MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic Party Chairman Mike Tate is stepping down as chairman in June after holding the position for six years. Tate emailed party members Thursday. Tate, who is 35, was one of the youngest state party leaders in the country when he first was elected for the job in 2009. He chaired the party during a tumultuous period, highlighted by the collection of more than 900,000 […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Health officials expect the latest round of flu to last another four to six weeks in Wisconsin. The flu has contributed to the deaths of two children this season. A 12-year-old Milwaukee girl died on New Year's Day. A 2-year-old boy died of Type A influenza on Christmas Day. A 26-year-old Kenosha woman, Katherine McQuestion, also died of flu complications this season. She worked as a radiology […]
TOMAH, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is launching an investigation into reports of overmedication and retaliatory management practices at the VA Medical Center in Tomah. U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin's office says the Veterans Health Administration and the Office of Accountability Review is conducting the investigation. A story by The Center for Investigative Reporting says the number of opiates prescribed at the Tomah VA more than quintupled […]
CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is telling fellow Republicans that voters are annoyed with the federal government and that solutions to the nation's ills will come from governors. In a Thursday night speech to a Republican National Committee meeting near San Diego, Walker said the states are where things get done. Walker is weighing a bid for the GOP presidential nomination and has named former RNC political […]
A Fond du Lac man has been charged in connection with the heroin overdose death of another Fond du Lac man. Twenty one year old Jeffrey Hiley is charged with first degree reckless homicide and manufacture-delivery of heroin both as a repeat offender. Hiley is accused of supplying the heroin that led to the death of Corey Lawson last May. Hiley made his initial court appearance Thursday. Bail was set […]
A former Campbellsport martial arts instructor accused of sexually assaulting one of his students has been bound over for trial. At a hearing Thursday afternoon in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court 43 year old William Schellinger pleaded not guilty to two counts of second degree sexual assault of a child and one count of repeated sexual assault of the same child. According to a criminal complaint Schellinger had sex […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State lawmakers are moving closer to outlawing 'upskirting' in Wisconsin. An Assembly committee unanimously voted Thursday to make the act a crime. Upskirting is photographing or videotaping a person's genitals, buttocks or breasts without his or her consent. It would be a Class I felony under the bill. Offenders could be sentenced to up to three and a half years behind bars. The offense is currently […]
One week after being sworn in as Wisconsin’s newest Member of Congresss, Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Campbellsport) announced today his official committee assignments for the 114th Congress. Grothman will serve on the House Budget Committee, Committee on Oversight & Government Reform, and the Education & the Workforce Committee. “I am extremely humbled by the opportunity to serve the people of Wisconsin’s 6th District through my work on these committees and I look […]
A Fond du lac high school student was seriously injured in an accident in the high school wood working shop this week. Assistant police chief Steve Thiry says two boys were fooling around near the end of the school day Wednesday when one of the boys fell and suffered a severe laceration to his head. Fond du Lac fire chief Pete O’Leary says the student was transported to the hospital.