AAA projects 37.2 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Memorial Day holiday weekend. State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmuscz says that’s a 4.7 percent increase from the 35.5 million people who traveled last year and the highest travel volume for the holiday in 10 years. In Wisconsin nearly 781,000 people will be traveling for the holiday weekend, a 4.9 percent increase from 2014. While […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The group that has led protests against Madison police for killing an unarmed biracial man plans to demonstrate on Wednesday, a day after a prosecutor announces whether he's going to file criminal charges in the incident. Madison Police Officer Matt Kenny, who is white, shot 19-year-old Tony Robinson in an apartment house in March. Police said Robinson attacked Kenny. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne plans […]
Fond du Lac police are investigating what was reported as an unprovoked attack of two teenage boys in Fond du lac over the weekend. Assistant police chief Steve Klein say two 15 year old boys told officers they were riding their bikes home when the incident happened Saturday night in the area of Stow and McKinley Streets. "A vehicle pulled up to the stop sign and one of the […]
MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Students in Wisconsin public schools are taking a new test intended to measure learning, but the exam's future is unclear as some state lawmakers say they'd like something different. That leaves some schools and teachers wondering why they worked hard to get ready for the Badger Exam. Districts across the state spent months preparing for the new tests by ensuring computer labs and students in grades […]
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A Wausau woman is the last link in a 68-person kidney transplant chain of donations that started in Minnesota, spread across the country and ended at the University of Wisconsin. After living with renal insufficiency for 30 years, 77-year-old Mitzi Neyens says that her condition had begun to worsen in the past two years. She was included in the chain after De Pere school teacher Megan […]
“I can’t believe the years have gone this fast,” says Sue Schmid in disbelief. Schmid, a certified occupational therapy assistant and activity aide at Harbor Haven Health & Rehabilitation, is one of a large, but shrinking number of employees who have worked for Fond du Lac County for their entire career. With nearly 42 years of service, Schmid is currently one of the most tenured employees, something that caught her […]
Fire destroyed a semi truck in Horicon over the weekend. Nobody was injured.
Dodge County will host the 69th annual Alice in Dairyland Finals events in May 2016. Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) Secretary Ben Brancel made the announcement Saturday during the Finale event for the selection of the 68th Alice in Dairyland in Manitowoc County. Agriculture provides 19 percent of the jobs in Dodge County, and $2.9 billion in economic activity. That amounts to more than one-third of […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Probable presidential candidate Scott Walker is in Israel on a five-day trip paid for by the governor's political organization and the Republican Jewish Coalition. The coalition's executive director Matt Brooks tweeted a photo Sunday of Walker in Jerusalem and near the Western Wall wearing a yarmulke, the traditional Jewish head covering for males. The Republican governor plans to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and talk […]