The American Legion, Salute the Troops and Walgreens are offering free flu shots for Fond du Lac County veterans. The free flu vaccines will be available Sunday from 10am to 3pm at the American Legion on Fond du lac Avenue. The event is free for veterans of all branches of military service. Proof of status is required.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke say turnout will be the key to victory in Tuesday's election. It looks like they'll get it. According to state election officials, voters had cast 240,308 absentee ballots by mail or in person as of Friday morning with 22,462 ballots still outstanding. That compares with 230,744 absentee ballots in the November 2010 election which saw Walker defeat […]
WESTON, Wis. (AP) — Governor Scott Walker says the latest attack ad by his Democratic challenger Mary Burke shows she is desperate as the election nears and a poll shows her trailing by 7 points. Burke's ad accused a former Trek Bicycles executive of lying when he said Burke was fired by her family's business. The ad highlights a swastika the person had posted on his Facebook page.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Late ads in Wisconsin's race for governor focus on Democrat Mary Burke's departure from her family's company, Trek Bicycles. Burke disputed a claim this week from Trek's former co-president, Tom Albers, that she was fired in 1993 as head of overseas operations because the company was losing money. The Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce is overhauling an ad attacking Burke's performance as state Commerce secretary to include […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Justice has appealed an order to release videos of training seminars Republican attorney general Brad Schimel gave for prosecutors to Democrats. Democrats believe Schimel made inappropriate remarks at five DOJ-run training seminars since 2009. Schimel has denied the allegations but Democrats have filed a lawsuit demanding DOJ release videos of the seminars. DOJ officials say they can't find three of the videos […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal report says the number of homeless people has declined slightly in Wisconsin. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report to Congress comes from a one-night count by local homeless advocacy agencies. Wisconsin's report says the number of homeless people declined nearly 1 percent this year compared to 2013 and dropped about 4½ percent from 2010. The State Journal reports there were 6,055 […]
A pre-sentence investigation has been scheduled for one of two Fond du Lac men convicted of participating in a business burglary spree. Anthony Buechel and James Meisner were arrested in February for burglarizing several businesses including taverns in the city of Fond du lac and Fond du lac County. Meisner pleaded no contest to one count of burglary. A deferred prosection agreement was ordered on two other counts and 25 […]
Fond du Lac congressman Tom Petri testified this week at a hearing of the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), U.S. Representative Tom Petri (R-WI) testified on behalf of Wisconsin-based paper company Appvion, Inc., to support extending the countervailing duties on lightweight thermal paper from China and Germany. Petri was joined by U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and U.S. Representatives Reid Ribble (R-WI) and Mike Turner (R-OH) at the hearing in […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election officials are predicting a little more than half of the state's voting-age population will go to the polls next week. The Government Accountability Board officials said today it expects about 2.5 million people will vote Tuesday. That's about 56.5 percent of the 4.3 million people in Wisconsin old enough to vote.