MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed more than 40 Republican authored bills, while he signed a bipartisan measure that provides funding for the construction of a new juvenile prison in Milwaukee. The vetoes spanned a wide expanse of bills passed in this election year, measures that Republicans knew were doomed to fail but that give them — and Evers — something to campaign on. Republicans don’t […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who is up for reelection in November, has vetoed a package of bills passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have made a series of changes to the battleground state’s election laws. Republicans who fast-tracked the bills don’t have the votes to override his vetoes issued Friday. The bills are part of a nationwide Republican effort to reshape elections following President […]
A Fond du Lac family, a four year old boy, and a Fond du Lac man are being recognized for their life-saving actions in three separate incidents over the past year. The Fond du Lac Fire and Rescue Department has presented the Citizen Life Safety Award to Gary Thern, the Lorenz family and King Memeyegehn. Four year old King was recognized for alerting his mom to a cooking fire in an apartment unit last October […]
No injuries were reported following a chemical leak at Milk Specialties in Fond du Lac that forced the evacuation of the plant and several homes in the surrounding neighborhood. The Fond du Lac Fire and Rescue HazMat team was called to the scene on Thompkins Street Thursday after receiving a report of a yellow fog coming out of the roof of the building. Fire Chief Pete O'Leary says personnel from Milk […]
Moraine Park Technical College will survey a random sampling of homes in the district starting Friday and the survey results could lead to a building referendum in the fall. MPTC president Bonnie Baerwald says the goal of the survey is to help the College obtain input on future business and industry needs within the district, and the growth and improvements that are required to help meet those needs. Baerwald says the survey will ask […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican-backed candidates in local school board races came out as big winners in the Milwaukee suburbs that are critical for the GOP in statewide elections, but had mixed results in other parts of battleground Wisconsin. Tuesday's school board elections in Wisconsin were among the earliest nationwide this year and are the latest sign of how politicized typically nonpartisan races for local offices are becoming across the […]
MIDDLETON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say the missing Middleton surgeon found dead in northern Wisconsin over the weekend fell from an embankment while hiking alone. The body of Dr. Kelsey Musgrove was found Sunday partially buried in a steep clay bank on the edge of a river at Potato River Falls in Iron County. Officials say it appears Musgrove ventured off the hiking path and an embankment collapsed beneath her. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin-Stout professor has decided to delay sending a survey to UW System students about their thoughts on free speech until fall after an interim chancellor resigned over the questionnaire. UW-Stout's Menard Center for the Study of Institutions and Innovation had planned to send the survey out to students systemwide Thursday. But UW-Whitewater Interim Chancellor Jim Henderson quit Monday, saying chancellors oppose the questionnaire […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has declined to order any additional searches for deleted text messages or emails on Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’s cellphone, or phones used by two of his staff members, after an expert testified about how difficult it would be to retrieve anything. The messages are being sought by the liberal watchdog group American Oversight. It filed open records requests for messages related to the taxpayer-funded […]