MADISON, Wis. (AP) — About 2,000 people have gathered outside the Wisconsin state Capitol to protest a right-to-work bill. Capitol Police issued the crowd count estimate Tuesday. The rally was organized to coincide with a Senate Labor Committee public hearing on the issue. Union members gathered to urge rejection of the measure. It would make it a crime for a business to negotiate a contract with unions that requires workers […]
An assistant special education teacher at Horace Mann High School in North Fond du Lac has been charged with sexually assaulting a special education student. Forty five year old Dominic Carmona, Oshkosh, is charged with seven counts of sexual assault of a student by school staff. He is being held in the Fond du lac County Jail on $30,000 cash bail. Each count carries a maximum sentence of six years […]
A Fond du lac man convicted in a citywide car vandalism spree has been placed on probation. At a plea and sentencing hearing Monday Fond du lac Judge Richard Nuss withheld sentence and placed 20 year old Zacharias Manthey on four years probation. Manthey was convicted in a vandalism spree that damaged nearly 60 vehicles in Fond du Lac. Plea and sentencing hearings are scheduled for two other Fond du […]
Nobody was injured when a car crashed into a Fond du Lac apartment complex over the weekend. Police say a 21 year old Fond du Lac man was east on Division Street early Saturday morning when he attempted to turn left onto University Drive. He struck the support beams of a balcony at the Weather Vane apartments and the balcony fell on top of the vehicle. The driver was arrested […]
The planning for 2015 Fond du Lac street construction projects is underway. Public Works Director Jordan Skiff says there are four proposed street projects for this year. The streets are W. Division Street (Brooke Street to Macy Street), Walker Street (W. Twelfth Street to Military Road), Cedar Street (W. Twelfth Street to W. Ninth Street), and W. Eleventh Street as an Unimproved Street from Farewell Avenue to the west dead […]
The chairman of the Assembly Education Committee says he hopes to have a revised school accountability bill ready for debate in about a month. Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac says the plan will take a back seat over the next couple of weeks to right to work legislation. Thiesfeldt says he’s reworking his proposal to still includes sanctions for failing public schools, but forcing them to […]
An on-campus student housing project at UW Fond du Lac will not be ready in time for the start of next school year as originally planned. UW Fond du Lac Dean John Short says the project has been delayed at the request of the developer, Bluffstone, LLC. "Bluffstone asked for a delay because they're having delays on some of their other projects," Short told WFDL news. Last summer, Bluffstone and […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) —College students gathered in the state capitol today warned that Governor Scott Walker's budget plan will lead to fee and tuition increases in the University of Wisconsin system. The students gathered to lament Walker's plan to cut $300 million from the UW System. He also plans to continue a current tuition freeze for another two years and free the system from state oversight. The students' group predicts […]
The senate majority leader says he’s confident making Wisconsin a right to work state will help the economy and give workers more freedom to choose whether they want to pay union dues. State senator Scott Fitzgerald says debate will begin this week in the senate and could be on the governor’s desk in two weeks. "I think its a game changer. I think this really opens up the economy […]