Three people received non life-threatening injuries in a two vehicle accident in Dodge County. The crash happened shortly after 11:30am Saturday on County Highway V at the intersection with Lomira Drive in the town of Leroy. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says a preliminary investigation shows a Kenosha woman driving a car eastbound on Lomira Drive struck another car as it was passing through the intersection sending the vehicle into […]
TOWN OF BELL, Wis. (AP) — Governor Scott Walker ordered flags to be flown at half-staff for an emergency medical technician who died while trying to save his mother from a northwestern Wisconsin fire. Sixty-two-year-old Dennis Swenson went into a Town of Bell home to try to save his 95-year-old mother, Dorothy Swenson, from a fire May 1st, but both ended up dying. Walker signed an executive order, ordering the […]
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Republicans making their pitch to be the party's 2016 presidential nominee aimed to out-do each other Saturday in arguing that President Barack Obama is a failed leader. But hitting Obama with the usual critiques — from his 2010 health care overhaul to allegations of missteps on foreign policy to the rise in the national debt during his time in office — also made it hard for […]
GREENVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A five-month-old kangaroo and four baby goats have been taken from an Outagamie County zoo. A zookeeper at the Special Memories Zoo in Greenville says she noticed the five animals gone Wednesday when she was getting ready to move them from the off-site facility to the zoo. Zookeeper Gretchen Crowe says a joey needs its mother during the first year to survive. She also says the […]
The Fond du lac city council is considering a proposal that would allow Winnebago Lutheran Academy to lease a portion of a city park for school athletic fields. Under terms of the proposed 50 year lease WLA would pay for construction of three athletic fields and a parking lot at McDermott Park. WLA would have first occupancy and use rights to the fields from September through May. The city’s recreation […]
The Fond du Lac city council will consider an ordinance that would bee keeping in the city of Fond du lac at their meeting Wednesday night. City attorney Deb Hoffman told the city council last month that bee keeping is allowed in a handful of Wisconsin communities and the list appears to be growing. The city could deny a bee keeping permit if adjacent neighbors who may be allergic to […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — An owl found dead in northeastern Wisconsin is the first wild bird in the state to test positive for a bird flu strain that has swept through poultry farms in the Midwest. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the snowy owl died from the H5N2 virus, the same strain that has hit 10 farms in Wisconsin, affecting nearly 1.8 million chickens and turkeys in the state. […]
A state patrol trooper who paid the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty will be honored at a memorial ceremony in Fond du Lac next week. The City of Fond du Lac Police Department will be hosting its annual National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Ceremony on Friday, May 15. The ceremony will begin at 2:00PM and will be held at the Police/Fire Memorial at Hamilton Park. The ceremony is […]
A Republican lawmaker from Markesan has been named to the Wisconsin Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board. Assembly speaker Robin Vos announced the appointment of State representative Joan Ballweg to the post. The board created in 1983 by the legislature to develop and fund strategies that prevent child maltreatment in Wisconsin. The board makes legislative recommendations in an effort to reduce child abuse and neglect and to improve coordination among […]