MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin's largest business lobby is opposing a bill to ban research on tissue from aborted fetuses, saying it would impede medical research. The president of Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Kurt Bauer says his group appreciates that backers of the bill narrowed its scope this week, but opposes it nonetheless. The WMC's position further clouds the future of the legislation, which key Republicans hope to pass this fall. […]
One person has died and another suffered life-threatening injuries in a one vehicle crash in Dodge County Thursday night. On September 10, 2015 at 7:11pm, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office responded to a single vehicle crash on Morningside Rd east of CTH R in the Township of Lebanon, Dodge County, Wisconsin. Preliminary investigation shows that Robert L. Buske (21 years old, from rural Watertown, WI) was operating a Ford pickup […]
The Fond du Lac city manager has released a proposed five year Capital Improvement Plan. The nearly $90 million plan includes spending a low of $15.3 million in 2016 to a high of nearly $19 million in 2017. City manager Joe Moore says some of the more significant projects for next year include more than $580,000 to complete bike paths at Lakeside Park and Camelot Drive and over a half […]
A Fond du Lac man involved in an armed domestic standoff last fall has been convicted. Thirty two year old James Walsh pleaded no contest to operating a firearm while intoxicated and disorderly conduct. Charges of recklessly endangering safety and battery were dismissed. Judge Dale English ordered a three year withheld prison sentence and five months in the county jail. Last October Fond du lac County Sheriff’s deputies responded after […]
A trial date has been set for a third person charged in the heroin overdose death of a Fond du lac County man two years ago. Alonzo Cornelius of Milwaukee is charged with first degree reckless homicide-delivery of drugs and manufacture-delivery of heroin as a repeater. A trial date has been scheduled for October 5th. Cornelius is the third person charged in the heroin overdose death of town of Springvale […]
An Oshkosh man accused of sexually assaulting four children when he lived in Ripon in the 1990s has posted bond. Christopher Ziemer was released from jail last month after posting $50,000 cash bond. His bail had been reduced from $500,000. A trial is scheduled for October 6th. Ziemer is charged with multiple counts of repeated sexual assault of a child. All of the alleged victims are now adults.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorney General Brad Schimel says legislators' communications with constituents should be public. Schimel made the remarks at a WisPolitics.com luncheon Thursday in Madison after host Jeff Mayers asked him several times whether he believed the identity of people asking lawmakers to do things for them should be open. Republicans inserted language in the state budget in July that would have made everything state and local government […]
EUREKA, Ill. (AP) — Scott Walker promises to tackle union power at the federal level just like he did as governor in Wisconsin. He says in a presidential campaign speech that he wants to "wreak havoc" on Washington. Walker effectively ended collective bargaining for most state workers. The governor spoke Thursday at Eureka College in Illinois, the alma mater of President Ronald Reagan. Walker says that starting his first day […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration has approved plans by 16 states to help give all students -- regardless of race, ethnicity or economic background -- access to the best teachers. The Education Department says some states are boosting education preparation programs, while others are providing more mentoring for new teachers. All 50 states submitted plans as a requirement of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law. In the […]