WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin creamery cooperative is offering dairy farmers an incentive to quit an industry stung first by years of low milk prices and then by the coronavirus. A letter from the Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery board of directors to its members offers to pay their equity in the co-op from 2010 to 2019 if the farmers meet certain criteria. Cooperative spokesman Paul Bauer says the group has […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police say a University of Wisconsin physician and her husband were shot to death at the school’s arboretum near the Madison campus, and a second teenage suspect in the killings has been arrested. Eighteen-year-old Ali’jah Larrue was arrested Friday night and booked on two counts of party to the crime of first-degree intentional homicide. UW police spokesman Marc Lovicott said Sunday that Larrue is friends with […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A second person has died of injuries suffered in a crash caused by a homicide suspect fleeing from law enforcement in Milwaukee. A 23-year-old man died over the weekend after he was critically injured in a crash Friday that also caused the death of a 20-year-old woman. The 27-year-old suspect is wanted for a homicide in Minot, North Dakota. Police say he was being pursued by officers […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reports that the number of deaths attributed to the coronavirus in Wisconsin is up to 77. That is an increase of nine people from Sunday. There have now been deaths reported in 16 counties. More than half of all deaths, 40, have occurred in Milwaukee County. As of Monday, there were 2,440 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin. Dr. Ryan […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has issued an executive order to delay the state’s scheduled Tuesday presidential primary election for two months because of the coronavirus pandemic. The move on Monday injects more chaos and last-minute uncertainty amid growing criticism about the state’s harried efforts to allow for in-person voting. The Democratic Evers had previously opposed moving the election. But he acted as poll sites closed because […]
Nobody was injured and only minor damage was reported in separate structure fires Sunday afternoon in Fond du Lac County caused by controlled burns that got out of control. A town of Byron resident on Highway Y used a garden hose to extinguish a fire that spread to a garage. And a couple hours later another controlled burn spread to a small tool shed at a residence on Mill Pond Road […]
SHEBOYGAN, Wis. — The Wisconsin National Guard dispatched a team April 5 to a senior living facility in Sheboygan to establish a mobile testing site and perform COVID-19 specimen collection. Approximately 30 Citizen Soldiers and Airmen arrived early Sunday morning at the Sunny Ridge Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, where they tested facility staff and residents in support of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the Sheboygan County Division of […]
Fond du Lac County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says thousands of people who requested absentee ballots have yet to return them. "I look at the numbers out there and these ballots are not coming back," Freiberg told WFDL news. "For Fond du Lac County 17,690 ballots have sent out and only 8,500 have been returned (as of Friday)." Freiberg says more people will vote in the spring election by absentee ballot […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block extended absentee voting in Tuesday's primary. They argued in a filing Saturday that the extension by a federal judge this week is inherently unfair by creating two different deadlines for in-person and absentee voters. Wisconsin is moving ahead with in-person voting despite concerns about the public health risks of the coronavirus crisis. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers […]