A small gas leak at Waupun Memorial Hospital was quickly repaired over the weekend without having to evacuate any patients. Waupun Fire Chief B.J. DeMaa told WFDL news fire crews were called Sunday morning for a report of an alarm sounding in the boiler room at Waupun Memorial Hospital. DeMaa says patients were not in any danger and the hospital was not evacuated. Fire crews were on the scene for a couple of hours.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 32-year-old faces federal charges alleging he walked hundreds of miles from central Indiana to Wisconsin to have sex with someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. A Department of Justice statement Friday as says the person posing as a girl named "Kylee" was a sheriff's deputy working with the FBI in a sting. It says Tommy Lee Jenkins, of Whitestown, Indiana, began communicating online on Oct. […]
The state Assembly took time out of a busy schedule last week to honor law enforcement and first responders across the state. Republican state representative Mark Born honored Bob Belling from the town of Lomira as First Responder of the Year in the 39th Assembly District. Belling has been a volunteer firefighter with the Knowles Fire Department for more than 40 years, serving 26 years as Fire Chief. State representative Jeremy Thiefeldt recognized […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources officials say the Trump administration's proposed rewrite of lead contamination rules isn't good enough. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced in Green Bay on Thursday that the chances will require water systems to test lead levels at schools and child care facilities, require officials to identify areas with the worst contamination and toughen procedures for sampling tap water. Conservation groups have […]
The University of Wisconsin System regents have authorized staff to begin drafting formal language implementing a Republican-backed plan to punish students who disrupt others' free speech rights. The regents in 2017 adopted a Republican-backed policy declaring students who twice disrupt others' free speech would be suspended for at least a semester. The policy hasn't taken effect because system rules haven't been updated to include it. The regents voted during a meeting Friday […]
BELOIT, Wis. (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney is criticizing President Donald Trump's decision to pull American troops from Syria ahead of Turkish military attacks on the U.S.'s Kurdish allies. In an appearance at Beloit College Thursday night, Cheney said a key part of the nation's strength is that countries all over the world count on the U.S. Cheney called the Kurds "superb friends" who lost some 11,000 "of their […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A court-appointed observer says conditions at Wisconsin's troubled youth prison are improving. Attorney Teresa Abreau has been monitoring the prison outside Irma since January. A federal judge appointed her to the position after the state settled an American Civil Liberties lawsuit alleging conditions were so deplorable that they amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Abreau filed a report Thursday detailing a September visit to the prison. She […]
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Oshkosh police are investigating the deaths of two people. Officers were sent to a home shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday on a weapons complaint. They found the bodies of a man and woman in the residence. Police say the two knew each other and that it appears to be an isolated incident.
East Cotton Street from North Park Avenue to McKinley Street Schedule: May 2019 through September 2019 Description: The project includes reconstruction of the sanitary sewer, water main, storm sewer, street, and lighting. October 14 th to October 17 th : The paving contractor will place asphalt surface early in the week and the road will be open to traffic the day after. Traffic Impacts: East Cotton Street is closed to […]