After multiple days in a row of more than 100 positive COVID-19 cases in Fond du lac County there was a much lower number on Friday. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says 32 positive cases were confirmed Friday. The day before there were 275 positive cases including more than 100 cases at the Taycheeda Women’s prison. Mueller says 109 inmates tested positive for the virus and three staff members tested positive. Meanwhile, […]
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 has been bound over for trial. Twenty nine year old Thomas Abitz Junior is charged with first degree reckless homicide. The victim suffered a traumatic head injury in 2011, and died in 2017. A doctor who specializes in child abuse pediatrics says the death due to pneumonia was a […]
Fond du Lac Public Works says East Merrill Avenue between Park Avenue and Algoma Street will be closed next week. The street will be closed beginning Monday, and remain closed until Friday, November 20. The closure will be in place to allow for utility repairs and pavement restoration.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Newly released records show a white Kenosha, Wisconsin, police officer who shot a Black man in the back had been the subject of five internal investigations during his seven-year career. Rusten Sheskey was reprimanded three times for crashing his squad car on three separate occasions, and his actions in two domestic violence arrests came under scrutiny but didn't violate policy. Sheskey shot Jacob Blake in the back […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Two parents and two young people from Wisconsin have filed a federal lawsuit alleging vaping company JUUL falsely marketed its products over social media, leaving them addicted to nicotine. The plaintiffs include Michelle Bain of Kenosha, whose son Jaedon began vaping with Juul at age 16 and died by suicide a year later in 2019; Melinda Bowes and her daughter, who was 13 when she starting vaping; […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Paul Hornung, the dazzling “Golden Boy” of the Green Bay Packers whose singular ability as a runner, receiver, quarterback and kicker helped turn the team into an NFL dynasty, has died. He was 84. Hornung won the Heisman Trophy at Notre Dame, then headed to the Packers. He was the NFL MVP in 1961 and played on four championship teams. He was inducted into the Pro […]
The White House Coronavirus Task Force Report says Wisconsin continues to see an "unrelenting rise in cases and test positivity." The number of COVID cases are skyrocketing and hospital beds are filling up. According to the Wisconsin Hospital Association, there are areas of the state that have few if any ICU beds immediately available and staffing shortages are becoming a major issue. I am asking for your help. I join state health and […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin is reporting another day of jaw-dropping COVID-19 infection numbers. The state Department of Health Services reported a record 7,497 new confirmed cases on Thursday, obliterating the old record of 7,065 set on Saturday. The department says the disease was a factor in another 58 deaths, bringing the death toll to 2,515. Gov. Tony Evers said during a news conference that he plans to release a […]
The president of Fond du Lac’s St. Agnes Hospital says she is concerned about the strain on hospital bed capacity as we move into the flu season during the coronavirus pandemic. Hospital president Katherine Vergos says the hospital will have to be very creative in how bed capacity is managed to be able to accommodate both COVID and flu patients. "Now it is more important to ensure there are not large […]