MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's elections board has launched a $400,000 education campaign about the new photo identification requirement for voting on Nov. 4. The Government Accountability Board announced Thursday that it had launched the "Bring it to the Ballot" campaign after leaders of the Legislature's budget committee told the agency it could spend the money to proceed. GAB director Kevin Kennedy says the message of the campaign is that […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System's regents have approved a new report detailing system campuses' reserves and balances. The regents approved the report unanimously during a meeting Thursday at UW-Stevens Point. It goes next to the Legislature's finance and audit committees. The report shows the system's four-year and two-year schools, UW-Extension and system administration finished the 2013-14 fiscal year with a total of $973.3 million left over. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin state parks and properties will host nearly 20 Halloween events over the next few weeks. The festivities will get underway Saturday with a candlelight hike, pumpkin-carving and campfire entertainment at Kohler-Andrae State Park in Sheboygan. The rest of the agenda includes hikes, story-telling, campfires, haunted hay rides and more pumpkin-carving spread across a number of state properties on the remaining weekends in October. Participating properties […]
A 73 year old Brownsville area man was killed and another person received minor injuries in a two-vehicle crash in Fond du Lac County. Sheriff’s Chief deputy Mark Strand says the accident happened shortly before 7:30am at County Highways K and F in the town of Eden. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office says the victim was pinned inside the overturned vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. Strand […]
The director of a Fond du lac domestic abuse shelter says domestic violence awareness has never been greater than it is today. Solutions Center director Maggie McCollough says Wednesday night’s Light Up the Night Against Domestic Violence rally in Fond du Lac brings even greater awareness to an issue that is typically hidden. "This is really a watershed for awareness," McCollough told WFDL news. "What happened in the NFL […]
With less than a month to go before the election Governor Scott Walker was on the campaign trail in Fond du Lac County Wednesday afternoon. Walker made a stop at the John and Karen Ruedinger farm in Van Dyne touting his initiatives to help agriculture including tax breaks. Walker says he is pleased with the latest Marquette Law School poll showing him up by five points over Democrat Mary Burke. […]
With many races expected to go right down the wire…local political party leaders understand voter turnout will be key. Fond du Lac County Republican party chairman Dan Feyen says a voter registration drive his being held this week at Republican party headquarters on South Main Street. Meanwhile Feyen says U.S. Senator Ron Johnson is making a stop in Fond du lac this weekend. Johnson is scheduled to stop at Republican […]
A 19 year old suspect involved in a chase with police in Fond du Lac and Dodge Counties has pleaded not guilty to charges he faces in Dodge County . Maxwell Decker of Berlin is charged with burglary-arm self with a dangerous weapon, theft, taking and driving a vehicle without the owner’s consent, and three counts of bail jumping. The incident unfolded on a Saturday night in August when the […]
A Fond du lac man arrested in connection with a series of home invasion has pleaded no guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Lucas Leffel entered the pleas to seven counts of burglary and attempted second degree sexual assault during an arraignment hearing in Fond du lac County Circuit Court. Police Chief Bill Lamb says Leffel has admitted to entering four homes in the southeast side of town […]