MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Patrick Testin, a state senator from Stevens Point, has filed paperwork to run for lieutenant governor and planned to officially announce it Sunday. Testin, 33, was first elected to the Senate in 2016. He is midway through his second term, so he does not have to give up his Senate seat to make a run for lieutenant governor in 2022. Ben Voelkel, a former aide to […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to dismiss a redistricting lawsuit brought by Democrats that asks a federal court to draw political boundary lines in the battleground state. The filing by attorneys representing the Republican-controlled Legislature comes two days after the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court said it would hear a similar case backed by the GOP. Republicans feel they will have a […]
Nobody was injured in a fire that destroyed a home in Fond du Lac County. Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Sergeant Logan Will says shortly before 2pm Friday a sheriff's deputy was on patrol on Highway 26 near Willow Creek Road when he noticed the fire and rescued two people trapped inside the house. Will says the deputy had to break a window to get inside. Firefighters from several departments […]
The Fond du Lac Police Chief says all evidence indicates a police officer who died this week from COVID-19 contracted the virus while on duty. Chief Aaron Goldstein made the statement in a Facebook post. Twenty six year old officer Joseph Kurer died Wednesday at Froedert Hospital in Milwaukee. Goldstein says the death is being treated as a line of duty death, the second COVID-19 line of duty death in Wisconsin. Meanwhile a memorial […]
The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says she was saddened to learn about the death of a young Fond du Lac police officer due to COVID-19. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says the death of 26 year old officer Joseph Kurer is so sad for the community. "Just seeing his picture and hearing his story I get choked up," Mueller told WFDL news. "This was a very young, […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin state schools chief Jill Underly says the state is “failing a generation of kids” by underfunding schools and allowing funding gaps to widen between schools. In her first address on the state of education, Underly on Thursday also called for an end to the angry displays seen at some school board meetings around the state over issues such as coronavirus protocols and curriculum. She says […]
A fourth Wisconsin voter out of roughly 3 million who cast ballots in the 2020 presidential election has been charged with election fraud by a Republican prosecutor who is running for attorney general. Fond du Lac District Attorney Eric Toney said the charge alleging that a felon voted illegally does not mean that the election won by President Joe Biden was stolen. But he says “the integrity of our electoral […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A resolution from Wisconsin Republicans calling for new political boundary lines to adhere as closely as possible to existing congressional and legislative districts is drawing criticism from Democrats who have long argued the existing maps are gerrymandered and unconstitutional. A GOP-controlled state Assembly committee on Thursday approved putting the resolution up for a vote before the full Assembly on Tuesday. It lays out parameters for any […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are renewing concerns about the vetting process of Afghanistan refugees who are being housed at a military base in the state after two Afghan men were charged with assault and engaging in a sexual act with a child. The criticism from U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson and others in Wisconsin comes as Republicans nationally, including aides to former President Donald Trump, are becoming increasingly hostile […]