LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (AP) — The National Weather Service confirms a tornado caused damage in the Lake Geneva area. Weather service staff surveyed the damage caused by Tuesday night's severe weather in Walworth County and determined a EF1 twister touched down. The severe weather damaged a number of buildings in a small industrial park in the Town of Lyons. The tornado left a trail of tree damage north of Lake […]
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A plan to return excess revenue from a 15-year sales tax to renovate and maintain Lambeau Field could be a windfall for Brown County's cities, villages and towns. An estimated $17.6 million could be left over after the county's half-percent stadium sales tax ends on Sept. 30. Republican state Rep. David Steffen of Howard wants to return most of that money to individual municipalities and […]
Wisconsin Republican congressman Glenn Grothman is one of more than 20 Republicans on a powerful House committee calling for the ouster of the IRS commissioner. The letter asks president Obama to remove IRS commissioner John Koskinen, saying he’s obstructed congressional invstigations into the treatment of conservative groups. "It seems fairly obvious that he is hiding things, he has not been entirely honest with the committee," Grothman said. The chairman of […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Justice has moved to dismiss a lawsuit filed over a state legislative district map, claiming the 2011 lines were drawn to the advantage of Republicans. The lawsuit filed by a group of Democrats asks that the map's boundaries be thrown out, calling it "one of the worst gerrymanders in modern American history." DOJ attorneys moved Tuesday to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing […]
The Upward Bound Math and Science (UBMS) program at Marian University recently hosted its third summer college prep session for local high school students. “The UBMS program really helped me to get ahead in my high school classes,” said Bailey Darling, a third year participant of UBMS and senior at Fond du Lac high school. “I’m passionate about science, and this program has helped me find out what college I’d […]
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin sheriff says a police dog assigned to the PGA Championship at Whistling Straits had been left in his partner's car for 47 minutes before being found dead. The K-9 named Wix and his handler, Brown County Deputy Austin Lemberger, were assisting with security at the tournament Aug. 13. Brown County Sheriff John Gossage says Lemberger took the 3-year-old Belgian Malinois for a short walk, […]
Fond du Lac County officials hope to hire a new developer soon for a UW-Fond du Lac student housing project. A second Request for Proposals was issued after the developer, Bluffstone, said they were unable to proceed. UW Fond du Lac Dean John Short says a number of proposals are being reviewed. "We are in the process of pre-qualifying the finalists. We expect to have three companies with partners to […]
Bail has been set at $10,000 cash for a Milwaukee teenager involved in a chase that ended in a crash on busy East Johnson Street in July. Sixteen year old Matthew Hinkle made his initial Fond du lac Court appearance Tuesday, charged as an adult with fleeing an officer and hit and run. Police say Hinkle was involved in a car jacking in Milwaukee, drove the stolen car to Fond […]
The village of North Fond du Lac has a new fire chief. Village Administrator, Chuck Hornung, says Richard Zmuda comes to North Fond du Lac from Bradford, Pennsylvania. Hornung says Zmuda was selected out of a field of 16 applicants. He is scheduled to start Monday, August 24th.