Month: March 2022

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Federal officials have released $150,000 to reimburse law enforcement agencies that responded to an SUV that plowed through a Waukesha Christmas parade in November. U.S. Attorney Richard Frohling in Milwaukee announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice has been released the money to the state Justice Department for disbursement. The money will be used to reimburse agencies that experienced a significant financial impact from the incident […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A criminal complaint says a man accused of opening fire inside a Milwaukee precinct station told investigators he hoped officers would return fire and kill him. Darreon Parker-Bell is accused of firing his pistol three times in the District Five station last week where he had gone to inquire about his friend who had died in police custody. No one at the station was struck by gunfire. […]

As winter melts away to spring, it also marks a return to flood season.   This week is Flood Safety Awareness Week in Wisconsin.  Emergency Management spokeswoman Katie Rousonelos says flooding from melting snow or heavy rain is one of the most common and most costly natural hazards in the state.  Since 2010, more than a dozen people in the state have lost their lives during flooding.

A Fond du lac man has been sentenced to life in prison in the shooting death of another Fond du Lac man.   Twenty-six-year-old Devon Neuman was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole in 31 years for the 2017 shooting death of Logan Foster. Neuman was convicted by a jury in July of first-degree intentional homicide, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. A judge can […]

Nobody was injured in a fire in the wood shop at the Waupun junior/senior high school.  All students had been removed from the shop area when firefighters arrived shortly after 3:30pm Tuesday to find smoke coming from the dust collector outside the wood shop. Crews quickly knocked down the fire in the dust collector, and extinguished a fire still smoldering in a drum sander machine in the shop.  The fire is believed to […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-hired investigator of Wisconsin’s 2020 election says the state Legislature should “take a hard look at decertification of the 2020 presidential election,” a move that GOP leaders have said they won’t take and that nonpartisan attorneys call illegal. The release of Michael Gableman’s 136-page “interim report” Tuesday comes amid a nationwide GOP effort to reshape elections following President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. Gableman […]

A Republican lawmaker from Beaver Dam says a package of election bills passed by the Republican controlled legislature last week are about ensuring election integrity.  State representative Mark Born Republicans are to make sure that it's easy to vote but hard to cheat. "People are concerned about things that happened in the last election with ballot harvesting in the park, the way some of the absentee ballots were handled.  The nonpartisan audit […]

The Fond du Lac County Clerk has mixed reaction to a series of election bills approved  with only GOP support.   The bills would address a host of grievances that Republicans have raised about the 2020 presidential election, and are expected to be vetoed by Democratic governor Tony Evers.   Fond du Lac County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says she does support a measure that says clerks could no longer fill in missing information on […]

STANDISH, Mich. (AP) — Scientists have fanned out across the Great Lakes' frozen surfaces to learn what happens underwater during winter. U.S. and Canadian teams have visited all five lakes in recent weeks. They've drilled into the ice to take samples and gather data. Researchers have long done such field work at other times of year, assuming not much is happening in the lakes during winter. But they recently concluded […]