The Fond du Lac County Clerk is predicting a low voter turnout in Tuesday's spring election. Lisa Freiberg says she expects to see a turnout of about 23-25 percent. Freiberg says there will probably be higher turnout in areas where there are big issues or races. Freiberg says two school board contests will feature write in candidates. In Campbellsport there are no candidates on the ballot for an open school […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican state Sen. Rob Cowles says he wants all 49 policy provisions included in Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposal removed before the two-year spending plan is debated by the Legislature. Cowles on Monday released a memo he requested from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau listing all the proposals in Walker's budget that primarily relate to policy and not the state's finances. Cowles says all of the […]
The state Department of Criminal Investigation is assisting the state Fire Marshal’s Office and Fond du Lac police in the investigation of a fire that destroyed a home this week. Firefighters were called to the scene at 20 South Lincoln Street early Monday morning. Fire chief Pete O’Leary says the cause of the fire remains under investigation. O’Leary says the occupants of the residence were not home when the fire […]
A preliminary hearing is scheduled later this month for a Kenosha man charged in the cold case slaying of a Sturdevant teenager in Fond du Lac County. Dennis Brantner is charged with first degree murder in the 1990 death of Berit Beck. A preliminary hearing for Brantner is scheduled for April 30th. Brantner is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on a million dollars cash bail.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Drought conditions are expanding across a large section of the U.S., from California to the Great Plains. The National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska says the area covered by moderate drought or worse expanded by nearly five percentage points to 36.8 percent during March. The drought monitor shows dry conditions broadened in the Midwest with 22 percent of the U.S. corn production […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Protesters are calling for the United Nations to investigate a Wisconsin police shooting because they feel the United States government can't be trusted. Members of Young, Gifted and Black and members of 19-year-old Tony Robinson's family held a news conference at Madison's courthouse on Monday to say they don't believe the Wisconsin Department of Justice's probe into Robinson's death is fair since the agency is staffed […]
The latest Wisconsin Farm Bureau marketbasket survey shows beefed up grocery prices in the state. Farm bureau spokesman Casey Langan says beef is the key ingredient to higher grocery prices in Wisconsin. Langan says the survey shows the total cost of 16 food items is $51.96 up nearly two dollars or about 3.8 percent compared to a year ago. The survey found the average price for a pound of ground […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The waist-expanding wager has been placed for the NCAA men's basketball championship as the governors of North Carolina and Wisconsin, and two of their congressmen, are putting their faith - and their food - behind their respective schools. Gov. Pat McCrory says that if Wisconsin downs Duke in the title game in Indianapolis Monday night, he'll send Gov. Scott Walker a package of barbecue, coleslaw, hushpuppies […]
The 2015 Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony will be held in Fond du Lac on Monday, May 25, 2015. The parade will start at 10:00 am on the corner of Guindon Blvd and Main Street and will proceed north to Veterans Park. A Memorial Ceremony will be held immediately afterward. The Marine Corps League in Fond du Lac is this year’s sponsoring unit. ALL parade entries must only have a […]