The tax rate would drop under a proposed Fond du Lac city budget. Fond du Lac city manager Joe Moore gave the Fond du Lac city council a budget overview at their meeting Wednesday night. Moore says the budget does not cut any existing city services and lowers the tax rate by about 4.5 percent. Moore says a potential reduction in state shared revenue due to the coronavirus pandemic will have an […]
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — All three NBA playoff games scheduled for Wednesday have been postponed, with players around the league choosing to boycott in their strongest statement yet against racial injustice. Called off: Games between Milwaukee and Orlando, Houston and Oklahoma City and the Los Angeles Lakers and Portland. The NBA said all three games would be rescheduled, yet did not say when. The dramatic series of moves […]
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A white, 17-year-old police admirer has been arrested after the killing of two people during a third night of protests in Kenosha over the police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake. Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, was taken into custody Wednesday in Illinois on suspicion of first-degree intentional homicide. Antioch is about 15 miles from Kenosha. Two people were killed Tuesday night in an attack […]
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — The family of the man killed by Appleton police during an incident at a downtown bar three years ago has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit against the officer who fired the fatal shot. Jimmie Sanders was fatally shot by Lt. Jay Steinke at Jack’s Apple Pub on May 21, 2017, after Steinke responded to the bar for a report of a shot fired inside. Steinke […]
The local unemployment rate continues to fall. The state Department of Workforce Development says the July unemployment rate in the city of Fond du Lac was 6.6 percent, down from 9.7 percent in June. The Fond du Lac County jobless rate dropped 2.5 percent to 5.8 percent last month. In Dodge County the unemployment rate fell from 7.4 to 6.9 percent.
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say two people were killed and another was wounded during a third night of unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, following last weekend's police shooting of a Black man, Jacob Blake. Police say the shooting was reported at about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday in an area where protests took place. Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that authorities hadn't detained anyone in the shootings, […]
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo has been voted NBA Defensive Player of the Year, becoming the fifth player to win that award and MVP in a career. The Milwaukee Bucks All-Star was MVP last year and is the favorite to repeat this season. He ended the two-year reign of Utah center Rudy Gobert as Defensive Player of the Year. Antetokounmpo received 75 first-place votes from a panel […]
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — The family attorney for a Black man shot by police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says his client is paralyzed and it would “take a miracle” for him to walk again. Attorney Ben Crump spoke Tuesday alongside family members of Jacob Blake. He said the 29-year-old was in surgery after being shot on Sunday night multiple times. Another family attorney said they would be filing a civil lawsuit […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A lawsuit has been filed by a conservative law firm that seeks overturn Wisconsin’s statewide mask mandate issued by Gov. Tony Evers. The lawsuit filed by Tuesday in Polk County Circuit Court by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty on behalf of three western Wisconsin residents argues that Evers did not have the legal authority to issue the order. It took effect Aug. 1 and […]