Fond du Lac police continue to investigate after a starving dog was found in an empty Fond du Lac apartment over the weekend. Police found the dog in the apartment on South Hickory Road, and are now trying to determine who the dog’s owner is. Fond du Lac animal shelter manager, Renee Webb, says the emaciated Pit Bull is recovering a the Fond du Lac animal shelter. "The dog had absolutely no fat mass […]
Fond du Lac High School officials are closer to capturing a python that escaped from its cage in a science classroom at the high school over the weekend. Principal Matt Steinbarth says it appears the snake crawled into a vent in the classroom. Steinbarth says the hope is the snake will slither back out on it’s own. "That's our hope. We have a heat source that the teacher uses, we have extra […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump's plan to kill or delay hundreds of construction projects on U.S. military bases to help fund border fencing includes diverting money for a Wisconsin Air National Guard base shooting range. Guard spokesman Joe Trovato confirmed that $8 million earmarked for building a small-arms range at Truax Field in Madison would be diverted to wall funding. Construction had been set to begin next year. U.S. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan has simple advice for whoever becomes his party's nominee for president: Show up. Hillary Clinton was widely criticized for not campaigning once in Wisconsin during the general election. She lost to President Donald Trump in Wisconsin by fewer than 23,000 votes. Pocan told reporters Wednesday that he's confident mistakes made in the 2016 election won't be repeated in 2020. Pocan says in […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new poll shows that President Donald Trump's job approval rating in the key swing state of Wisconsin remains below 50%. The Marquette University Law School poll released Wednesday comes 14 months before the 2020 election. The poll shows that 45% approve of the job Trump is doing, while 53% disapprove. That is about the same as Trump's 46% job approval rating in April. The poll also shows […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature's finance committee has signed off on spending an additional $1.5 million on tourism marketing. Democratic Gov. Toney Evers' 2019-21 state budget would have given the Department of Tourism an additional $5 million for marketing. Republicans who control the finance committee walked that back to $1.5 million but held off on releasing the money because the department lacked a spending plan. The department now says […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans who control the Legislature's finance committee have scuttled a meeting with Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul on whether to settle a handful of lawsuits. Republicans passed a law in a December lame-duck session that requires Kaul to get the committee's permission before settling lawsuits. But Kaul won't discuss any settlements unless committee members sign non-disclosure agreements. He says confidentiality is a key part of many settlements. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature's finance committee is releasing $200,000 to help farmers deal with mental health problems. More farmers are grappling with mental health issues as the industry shifts to factory farm models, milk prices continue to fall and President Donald Trump's trade war intensifies. The Joint Finance Committee included $200,000 in the state budget to help farmers but didn't authorize the state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — An attorney for Bucks guard Sterling Brown says Milwaukee's $400,000 offer to settle Brown's lawsuit against the city over his arrest last year is insufficient because it doesn't include an admission of guilt. Attorney Mark Thomsen said Wednesday that any settlement would have to include such an admission. The city's Common Council has given Brown 14 days to accept or decline the settlement offer. Brown contends in his lawsuit that […]