More than half of the cats removed from a Campbellsport area trailer home last month have been euthanized. Fond du Lac animal shelter Manager Renee Webb tells WFDL news 25 of the 39 cats removed from the residence have been put down. Webb says the 14 surving cats and a dog continue to recover at the shelter. Meanwhile charges against the owner have been referred to the District Attorney’s office. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new analysis by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction estimates how much money schools across the state could lose under Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget. Walker is proposing that K-12 public school spending be held flat. But it would also eliminate a special aid payment of $150 per student statewide, or $127 million. The School Administrators Alliance on Thursday posted a breakdown by the state […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin exports reached an all-time high in 2014, up 1.4 percent from the previous year. Gov. Scott Walker announced the latest figures on Thursday. He says Wisconsin businesses exported nearly $23.5 billion in good worldwide last year, up by more than 18 percent from four years ago. Walker's office released the numbers while he is in London for a trade mission. Walker says the export growth […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly has approved a bill that would allow grocery stores to hand out sample mini-shots of liquor. The bipartisan measure would allow retailers with liquor licenses to provide customers with one half-ounce of booze, the equivalent of a third of a shot. They already can legally offer beer and wine samples. The bill's co-author, Republican Rep. Joel Kleefisch of Oconomowoc, says the measure would […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill that would outlaw using GPS to track someone without their consent. Rep. Adam Neylon's bill would make placing a GPS device on another person's vehicle without consent or collecting information from a GPS device that has been placed without consent a misdemeanor punishable by up to nine months in jail and $10,000 in fines. The bill creates exceptions for […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans have unveiled a new bill to restrict John Doe investigations after prosecutors used the process to go after GOP Gov. Scott Walker. John Does are the Wisconsin equivalent of grand jury investigations where information is gathered in secret and tightly controlled. Since Walker took office in 2011, prosecutors in Milwaukee and the Government Accountability Board have used the process to investigate Walker's aides when […]
An international sailing competition is being held in eastern Wisconsin on a frozen Lake Winnebago. The World Ice and Snow Sailing Championships bring ice and snow sailing enthusiasts from 11 countries to compete in three disciplines: kites, wings and sails. The group's president Will Tuthill says the amateur event is the longest running international racing event in the history of windsurfing, hand-held sails and kites. It's the third time the […]
An arrest warrant has been issued for a Sheboygan man charged with vandalizing a veteran’s memorial in Brandon. Fifty two year old Joseph Ross is charged with criminal damage to a memorial that honors the dead. The warrant was issued this week after Ross failed to appear in Fond du lac County Circuit Court for a motion hearing. Brandon police chief Tom Dornbrook says Ross was arrested in December […]
The Fond du Lac County parks director says a new fish cleaning station will be a welcome improvement at Columbia Park…just north of Fond du Lac on Lake Winnebago. The Fond du Lac County board has authorized the county to apply for a DNR grant to pay for half of the $90,000 project. Parks director Sam Tobias says the facility will be a 10 by 20 foot open air shelter. […]