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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state board that oversees for-profit colleges says hundreds of students who enrolled at four Wisconsin schools can get some of their loans forgiven.  The U.S. Justice Department in November reached a $95.5 million settlement with Education Management Corporation, a Pittsburgh firm that runs for-profit schools, to resolve allegations of deceptive recruiting.  The Wisconsin Education Approval Board announced Monday that 933 adult students who enrolled at […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A report from Gov. Scott Walker's administration shows overall state contracting increased during the last fiscal year.  The Department of Administration delivered a report to the Legislature's chief clerks and the Legislative Fiscal Bureau on Friday that found overall contracting increased 7.5 percent during the year that ended June 30, from $565 million to $607 million.  University of Wisconsin System contracting increased by 8.6 percent, from […]

Van Dyne area residents packed the Eldorado Town Hall Monday night  to voice their opposition to the planned placement of a convicted violent sex offender in their community.  A planned supervised release calls for Clint Rhymes to be placed at a residence on Nitschke Road in the town of Eldorado.   Residents  in attendance at the information meeting want to know why someone from Milwaukee County would be relocated here.  Town […]

Governor Scott Walker attended a Pearl Harbor Remembrance Ceremony today at the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King.  To remember those who lost their lives during this tragic event, Governor Scott Walker issued Executive Order #182 ordering the Flag of the United States and the Flag of the State of Wisconsin be flown at half-staff in observance of National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.  "On the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, […]

A Fond du Lac man who spent a long time in prison for sexual assault will remain in custody.  Following a two day trial a Fond du lac County jury found 55 year old Donald Anderson to be a sexually violent person. Anderson will be committed to the Sand Ridge Treatment Center in Mauston.  In 1994 Anderson was convicted in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court of  first degree sexual […]

TOWN OF PLYMOUTH, Wis. (AP) — A 56-year-old pedestrian has died after she was struck by a sport utility vehicle that lost control on a frost-covered road in eastern Wisconsin.  The Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department says the crash was reported just before 7 a.m. Saturday on state Highway 23 in the Town of Plymouth.  A 2002 Ford Explorer was westbound when it started to slide onto the shoulder, where the […]

KOHLER, Wis. (AP) — Talks have been resumed between the Kohler Company and the union that's been on strike for nearly three weeks in Wisconsin.  Tim Tayloe, president of Local 833 of the United Auto Workers, said in a text message Friday that the union and the company will meet again this week.  A Kohler representative confirmed  that negotiations have resumed.  Local 833 represents about 2,000 workers at Kohler's kitchen […]

Over two million consumers selected a plan in the Federally Facilitated Marketplace as of Nov. 28, 2015, including 54,346 in Wisconsin.   “Americans who need health coverage starting January 1st have just one week remaining before the December 15 enrollment deadline,” Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said. “Whether you are enrolling for the first time or an existing customer who is shopping for the best plan […]

Hundreds of needy Fond du Lac residents will have warm coats this winter thanks to the generosity of Fond du lac residents and the Salvation Army.  Salvation Army spokeswoman Connie Millard says while the official totals are not in yet, the numbers are close to if not over last year’s total of  24 hundred coats collected for distribution.   The coats will be distributed through six different agencies.