MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Just 12 days before the election, state Rep. Brett Hulsey says he is running for governor as an independent write-in candidate. Hulsey lost the Democratic primary to Mary Burke, earning 16 percent of the vote. Hulsey announced Thursday that he was mounting a last-minute write-in campaign, but if it appears the effort is helping Republican Gov. Scott Walker, he will stop. The most recent Marquette University […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court has unanimously rejected a conservative group's request to reconsider a ruling last month tossing a lawsuit challenging an investigation into possible illegal campaign coordination. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday rejected the request from Wisconsin Club for Growth to rehear the case after a three-judge panel last month sided with investigators. The court overturned a ruling that halted the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has refused to reconsider whether the state's voter photo identification law is unconstitutional. Republicans passed the law in 2011. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the immigrant group Voces de la Frontera as well as the League of Women Voters challenged the mandate in separate lawsuits. The state Supreme Court concluded in July that the law is constitutional […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hunters are killing Wisconsin wolves so quickly this year it looks like the state's third annual season is headed for an early end. The four-and-a-half month-long season began on Oct. 15 with a statewide kill limit of 150 animals. As of Thursday morning, hunters had harvested 103 wolves, or nearly 70 percent of the quota. DNR Large Carnivore Specialist Dave MacFarland says hunters didn't reach the […]
(New York, NY, October 23, 2014) – The nomination of Mike Shannon, president of Holiday Automotive, a Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Ford, GMC and Mazda dealer in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, for the 2015 TIME Dealer of the Year award was announced today by TIME. Shannon is one of a select group of 55 dealer nominees from across the country who will be honored at the 98th annual National Automobile […]
The Downtown Fond du Lac Partnership will be hosting a weekly indoor market beginning November 1 through May. The indoor market is located at 90 S. Main Street (formerly the Antique Mall). The market will be open every Saturday from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Shoppers will see several familiar faces from the summer market including Produce with a Purpose, Cup O’Joes delicious coffee, John and Tracy Salter’s beef and poultry, the […]
It didn’t take a Fond du Lac jury long to convict two Milwaukee men in a retail theft case this week. Silas Hampton and Vance Burnside were on trial accused of stealing nearly $900 worth of merchandise from Walmart in Fond du Lac. District attorney Eric Toney says the trial proceeded even though both defendants failed to show up in court. "I've never had that happen before and in talking […]
Fond du lac police have referred burglary charges to the District Attorney’s Office against a former Waupun police Lieutenant. Police have referred charges against Brad Young for burglaries at nine businesses in 2010 and 2011. The charges are expected to be consolidated with burglary charges Young faces in Green Lake County. Young was arrested in August of 2013 following a muti-county crime spree.
The Fond du lac community development director says relocating the Marian University School of Nursing and new office space at the AC Nielson building will bring hundreds of new people to the downtown. The Fond du Lac city council last night voted in favor of a resolution authorizing up to $255,000 to cover a potential funding gap for the project. Marian has an option to purchase the property at 30 […]