Month: March 2016

The Oakfield Elementary School principal says staff is ready to step up when a fellow teacher gets the call from Froedert Hospital in Milwaukee.   Third grade teacher Jodi Schmidt is planning to donate a kidney to eight year old student Natasha Fuller.  Natasha was born with a kidney disease and doctors say she desparately needs a transplant.  School principal Becky Doyle says Schmidt’s decision to donate shows the kindness in her heart.  "She's so […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group of about two dozen students has interrupted a University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents meeting to demand the panel improve how minority students are treated.  The students stood up during a discussion on tenure changes to complain about how they believe minority students are mistreated on UW campuses. Regent President Regina Millner recessed the meeting while regents and chancellors listened to the students. […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has adopted policy changes that will weaken tenure protections.  The Republican-authored state budget stripped tenure protections from state law. The regents adopted the statutory language as policy but created a task force to recommend changes.  The task force recommended tweaking the policy so chancellors could lay off tenured faculty if their programs are cut and fire them for […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A GOP senator from Wisconsin says the Senate might consider filling a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court if the president were a Republican.  Sen. Ron Johnson made the comments Thursday.   Johnson has been united with other Senate Republicans in opposing moving forward with any nominee from Democratic President Barack Obama to replace Antonin Scalia, who died last month.   Johnson was asked how things would […]

The Fond du Lac Elks Club has its charter back.  Exhalted ruler Joe Leventhal says he was notified Thursday that the Elks Grand Lodge has rescinded its suspension of the Fond du Lac Lodge.  "We provided them a full slate of officers they were looking for and a guaranteed number of members they were looking for so we were given our charter back,"  Leventhal told WFDL news.  The suspension was handed down last […]

A Fond du Lac  funeral home is getting attention for a billboard campaign designed to send a message to teenagers.  Zacheral Funeral Home's billboards are meant to address drug overdose deaths, suicides and traffic fatalities involving young people.  Funeral Home director Pete Zacheral says three billboards have been placed in Fond du Lac and a fourth is located along Highway 41.  One of them shows a hearse with a message about heroin, while […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has sent additional investigators to Wisconsin to find the source of a blood infection officials describe as the largest outbreak of the bacteria now linked to 15 deaths and 26 illnesses.  Infectious disease specialists expected additional cases of the infection to be found because health care providers and laboratories have been alerted to look for the bacterium, called Elizabethkingia. […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new report shows Wisconsin lagging behind the national average in job creation.  The data out Wednesday from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics shows Wisconsin added more than 29,000 private-sector jobs in the period from September 2014 to September 2015.   That was a 1.2 percent increase, good for only 36th out of 50 states. The national rate was 2.2 percent. Wisconsin's showing is about […]

Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue says it will begin implementing the use of what’s called the Lucas Chest Compression System.  Assistant Fire Chief Todd Janquardt says the LUCAS is a safe and efficient tool that standardizes chest compressions in accordance with the latest scientific guidelines.  Janquardt says by doing this, it frees up rescuers to focus on other life-saving tasks and creates new rescue opportunities.  In order to be able to save the lives of […]