After a rainy June and high humidity to start the month of July, the National Weather Service says this week is shaping up to be great weather wise. Meteorologist Paul Collar says below normal temperatures with no rain are in the forecast for the rest of the week. Collar says after one of the highest rainfall totals on record in June…precipitation so far this month is down slightly…but still on pace to be […]
The Fond du Lac school superintendent says he can’t give a timeline, but is still confident the money will be raised to help fund a new $1.1 million entrance to Fond du lac High School’s Fruth football field. Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert made the comments a couple weeks after Fond du Lac school board member Mark jurgella said he wanted the board to set a fundraising deadline. The district borrowed more than $400,000 from […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The list of people who have unclaimed property in Wisconsin has multiplied six-fold in less than a year. The backlog stands at about 7,300 claims as of the beginning of June, compared to 1,200 last July. The news follows last year's decision by lawmakers to transfer the program to the state Department of Revenue as part of the state budget, taking it away from state Treasurer […]
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Democratic challenger Rob Zerban raised just over $100,000 last quarter as he tries to defeat Rep. Paul Ryan for the seat representing southeastern Wisconsin. Zerban ran against Ryan in 2012 and lost, 55 percent to 43 percent. The 12-point margin of victory was the narrowest of Ryan's eight election wins. But Ryan, coming off a high-profile run as vice president, has an especially huge cash advantage […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Low-interest loans will be available to individuals and businesses that suffered damaged following a string of tornadoes and heavy storms that hit the Grant County area last month. Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday that the U.S. Small Business Administration approved his request for a disaster declaration covering Grant County and the contiguous counties of Crawford, Iowa, Lafayette, and Richland. Under the disaster declaration, loans up to […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court says state law requires repeat drunken drivers to spend at least three years behind bars. Monroe County Circuit Judge J. David Rice sentenced Clayton Williams of Warrens to three years in prison and three years of extended supervision in 2011 for seventh-offense drunken driving. Rice said the sentencing statutes for seventh, eighth and ninth offenses are murky but he felt they required […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected Wisconsin's initial bid to join Indiana in seeking a full-court hearing on the two states' bans on gay marriage. But the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday that Wisconsin could file its own request. Dana Brueck, a spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Justice, says she expects the department would file separately to have all 10 judges on the appeals […]
A nine year old and a four year old that took a car for a joyride in Washington County last month are in trouble again... for taking another car for a joyride and putting it in the ditch. On Sunday morning, the Washington County Sheriff's Department received a 911 call regarding a car traveling in the wrong lane of traffic on Neward Drive near Indian Lore Road in the Town […]
Fond du lac firefighters helped remove a bee hive and an estimated 100,000 bees from a tree in the yard of a Fond du lac home last week. Fire Department Lieutenant and beekeeper Todd Shippee was contacted and removed the hive on Hawthorne Drive last Thursday. Fond du Lac police blocked off the area during the removal process. Shippee says the phenomenon is common when one bee hive gets too crowded. After the […]