these options to try […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources board is scaling back black bear hunting permits for 2019.  The board on Wednesday unanimously approved 11,595 permits for 2019, down from 12,970 last year. Two of the state's four bear management zones in far north-central Wisconsin and south-central Wisconsin will see decreases in available permits to combat declining a declining bear population in the north and growing hunter density […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Wisconsin says Walgreens has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle allegations that it failed to comply with Medicaid rules designed to ensure that stimulant medications are dispensed for appropriate medical treatment.  The Wisconsin Medicaid program reimburses a pharmacy for dispensing certain stimulant medications only if it first verifies that a physician prescribed the stimulant for medically appropriate treatment, […]