With no guarantee of fans, there won't be a Ryder Cup this year. The PGA of America says the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin has been pushed back to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The PGA Tour still hasn't allowed spectators at its events, and no other golf tournament is dependent on partisan cheering like the Ryder Cup. After working with the PGA Tour and its Presidents […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he plans to seek federal approval to restart a long-stalled project to expand a 3.5-mile stretch of Interstate 94 around Milwaukee. Then-Gov. Scott Walker abandoned the project in 2017, when it came with a price tag close to $1 billion. The plans were to expand the east-west corridor from four to eight lanes to ease congestion in one of the most […]
A Fond du Lac man has started a petition drive to halt a business group’s plan to develop the heart of Lakeside Park including a restaurant on the lighthouse peninsula and amphitheater and parking lot on Oven Island. Barry Cassetta says more than a thousand people have already signed the online petition in opposition to the updated park master plan. Cassetta says Lakeside Park is endangered and so are the memories […]
COLUMBUS, Wis. (AP) — A statue of Christopher Columbus that had stood for more than 30 years in his namesake Wisconsin city is coming down. The Columbus City Council voted Tuesday to put the statue in storage until another use for it is found. The fiberglass statue stands at the intersection of Highways 16-60 and 151 in Columbus, a city of 5,000 about 30 miles northeast of Madison. Christopher Columbus […]
The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says more young people continue to test positive for COVID-19 in Fond du Lac County. Eight new cases were reported Tuesday bringing to 343 the total number of confirmed cases in the county. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says many of the new cases are in the 20-29 age group. Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 deaths in Wisconsin has now topped 800, but […]
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Wildlife officials have relocated a black bear that had wandered into a St. Louis suburb and drew a crowd of hundreds curious to see the out-of-place animal. The bear has been popular on social media pages for weeks as it plodded hundreds of miles from Wisconsin, through Illinois and briefly into Iowa before wandering into Missouri. Wildlife officials say they were spurred to take action over […]
The Dodge County Sheriff says a Fond du Lac man is fortunate after he was struck by a stray bullet while playing golf. The 80 year old Fond du Lac man was treated for non life-threatening injuries after he was struck in the upper torso Monday at The Golf Club at Camelot on Highway 67 near Lomira. Sheriff Dale Schmidt says it appears the bullet came from a nearby property where a man was […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says a Milwaukee woman is fortunate after accidentally shooting herself in the leg this week. The incident happened Monday afternoon at the Fondy Aqua Sports Park. Sheriff’s captain Bill Tadych says it’s concerning that the woman brought the loaded gun inside the park where there are kids. "Yes and it (aqua park) was very packed," Tadych told WFDL news. "The good thing is that […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California, Michigan and three other states are suing the U.S. Department of Education over pandemic relief funds. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday, the attorneys general of California and Michigan say the department run by Secretary Betsy DeVos is attempting to take pandemic relief funds away from K-12 public schools and divert them to private schools. Maine, New Mexico, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia have joined […]