Month: October 2019

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican Wisconsin state lawmaker who is running for Congress wants to call a convention of the states to consider making changes to the U.S. Constitution, including imposing term limits on federal offices.  State Sen. Tom Tiffany is co-sponsoring the resolution in the state Legislature to call the constitutional convention. Fifteen other states have already passed it.  The measure up for a hearing on Thursday would is calling […]

A Fond du Lac company has landed more work in the latest round of contract awards announced by Foxconn Technology Group.  CD Smith Construction has been awarded contracts for concrete slab on grade and slab on deck work and masonry work. The contracts are part of 16 additional awards announced totaling more than $83 million for construction work at the Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park in southeast Wisconsin.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Schnuck Markets Inc., one of the Midwest’s largest grocery store chains, will stop selling cigarettes, chewing tobacco and other tobacco products as of Jan. 1.  Suburban St. Louis-based Schnucks announced the move Thursday. Schnucks is the largest grocer in the St. Louis area and operates 115 stores overall in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa. The privately-held company already does not sell e-cigarettes or vaping products.  […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says he sees nothing wrong with U.S. investigators asking for assistance from the Ukraine and China to look into former Democratic Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.  President Donald Trump on Thursday called on China to investigate Biden. Trump also affirmed the approach he made in private to Ukraine’s president that has led to the impeachment investigation by the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says he sees small dairy farms as both American and Wisconsin traditions, while refusing to directly criticize comments made by President Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary suggesting they may need to get bigger to survive.  Johnson told reporters Thursday that small dairy farms are a tradition “we want to do everything we can to preserve.” He says larger dairy farms could provide […]

A Fond du Lac man has been sentenced to prison for federal firearms and drug charges.  Thirty eight year old Joshua Klein was sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison and five years extended supervision.  Authorities say Klein possessed with intent to deliver heroin and marijuana from his Fond du Lac residence and had multiple prior felony convictions, including unlawful firearm possession and drug trafficking.  Authorities say a co-conspirator, 46 […]

The National Weather Service says wetter than normal rainfall over the past decade has made Wisconsin more susceptible to flooding.   Meteorologist John Gagan says when the water table is up and the ground is moist there is a lower tolerance when it comes to flooding.  "If you go to last summer, and all the tremendous rains that we had in August and again in September and October, that really set the […]

Dodge and Fond du lac County officials are assessing damage to roads and other infrastructure following this week’s flooding.  Dodge County Emergency Management director Amy Nehls says flooding washed out shoulders and left dirt and debris on roads.   Nehls says Highway 28 north of Theresa could be closed for a couple of days before the water recedes.  Nehls says the Juneau Airport reported just over four inches of rain overnight,  Tuesday into Wednesday with […]

The Fond  du Lac Public Works director says in many ways Fond du Lac  "dodged a bullet"  during this week’s flooding rain.  Jordan Skiff says the city bypassed the sanitary sewer system at several locations in the city in an effort to prevent basement back-ups.  "Seven locations of bypassing.  The second area was the Wastewater Treatment plant itself.  We started blending partially treated wastewater with fully treated wastewater before it went […]