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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers have suspended a vote on funding for University of Wisconsin campuses, just hours after a top GOP leader promised to slash the college system’s budget as part of an ongoing fight over diversity and inclusion initiatives. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the state’s top Republican, said Tuesday that he wants to cut all spending on diversity initiatives in the university's budget, generating a wave of […]

SSM Health Greater Fond du Lac is giving $10,000 to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fond du Lac County to support its Bigs and Littles program.   Big Brothers Big Sisters is a  non-profit agency that matches children with adults who help by simply being a special friend.   Big Brothers Big Sisters executive director Tammy Young says children who have a mentor are less likely to begin using illegal drugs or alcohol, […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Two attorneys from North Carolina have pleaded guilty in federal court in Wisconsin to charges they created a sham political action committee. The U.S. Attorney's office in Milwaukee announced Monday that Jack Daly and Nathanael Pendley pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail fraud and lying to the Federal Election Commission. According to court documents, the attorneys formed a political action committee they said was designed to […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's top elections official is nearing the end of her term, and uncertainty looms over who will hold the position through the 2024 presidential election. Meagan Wolfe is the current, nonpartisan administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Republicans who control the state Legislature could have a chance to ouster her and pick someone new to oversee elections in the critical battleground state. But Wolfe could also […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s craft brewers, large retailers and other producers, wholesalers and retailers are getting behind a rapidly moving proposal that would overhaul the state’s alcohol laws and lead to stricter enforcement efforts. The measure has been hammered out in secret the past five years largely between Republican lawmakers and the multi-billion dollar alcohol industry. It is moving quickly through the GOP-controlled Legislature. It was introduced on Friday […]

Come to the historic Peniel Welsh Chapel on Saturday, June 24, at 6pm for a delightful hour of familiar hymns featuring bell ringers from the Covenant United Methodist Church in Fond du Lac, accompanied by piano and directed by Thomas White. There will also be a reed organ with congregational singing. The event will be followed by an ice cream social. A free will offering will be taken. Take highway […]

The  father and son team of Joe and Joseph Robl, both of Oshkosh, Wis., are the winners of the 45th annual Mercury National Walleye Tournament on Lake Winnebago June 10-11.   The event brought nearly 600 anglers to compete for a prize package that includes a LUND 1875 Impact XS multi‑species fishing boat equipped with a Mercury 150hp Pro XS outboard, a 9.9hp ProKicker and a MotorGuide trolling motor; a complementing […]

Investigators believe a shooting outside a Fond du Lac gas station may have been a gang-related retaliation for a fatal shooting at a Fond du Lac apartment complex.    Ninteen year old Lamarion Moore and  16 year old Adamite Willey made their initial court appearances Monday on charges of  Attempted First Degree Intentional Homicide in connection with a shooting May 23rd outside the East Pioneer Road Pit Stop gas station.    A preliminary hearing […]

Juneteenth , an annual commemoration of the end of slavery following the Civil War, has been celebrated by African Americans since the late 1800s.  But it wasn't until 2021, when president Biden signed legislation that made Juneteenth , which falls on June 19th, a federal holiday.   Daisy Fraizer with Ebony Vision in Fond du Lac says Juneteenth began  about two months after confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered, and a union general […]