Month: January 2020

Wisconsin Republicans have introduced a package  of legislation that would impose tougher sanctions and sentences on criminals. The bills would prohibit people convicted of violent crimes from being discharged early from probation, make people convicted of violent crimes ineligible for early release, impose a mandatory 180-day jail sentence for shoplifting and expand the list of crimes that could land a child in a youth prison to any act that would […]

The city of Fond du Lac has reached a settlement agreement with Walmart in a civil lawsuit filed by Walmart alleging their assessed property values are too high.   The complaint filed by  Walmart alleged the value of their Fond du lac property was no higher than $5.4 million and that the city’s assessment of nearly  $10.5 million was excessive.  Under the agreement, the assessment is listed at $10 million resulting […]

The Better Business Bureau serving Wisconsin is warning Packer fans to take steps not to become a victim of a ticket scam if you plan on traveling to San Franscisco to watch the NFC championship game. Susan Bach with the BBB says tickets for Sunday’s game are running from $400 to as much as $1400 a piece.   She says the first piece of advice is not to bargain shop and if it the deal […]

There are few franchises that have been as intertwined over the last quarter-century as much as the Green Bay and San Francisco. There are coaches getting groomed in one spot and ending up in the other. There are seven previous playoff meetings with the Packers winning four behind stars like Brett Favre and Reggie White and the Niners behind players such as Terrell Owens and Colin Kaepernick. The two teams […]

National Weather Service meteorologists are closely watching another storm system that could end up dumping several inches of snow later this week in Wisconsin.   Meteorologist Paul Collar says the still developing system has the potential to bring heavy snow to the Badger state as we head into the weekend.  Collar says the storm system is still offshore, more than a thousand miles away so things could still change between now and Friday.

Hay tainted by a toxic beetle is blamed for the deaths of 14 horses and illnesses to dozens of others on a Wisconsin ranch. Summer flooding left the hay from fields at Red Ridge Riding Stable in Mauston unusable. So, the owners purchased hay and alfalfa from farms in South Dakota and Wyoming. A blister beetle that releases a toxin when crushed during harvest is blamed for the horses' deaths […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Donald Trump makes his first 2020 appearance in battleground Wisconsin for a rally that coincides with a Democratic presidential debate in neighboring Iowa. Counter-protests and other related events organized by both Democrats and the Trump administration were planned in Milwaukee ahead of the rally. The event was to be just across the street where Democrats will gather in six months for their national convention to pick […]

Wisconsin's state superintendent of schools will not run for a full term in 2021. Carolyn Stanford Taylor was appointed to the position in January 2019 after Tony Evers left the job to become governor. She said in a statement Monday that she had promised to Evers she would complete his term as state superintendent and that is what she will do. The term ends in July 2021. She was Wisconsin's […]

Nobody was injured in a dryer fire at a Fond du Lac apartment complex.  Firefighters were called to the scene at 27 Fountain Circle Monday afternoon and quickly extinguished the fire but not before it had extended into the wall.  Division Chief of Fire Prevention Troy Haase says the fire started in a dryer in the first floor apartment  unit.  A resident in the apartment was displaced because of smoke damage caused […]