The Fond du Lac Advisory Park Board has signed off on a plan to extend a recreation trail along the Lakeside Park Lighthouse peninsula. The paved trail along the lake currently ends just before the parking lot. Advisory Park Board member John Papenheim says the plan preserves 30 parking spaces along the north side of the peninsula. A handful of trees on the peninsula, including a large locust treet will have […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — All of the $2.3 million stolen from the Wisconsin Republican Party by hackers just before the 2020 presidential election has been recovered, including nearly $600,000 obtained by the FBI and given back to the party last month. State party chairman Mark Jefferson says Tuesday that the investigation into the theft continues. A spokesman for the FBI in Milwaukee did not immediately return a message seeking comment. […]
The executive director of the government watchdog group Common Cause in Wisconsin says a proposal by some Republicans to have all ballots be hand-counted on election day would be a mistake. Republicans approved a resolution requiring hand-counting of ballots at their state convention over the weekend. Six states have already introduced legislation to require hand-counting ballots. Common Cause in Wisconsin director Jay Heck says hand counting ballots would mean the final results would […]
President Joe Biden is seeking to calm concerns about recent cases of monkeypox that have been identified in Europe and the United States. He says he does not see the need to institute strict quarantine measures. Biden says he does not think monkeypox rises to the level of concern that existed with COVID-19. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says while the fear of an outbreak is undestandable, monkeypox is unlikely […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man has been found guilty of fatally shooting a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband, who were the parents of his girlfriend, and leaving their bodies at the school’s arboretum. Jurors in Dane County on Monday convicted 20-year-old Khari Sanford of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide for the March 2020 shooting deaths of Dr. Beth Potter and Robin Carre. Testimony and the criminal […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office says an argument may have proceeded a shooting that injured a Fond du Lac woman over the weekend. Sheriff's captain Bill Tadych says an 18 year old Fond du Lac woman was treated and released from a hospital after she was shot in the leg Sunday night outside a residence in the area of Cemetery Road and Lakeshore Drive. Detectives recovered five shell casings in the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the 10 Republicans who attempted to cast Electoral College ballots for Donald Trump even though he lost Wisconsin is running to become chairman of the state elections commission where he currently serves as a member. Bob Spindell has been an outspoken member of the bipartisan commission and supporter of the investigation into the 2020 election being led by a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice. […]
The Fond du Lac School District superintendent says he has no reservations whatsoever in hiring a former assistant superintendent in the Wauwatosa School District to be the next principal at Waters Elementary School. The Fond du Lac School Board voted unanimously to hire Kristin Bowers at their meeting Monday evening. Bowers resigned in Wauwatosa earlier this year for promoting a contract with a company her husband worked for. A Wauwatosa Police investigation determined […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Video game workers at a division of game publisher Activision Blizzard have voted to unionize, creating the first labor union at a large U.S. video game company. A count of ballots on Monday revealed the results of the election affecting a small group of Wisconsin-based quality assurance testers at Activision Blizzard’s Raven Software, which develops the popular Call of Duty game franchise. The tally was 19-3. The […]