Tourists could be legally driving 70 mph on some Wisconsin highways this summer. The state Assembly on Wednesday passed the speed limit increase bill. Its chief sponsor, Rep. Paul Tittl, says the Department of Transportation expects to have new speed limit signs posted in time for the summer tourist season. Tittl says under the agreement, the state Department of Transportation would decide which roads could increase. DOT officials have […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The special prosecutor investigating alleged illegal coordination between Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's recall campaign and conservative groups had wanted at least two Supreme Court justices to step aside in the case. The secret John Doe investigation has swirled around Walker for years. The Supreme Court is set to rule on three pending cases that could halt it for good in late June — the same time […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly has passed bill to limit the types of food that food stamp users could buy, including how much of their allotment can be spent on junk food. The Assembly passed the Republican-sponsored measure on a 60-35 vote Wednesday. The bill would require food stamp recipients to use at least two-thirds of their monthly benefits to purchase nutritional foods such as beef, chicken and […]
The Fond du Lac school superintendent says he is concerned a proposed bill would encourage parents to have their child opt out of mandated tests. A bill being circulated by Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac would require schools to notify parents every year of all the standardized tests students will be given and make clear how to opt out of taking them. Thiesfeldt says there […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin state Assembly has passed a bill to ensure that scores on the statewide Badger Exam given to public school children this spring aren't used against teachers or put on report cards measuring school performance. The bill that passed with no debate Wednesday previously cleared the Senate. It now goes to Gov. Scott Walker. The Badger Exam was beset with a variety of problems that […]
James Simon, of Fond du Lac, is the grand prize winner of the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation’s Samaritan Health Clinic $150,000 Cash Raffle, being randomly drawn for the $100,000 cash prize. Tickets sales were steady all morning on the drawing’s final day, May 13. The suspense was finally relieved when the grand prize winner was announced by Drs. Alyssa Stephenson and Michael DeGere, 2015 house […]
A Fond du Lac woman involved in what initially appeared to be a minor traffic accident has died from her injuries. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says Margo Lemke was involved in a two vehicle crash at the intersection of First Street and Park Avenue April 28th. She died the following day from internal injuries. Lemke was 77. Klein says Lemke was driving on Park Avenue when a car struck […]
A Fond du Lac man arrested a year ago for running a meth lab is in custody again for the same offense. Police found materials used to make methamphetamine at a 6th Street residence on April 25th. Police described the operation as a “mini meth lab.” The same person was arrested last year for running a meth lab out of a Lincoln Avenue home.
A Wisconsin prosecutor says a white Madison police officer who shot an unarmed biracial man to death in March will not be charged because the officer used lawful deadly force. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Officer Matt Kenny had been punched in the head and feared for his life when he shot 19-year-old Tony Robinson Jr. Ozanne spent some 25 minutes laying out investigative findings in the case. […]