Month: February 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is renewing efforts designed to lower prescription drug costs. He's putting forward a proposal in his state budget that the Republican-controlled Legislature previously rejected. The plans were unveiled Wednesday. That's less than two weeks before the Democratic governor is set to release his two-year spending plan to the Legislature. Republicans will spend the next several months rewriting the proposal before passing something, […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A new lawsuit alleges that worldwide electronics leader Foxconn Technology Group violated terms of its contract in Wisconsin, while local governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prepare for the project. Hintz Real Estate Development Co. claims Foxconn is in breach of its contract by failing to construct a Generation 10.5 LCD manufacturing facility in southeast Wisconsin not far from the Illinois border. The Milwaukee Journal […]

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a teenager who is still on the run in a fatal shooting at a mall in eastern Wisconsin. According to a criminal complaint filed in Outagamie County Circuit Court on Tuesday, 17-year-old Dezman Ellis and 19-year-old Jovanni Frausto were at the Fox River Mall in suburban Appleton with friends Sunday afternoon and had a chance encounter. The complaint says Ellis was with his […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of voters identified as possibly having  moved in Wisconsin shrunk by two-thirds before the November presidential election, and none of the people still on the list cast ballots in 2020. The Wisconsin Elections Commission was discussing the report Wednesday. More than 232,000 voters were initially identified in 2019 as potentially having moved. The elections commission says that the number of people still on the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican legislator chosen to lead Speaker Robin Vos' racial disparities task force called the job a “political loser” but said the GOP could use the panel to make Democrats and Gov. Tony Evers look bad. Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke said in an email to Vos in August that he would volunteer to lead the task force but that it would be impossible to please […]

Envision Greater Fond du Lac is leading the charge in assembling a task force addressing diversity, equity, and inclusion.  Envision president Sadie Parafiniuk says diversity, equity and inclusion means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.  Parafiniuk says Envision wants to lead the task force because DEI is also about workforce development.

Fond  du Lac police are investigating a fatal crash.  The crash happened Tuesday afternoon on Military Road near the Ole Bread Box when a car left the road striking a pole and fire hydrant.  Fond du Lac Fire Chief Pete O’Leary says when paramedics first arrived on the scene the driver was conscious and walking around.  O’Leary says the man started having a seizure and went into cardiac arrest.   A 33 year old […]