MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Fees paid by everyone from nurses to boxing judges in Wisconsin will not change over the next two years. The Legislature's budget committee on Wednesday voted to keep the licensing and regulation fee schedule the same over the next two years for more than 150 professions. Democrats proposed lowering the renewal fees for audiologists and speech-language pathologists. Rep. Chris Taylor, of Madison, argued that they are […]
WAUSAU – Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) Secretary Ben Brancel announced Riley Olbrantz of Newman Catholic Elementary School: St. Anne in Wausau as the state winner in the Bonnie Plants 3rd Grade Cabbage Program on Wednesday. Olbrantz’s winning cabbage weighed in at 28.6 pounds. Last spring Bonnie Plants distributed free cabbage plants to more than 11,300 Wisconsin third grade students, who took them home to grow during […]
Photo: Trooper Trevor Casper State Justice Department statement: The Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation continues our investigation into the events that led to the tragic death of a Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper on Tuesday, March 24, 2015 in Fond du Lac. About 5:30 p.m. in Fond du Lac, Trooper Trevor Casper was following a vehicle matching the description of the one used in a bank robbery earlier in […]
Authorities have now identified the man suspected of killing a Wisconsin State Patrol trooper in Fond du Lac. The state Department of Justice names the suspect as Steven Timothy Snyder. It doesn't give his age or hometown but says his family in Michigan has been notified. Authorities say Trooper Trevor Casper died Tuesday evening in a shootout with Snyder, a bank robbery suspect who's believed to have killed another motorist […]
(AP) Authorities say a carjacking victim was killed by an armed robbery suspect accused of fatally shooting a Wisconsin state trooper. Marinette County Sheriff Jerry Sauve says the body of a man believed to be in his 60s was found Tuesday afternoon near a running pickup truck along a road east of Wausaukee. He says investigators identified the truck as the vehicle stolen earlier from State Bank of Florence in […]
A state patrol trooper is dead along with a bank robbery suspect following a shootout in Fond du Lac. The Wisconsin state Troopers Association posted on its Facebook page this morning the fallen trooper was Trevor Casper of Kiel. The incident unfolded following a robbery at Hometown Bank on Peters Avenue around 4:30pm Tuesday. Fond du Lac police chief Bill Lamb issued a brief statement late Tuesday night. "At […]
The Dodge County Sheriff say there are inconsistencies in a report by a man who said he was shot after he had stopped to help the occupants of a car parked on the side of Highway 60. Sheriff Dale Schmidt says the incident was reported Saturday on Hwy 60 between Hustisford and Hwy 26. Schmidt says the man reported two subjects in the parked vehicle demanded the his wallet […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former sheriff is telling lawmakers they need to allow off-duty and retired officers carry concealed weapons in schools. A bipartisan group of legislators has proposed a bill that would let off-duty officers and qualified retired officers to carry guns on school property. Former Walworth County Sheriff David Graves told the state Senate's judiciary committee that the bill would allow those officers to stop school shooters.
NEW LONDON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a car driver has been seriously injured in a crash with a school bus in east-central Wisconsin, but no students were hurt. The Waupaca County sheriff's office says the bus had stopped on Highway 54 to pick up a student Tuesday morning when it was rear-ended by the car. The car then went into the ditch. The driver of the car was flown […]