Month: February 2022

The Fond du Lac Fire Chief is reminding residents to properly discard burning materials after two recent residential fires.   A January 29 fire that started in garbage container damaged a  garage, and a fire this past weekend damaged the siding of a Fond du Lac duplex.  "It's just a good reminder to people that trash receptacles and recycling receptacles are made of plastic and they burn,"  O'Leary told WFDL news.  "...and […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of a sprawling, taxpayer-funded probe of Joe Biden’s victory in battleground Wisconsin ignited his political career in 2008 by capitalizing on an ad that sparked ethics complaints and allegations of racism. Michael Gableman’s commercial against then-Justice Louis Butler in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court drew comparisons with the infamous Willie Horton ad from the 1988 presidential race. Gableman spent one 10-year term on […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has ordered attorneysto meet and try and resolve their dispute over whether Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos turned over all requested records related to the ongoing investigation into the 2020 presidential race. Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn on Tuesday again repeated her concerns that some of the records requested by the liberal watchdog group American Oversight might have been destroyed. Vos’ attorney says […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new juvenile prison would be built near Milwaukee under a bipartisan bill that would authorize borrowing $42 million for the project. The measure comes after years of delays in closing the embattled Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake juvenile prisons north of Wausau in Irma. The state missed a July deadline last year to close the juvenile prisons, which have been the target of numerous lawsuits […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans have introduced a bill that would prohibit abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected. The bill is modeled after a Texas law that passed last year. The legislation would prohibit anyone from performing or attempting to perform an abortion if a fetal heartbeat is present unless the pregnant woman's life is in danger or she could suffer irreversible physical problems from the pregnancy. A […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers have hired former Raiders interim head coach Rich Bisaccia to upgrade their beleaguered special teams. Bisaccia is Green Bay's third special teams coordinator in as many seasons. The Packers had a punt and a field goal blocked in an NFC divisional playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers and had the NFL’s worst special teams during the regular season.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bipartisan group of Wisconsin business leaders is voicing support for the state’s embattled elections administrator, her staff and local election officials. Nearly two dozen prominent Wisconsin business leaders issued a letter Monday backing Meagan Wolfe even as Republicans have called for her resignation and pursued investigations into how the 2020 election was run. The Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy Coalition sent letters offering “sincere gratitude […]