MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker wants to cut 446 jobs, slash funding for public broadcasting and eliminate a college review board to help close the state's $2 billion deficit. In his budget address Tuesday the governor said he wants to eliminate 200 vacant positions along with hundreds more in the Department of Natural Resources, Department of Corrections and other agencies. Walker said he also hopes to eliminate $2 […]
BEAVER DAM, Wis. (AP) — The woman who agreed to leave a McDonald's restaurant in Beaver Dam after a customer complained about the kangaroo she carried says she owns four additional kangaroos and a menagerie of other animals. Diana Moyer lives on a farm near Columbus and has a collection of animals, including sheep, goats, emu, deer, horses and chickens. Police asked Moyer to leave McDonald's last week after she […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Property taxes would drop slightly for the typical homeowner under Gov. Scott Walker's state budget. Walker's plan released Tuesday would result in a property tax cut of $5 this year and $5 next year on the owner of a $151,000 median-valued home. Walker campaigned last year on the promise that he would continue cutting property taxes just as he did during his first term. Walker had […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker wants to eliminate the enrollment cap on Wisconsin's private-school voucher program. Walker released his plan for expanding the program in his state budget on Tuesday. Currently, enrollment in the program outside of Milwaukee and Racine is capped at 1,000 students. Walker would remove the lid, but limit new enrollments only to students coming from public schools. Money to pay for the voucher would […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker's budget would cut state general fund spending in the first year but raise it in the second to help plug a projected shortfall. The budget he delivered to the Legislature on Tuesday would cut state spending less than half a percentage point in the first year. It would go up 6.7 percent the second year. There is no across-the-board cut to state government. […]
Wisconsin tax officials are taking steps to protect your identity and your refund this tax season. Department of Revenue spokeswoman Stephanie Marquis says the department’s identity verification program to help guard against fraud is being used for the second year in a row. Marquis says tax returns are selected for review based soley on analytics where various factors indicate the possibility of identity fraud. When this happens the department will […]
Fond du Lac police are investigating the possibility that several business burglaries reported over the last week may be related. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says burglaries were reported over the weekend at the Salvation Army Thrift Store, Gremmer and Associates, MidWest Dental Care and an attempted burglary at Preferred Chiropractic. "We are looking to see if these are possibly connected to a couple burglaries we had about a week […]
A Lowell woman is facing charges for allegedly embezzling over 17 thousand dollars when she worked as the office manager for a Dodge County Cemetery. 35 year old Katie Norton is charged with two counts of theft of a business setting of over 10 thousand dollars. She made her initial Dodge County Circuit Court appearance Monday. Norton is accused of taking the money when she worked at Highland Memory Gardens […]
A West Bend woman has been convicted of striking and critically injuring a pedestrian with a vehicle in Beaver Dam and fleeing the scene in January 2014. 22 year old Stephanie Goltz entered the no contest plea Monday in Dodge County Circuit Court to a charge of hit and run involving great bodily harm. A charge of knowingly operating while revoked causing great bodily harm was dismissed and read into the […]