Month: February 2016

St. Agnes Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED) has earned designation as a Level III Trauma Care facility by the State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS).   “St. Agnes Hospital has a long tradition of providing excellent care to trauma patients,” says Nathan Larsen, MD, medical director of the hospital’s emergency department. “By achieving the Level III designation, and meeting or exceeding these statewide standards, we are formalizing our commitment to […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that has destroyed the Wayside Tavern in Fond du Lac.    Division Chief of Fire Prevention Troy Haase says firefighters were called to the scene on West Division Street shortly after 4:30am Wednesday.  "The fire is out, we have crews working trying to get into the hot spots.  The building is collapsed down onto the first floor,"  Haase told WFDL news.  Haase says the apartments above the […]

A Fond du lac judge says a Fond du Lac woman convicted of killing her husband can have contact with her sister before she is sentenced in May.  Judge Gary Sharpe ruled Tuesday that Eve Nance will be allowed verbal contact with her sister Tina Ewell as long as they don’t discuss the case.  Nance was  found guilty last month of first degree intentional homicide in the shooting death of her husband Timothy […]

A Fond du Lac judge has rejected a motion to dismiss a case against an over the road trucker from Kenosha  charged in the murder of a Sturdevant teenager.  Dennis Brantner is scheduled to go on trial this summer in the July 1990 murder of Berit Beck.  Police say Beck stopped at the Fond du lac Forest Mall while enroute to a work seminar in Appleton when she was kidnapped in the parking […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Home sales in Wisconsin are off to a fast start this year.  Sales of existing homes and the median sale price both increased 10 percent in January.  The Wisconsin Realtors Association figures show there about 3,660 closings last month and the median price climbed to nearly $149,000 compared to December.  Winter is typically the slowest time for home sales in Wisconsin. But, association chairman K.C. Maurer tells […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The candidate knocked out of the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court is endorsing Court of Appeals Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg. Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Joe Donald announced the endorsement Tuesday. Donald says Kloppenburg shares his "commitment to equal justice under the law, to an independent judiciary and to ensuring the Supreme Court is the people's court."  Kloppenburg says Donald raised some critically important […]

A spokesperson for the Alzheimer’s Association of Greater Wisconsin says a package of bills approved by the state Assembly is great news for alzheimers’ patients and their families.  Alzheimer Association Development Director, Sarah Seeger, says  the bills will help people cope with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia.    "We at the Alzheimer's Association could not be more excited,"  Seeger told WFDL news.  The 10 bill package includes  proposals to spend $50,000 for virtual dementia tours,  in which […]

The Fond du  Lac County executive says a bill that would expand property rights would reverse steps that have been taken to improve water quality on Lake Winnebago.  The state Assembly has approved a bill that would prohibit counties from imposing development moratoriums and bar counties from regulating repairs on structures in shoreland setback areas.  Fond du Lac County executive Al Buechel says the county will review its shoreland zoning ordinance if the governor […]

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — Winter is usually a great time for eagle viewing in southwestern Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota, as the birds congregate on the open water and food sources along the Mississippi River.  But not this year, when warmer temperatures and scattered snowfall has given the birds more far-flung options. A naturalist instructor at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minnesota, tells the La Crosse Tribune that the […]