MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The shooting by police in Wisconsin of a Black man has sparked strong words of condemnation and a call for Republicans to take action from the state’s Democratic governor, who said he stood by those who demand justice. But Republicans and the police union said Monday that the governor went too far, urging caution in making any judgments about what sparked the shooting. The divergent reactions […]
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s governor summoned the National Guard to head off another round of violent protests after the police shooting of a Black man under murky circumstances turned Kenosha into the nation’s latest flashpoint city in a summer of racial unrest. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers says 125 members of the National Guard were called to Kenosha on Monday night with responsibility for “guarding infrastructure and making sure our […]
A $1 million signature bond has been ordered for a Fond du Lac man charged in connection with the death of a child who died six years after he struck her in the head. Twenty nine year old Thomas Abitz Junior made his initial Fond du Lac court appearance Monday on a charge of first degree reckless homicide. The victim suffered a traumatic head injury in 2011, and died in 2017. A doctor who specializes […]
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has vowed to take further action in response to the police shooting of a Black man in the southeastern Wisconsin city of Kenosha. Evers says the Sunday evening shooting, in which video appears to show an officer shoot and wound a Black man as he leaned into a car, demands action from elected officials "who have failed to recognize the racism in our […]
FOND DU LAC, WI – The Dock Spiders capped off their incredible 2020 season with a 14-3 victory over the La Crosse Loggers on Saturday night to win the Wisconsin-Illinois Northwoods League Pod Championship and secure their second title in the last three years. Returners Sam Novitske and Aaron Anderson finished the season with a combined average of .326 and came together to record a total of 64 RBI and 19 […]
A 71 year old Campbellsport man was seriously injured in a motorcycle versus car crash in Fond du Lac County Saturday. According to the Sheriff’s Office the motorcycle was attempting to pass a car on Highway B as the car was turning south onto Highway K. The motorcycle operator was flown by helicopter to Froedert Hospital in Milwaukee with serious injuries. He was wearing a helmet.
Fond du Lac police are asking for the public’s help in finding the driver of a car who struck and seriously injured a man at Lakeside Park last week. Police say a 27 year old man was flown by helicopter to ThedaCare Regional Medical Center in Neenah with head injuries after he was struck by a vehicle on Promen Drive in the area of Lighthouse Drive last Monday night. The […]
Twenty four new cases of COVID-19 were reported in Fond du Lac County Friday. That brings to 879 the total number of COVID-19 cases in the county. There are 214 active cases and ten people are hospitalized. Fond du lac County is currently in the Red category of the Safer Reopening plan and will determine Monday whether the county goes back to Phase One of the plan which would limit public gatherings […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Interim University of Wisconsin President Tommy Thompson says he has a threshold in mind for when campuses will have to shut down due to coronavirus cases, but he's not saying what it is. Thompson took questions Friday during an online Milwaukee Press Club event. Thompson says hasn’t told anyone what the threshold for shuttering a campus will be. UW students are returning to campus this month […]