The Fond du Lac School Board has approved extending the school day at Fond du Lac High School by 10 minutes. Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says the move would allow school staff to concentrate on administering the ACT tests to all juniors on Tuesday, March 3, and Wednesday, March 4, while the rest of the student body gets a day and a half off of school. "The ACT, we have […]
The Fond du Lac Salvation Army's Red Kettle Campaign has surpassed its $145,000 goal. Salvation Army captain, Steven Wilson says the fund drive collected more than $152,000. Money raised during the holidays helps eligible Fond du Lac County families at or below 130% of the poverty level. Social Services Director Ron Jacobson says the food pantry doubled its service load in August providing 33,000 lbs. of food for more […]
OWEN, Wis. (AP) — A plane crash in central Wisconsin has killed one person and injured two others. Clark County Sheriff Greg Herrick says the victim was a passenger in a Cessna 182 that was trying to make an emergency landing on a road in the town of Hoard at about 9:15 a.m. Monday. Two other people in the plane suffered non-life-threatening injuries. A Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman says the […]
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — An accident on Lake Winnebago has taken another life. The Winnebago County Coroner's Office says an 8-year-old boy has died after he was pulled from the icy lake water Sunday. The child's father died shortly after their Jeep broke through the ice about 7 a.m. The victims were from Sussex. Authorities say the two were on the lake to ice fish when they broke through.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Justice says it doesn't have any records of how many hours it spent defending Wisconsin's gay marriage ban, making the full cost of fighting the case impossible to determine. A group of gay couples filed a lawsuit last year challenging the marriage ban. They ultimately won the case this past fall when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to the DOJ's request to […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the judges on the Wisconsin board that oversees elections, campaign finance and ethics laws tells the Speaker of the state Assembly that criticisms he made of the board were "just not true." Government Accountability Board Chairman Gerald Nichol sent the letter to Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos last week. The GAB released the letter publicly on Monday. A spokeswoman for Vos says he was […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she is accepting responsibility for not calling for an investigation sooner amid allegations that a Tomah VA medical center overprescribed opiates. In a column published in newspapers across the state Sunday, the Democrat says she should have listened and communicated better with the constituent who first brought the issues to her attention in March. Baldwin says she accepts responsibility for mistakes made […]
A Ripon College political science professor says all signs are pointing to an announcement that Governor Scott Walker is running for president. Walker spoke in Iowa over the weekend and plans to visit New Hampshire in March. Ripon College political science professor Marty Farrell says the fact that there is no clear frontrunner at this point among potential Republican candidates is in Walker’s favor. "He has won three elections in […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The punk rock band Dropkick Murphys is asking Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to stop playing one of their songs, saying on Twitter that "We literally hate you." Walker took the stage Saturday at the Iowa Freedom Summit to its song "I'm Shipping Up to Boston." The band then tweeted at Walker's official and personal accounts, "please stop using our music in any way...we literally hate you […]