There are now more than 4500 positive COVID-19 cases in Fond du Lac County. Eighty-eight new positive cases were confirmed Tuesday. There are 1,712 active cases. Meanwhile, 83 Fond du Lac County residents tested positive during last week’s drive-thru testing at the Fairgrounds.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) — Joe Biden has traveled to the hot springs town where Franklin Delano Roosevelt coped with polio to declare the U.S. is not too politically diseased to overcome its health and economic crises,. He pledged during a campaign stop on Tuesday to be a unifying force who can “restore our soul and save this country.” With one week to go before election polls close, President Donald […]
A Fond du Lac man accused of bilking customers out of more than $100,000 worth of home construction projects has been bound over for trial. Thirty six year old Adam Walsh has waived his preliminary hearing on charges of theft by contractor and bail jumping. He is accused of collecting money from customers as a contractor and failing to complete the projects. The charges carry a maximum penalty of more than 70 years in prison. He’s […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With just a week to go until Election Day and 320,000 outstanding absentee ballots in hotly contested battleground Wisconsin, the push is on to get all ballots returned. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to extend the deadline for mailed-in votes to be received and counted in Wisconsin, meaning all ballots must be received by 8 p.m. on Election Day to be counted. The court […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The World Championship Cheese Contest set for February 2021 in Madison has been postponed for a year because of the coronavirus. Contest chief judge Jim Mueller said in a release issued Tuesday that the competition in Madison has been rescheduled to March 2022 in order to protect the welfare of the judges, industry volunteers and attendees. The Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association plans to fill the void […]
BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin Dells man arrested on suspicion of drunken driving is facing his 12th charge for drunken driving. 51-year-old Walter Decorah made his initial appearance Tuesday in Sauk County Circuit Court. Judge Patricia Barrett set bail at $15,000 cash. Authorities say Decorah was arrested for falling asleep behind the steering wheel at a stop sign. He was charged with driving while intoxicated, operating with a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with Republicans to prevent Wisconsin from counting mailed ballots that are received after Election Day. In a 5-3 order, the justices on Monday refused to reinstate a lower court order that called for mailed ballots to be counted if they are received up to six days after the election. A federal appeals court had already put that order on hold. The three […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin has reached a disturbing milestone as the coronavirus pandemic continues to surge unchecked across the state. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported 2,883 newly confirmed cases on Monday, bringing the total number of cases in the state since the pandemic began in March to 201,049. Agency officials tweeted that it took seven-and-a-half months to reach 100,000 cases and only 36 days to double that […]
A key element of Wisconsin’s plan to help contain the coronavirus pandemic is proving to be difficult. Contact tracers have become overrun. Wisconsin saw an average of 3,400 daily cases reported in the last week. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller issued a Health Alert Friday due to very high COVID-19 activity levels. Some Wisconsin counties are no longer able to reach out to an infected person’s contacts, […]