MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau finds that Gov. Scott Walker's budget would raise taxes and fees by $48 million. The report released Monday also determines that Walker proposals to bolster tax collection would bring in nearly $125 million in additional revenue over the next two years. The bulk of the tax increase, $22 million, is Walker's proposal to delay implementation of a law […]
Fond du Lac police are looking for a suspect in a bank robbery Sunday. Police say the Guaranty Bank inside Pick N Save on West Johnson Street was robbed. Police say a black male handed the teller a note demanding money and implying he had a weapon. He fled the store on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect is described as a black male (possibly in […]
A Fond du Lac man was seriously injured and two men are in custody following a fight over the weekend. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says a 23 year old Fond du Lac man was transported to Froedert Hospital in Milwaukee after he was repeatedly kicked in the head during a fight outside the Reid Terrace apartments Friday night. Klein says a 35 year old Fond du Lac man was […]
Nobody was injured in a fire that started on an apartment balcony. Fire chief Pete O’Leary says the fire at the Courtyard apartments on Berger Parkway Sunday was started when someone discarded a cigarette into a bucket next to the side of the building. The apartment owner extinguished the fire with a fire extinguisher before it spread. O’Leary says its another example of careless use of smoking materials…in this case […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee County sheriff's deputies say a man driving the wrong way on a major highway was too drunk to take an alcohol breath test. Authorities say the driver swerved around one squad car Sunday and then pulled over after a police officer positioned his squad to stop him. Authorities say the 33-year-old Milwaukee man was too intoxicated to "maintain consciousness" for the breath test. He was arrested […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says he's looking forward to riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle across the early presidential voting state of New Hampshire. Walker made the comment after speaking at a tourism conference, noting that New Hampshire is just 65 miles wide. Walker spent the weekend in New Hampshire for his first visit since 2012. Walker is taking steps toward a likely presidential run, but has not […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A special legislative committee plans to meet this week to formally reject a contract that would give Wisconsin state troopers an average pay increase of 17 percent. The Joint Committee on Employment Relations is expected to approve separate contracts Thursday for the Wisconsin State Attorneys Association and the Wisconsin State Building Trades Negotiating Committee. But Assembly Speaker Robin Vos's spokeswoman Kit Beyer says the trooper contract […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Madison Police Chief Mike Koval is defending a white officer who killed an unarmed bi-racial man, urging people not to leap to conclusions about the incident. Officer Matt Kenny shot Tony Robinson in an apartment house on March 6. Police say Kenny was responding to 911 calls that Robinson had attacked two people and was running in traffic. The state Justice Department expects to complete an […]
A 20 year old Ripon College student has been crowned Miss Fond du Lac. McCayla Thoe receives a $30,000 scholarship to Marian University and an $8,000 scholarship to Ripon College, and will compete in the Miss Wisconsin pageant. Breanna Branson was named first-runner up during the competition that took place Saturday night at Goodrich Little Theater in Fond du Lac. Millicent Selenka was crowned Miss Outstanding Teen. Eighteen year […]