The Fond du Lac County Clerk says while she did not receive a subpoena she did meet with former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman and members of his staff while he was investigating the 2020 election. Assembly speaker Robin Vos fired Gableman two weeks ago, and officially ended the investigation last Friday when he withdrew subpoenas sent by Gableman to mayors across the state. Fond du Lac County Clerk Lisa […]
A hearing is being held Thursday in federal court in Florida on a judge's order indicating she was inclined to appoint a special masster to review documents seized from former president Donald Trump's Florida estate last month. A legal filing this week says the Justice Department has already identified "a limited set of materials that potentially contain attorney-client privileged information." But Ripon College political scientist Marty Farrell says while the appointment of a special master […]
A retired Ripon College economist thinks California's decision to phase out the sale of new gas-powered cars will have an impact nationwide. The California Air Resources Board last week voted to require 100 percent of new cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the state to be powered by electricity or hydrogen by 2035. Economist Paul Schoofs says this policy will only accelerate the electric vehicle trend across the country. The policy doesn't […]
The Fond du Lac County Tobacco Control program coordinator says she is pleased the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned a maker of nicotine gummies to stop marketing what is an illegal product. In what is a a first of its kind warning the FDA said it considers these gummies particularly concerning because they resemble candy and can cause severe nicotine toxicity or death if young children eat them. Johanna Brotz says […]
A Fond du Lac man has been charged in the shooting death of a Fond du Lac man last month. Thirty two year old Timothy Brown made his initial court appearance Wednesday on charges of first degree intentional homicide and felon in possession of a firearm in the August 20 shooting death of 40 year old Brandon Johnson. Johnson was found dead in the 200 block of Marquette Street with […]
An elderly Campbellsport man died after his pickup truck struck a parked vehicle in the village of Campbellsport. When the crash occured Tuesday afternoon on Main Street near Elm Street the pickup overturned trapping the driver under his vehicle. The 77 year old man was pronounced dead at St. AgnesHospital in Fond du Lac.
Two children were seriously injured in a two vehicle crash in Dodge County. The 11 and 14 year old children were passengers in the vehicles involved in the rear end collision Tuesday afternoon on County Highway A at the intersection with Ollinger Road. They were transported to UW Hospital in Madison.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers is giving Wisconsin K-12 public schools $90 million more in federal COVID-19 relief money. He announced the move on Tuesday just before schools were to open for the fall. Evers says the money would help schools keep and retain teachers and ensure that the student-to-teacher ratio doesn’t increase. Districts across the state, including the two largest in Milwaukee and Madison, have reported high […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, has logged more than 10 times as many hours of security as his predecessor, an issue that Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is raising in the hotly contested race. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday that Barnes averaged more than 13½ hours of security protection a day at a daily cost to the state of $660 for patrol […]