A Rosendale Man has claimed the Badger 5 Jackpot. Bryan Bard of Rosendale is the lucky winner of the $81,000 jackpot from the Saturday, April 30 Badger 5 drawing. Bard purchased his ticket at Hansen's BP on West Johnson Street in Fond du Lac. Bard’s ticket matched the winning numbers of 3, 13, 16, 20 and 23.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is singing praises to Ted Cruz, who's now dropped out of the raises after losing the Indiana GOP primary. Trump last night called Cruz "one hell of a competitor." Although John Kasich still remains in the race, Trump is all but certain to lead the Republican Party into the fall presidential campaign. Meanwhile it was a narrow victory for Democrat Bernie Sanders […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump will collect at least 45 delegates for his victory in Indiana, putting him on a solid path to clinch the nomination and avoid a contested convention. There are still 12 delegates left to be allocated. Trump needs to win just 43 percent of the remaining delegates to capture the nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7. He has won a majority of […]
A spokesman for Mercury Marine says Merc’s parent company is doing everything it can to protect employees’ financial information following an email fishing incident. Merc spokesman Lee Gordon says the incident reported Friday by Brunswick Corporation resulted in the potential unauthorized disclosure of 2015 W-2 information of a large number of current and former employees, including Merc employees. Gordon says no one hacked into the Brunswick system, nor was there an intrusion of the system, but […]
The Fond du lac County Public Health Officer admits she is surprised that investigators have still not been able to find the source of a bloodstream infection that has sickened dozens of people and been linked to a number of deaths in southeast Wisconsin. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says she is also concerned about the conflicting information that has been released. Mueller says there has to be a common thread between the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin health officials are defending their investigation of a blood infection discovered in the state. The Division of Public Health responded Tuesday to Assembly Democrats who questioned last week why state health officials delayed telling people that Elizabethkingia was spreading in the state. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services began investigating the outbreak in December. The agency told hospitals to be on the lookout for infections […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Children's Hospital of Wisconsin says lab tests show that a child diagnosed with Elizabethkingia is not connected to the strain that has caused an outbreak of the bloodstream infection in Wisconsin. Children's spokesman Andrew Brodzeller says the genetic markers in the child's case are unique. Brodzeller says the hospital has effectively treated patients with Elizabethkingia with antibiotics, but would not comment specifically on the child's case. The […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — One of the two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to kill a classmate to appease a fictional horror character called Slender Man is appealing a judge's decision that keeps her in a secure facility. A petition filed with the Court of Appeals says the decision against allowing the 13-year-old girl to live with her grandparents under strict monitoring amounts to excessive bail because she is no […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says the agency is saddened by the death of an employee's wife in an apparently random drive-by shooting on a Wisconsin interstate. DEA spokesman Leo Hawkins says Tracy Czaczkowski was a loving wife and mother to two young children. The Dane County Sheriff's Office says investigators believe 20-year-old Zachary Hays shot Czaczkowski on Sunday as she and her […]