The Fond du Lac County Highway Department would like to inform the motoring public of bridge repairs on County Trunk Highway VV (Pioneer Road) between S. Military Road and Johnson Street (STH 23). CTH VV will be closed between Sullivan Drive and Grove Street beginning on Monday September 8th, 2014, and weather permitting will re-open about two weeks later. There will be a signed detour route directing traffic to use […]
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin school district has adopted a policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom and locker room of the gender with which they identify if it's OK with their parents and principals. The Janesville School Board adopted the policy to bar discrimination based on gender identity. Craig High School teacher Katy Hess advises the Gay-straight Alliance and says its members were very pleased by the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The gloves are coming off in Wisconsin's attorney general race. With eight weeks left before the Nov. 4 election, conservative and liberal attack groups have started scouring courtroom records for cases that they think show Republican Brad Schimel and Democrat Susan Happ are soft on crime. Schimel has served as Waukesha County's district attorney since 2006. Happ handled criminal defense before she became Jefferson County district […]
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin father has started serving a six-month jail sentence for praying over his dying daughter in 2008 instead of seeking medical help for her. Fifty-two-year-old Dale Neumann of Weston was convicted along with his wife, Leilani, of second-degree reckless homicide in the death of their 11-year-old daughter Madeline. A supervisor says that Dale Neumann arrived at jail Monday. The parents were sentenced in 2009 to six […]
Fond du lac police are investigating a shooting incident but the victim isn’t cooperating. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says nobody was injured. Klein says a man entered the Speedway gas station on West Johnson Street early Thursday morning and told the clerk someone had tried to shoot him. "Officers arrived and spoke with the male subject. He was not injured," Klein said. "He stated he had been shot at […]
A Black River Falls man has been arrested in Fond du Lac for his 6th owi. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says the 46 year old man drove to Fond du Lac to pick up his wife who was being released from the Fond du Lac County Jail. "They decided to stop at one of our local establishments to celebrate and as they left, apparently, they were observed driving erratically," […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is investigating who is sending text messages demanding nude photos from a 19 year old St. Cloud woman. According to a Sheriff’s report the woman told investigators she started receiving the messages about three months ago from someone who texted he was her boyfriend. The texts stopped when the woman threatened to call police…but started again a short time later. The woman says […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An estimated 38,000 adults who had been receiving Medicaid coverage through Wisconsin's BadgerCare Plus program before being kicked off earlier this year will have more time to sign up under the federal health insurance exchange. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Thursday that it was establishing a special enrollment period for those people running through Nov. 2. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's attorney general says he will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a federal appellate ruling striking down the state's gay marriage ban. Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen's spokeswoman, Dana Brueck, said in an email to The Associated Press that Van Hollen has always believed the case will be decided in the that court. U.S. District Judge Barbra Crabb struck down the ban as […]