MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A man whose arrest last summer ignited a violent protest in downtown Madison has pleaded guilty to four misdemeanors and has been sentenced to time already spent behind bars. Twenty-nine-year-old Devonere Johnson entered the pleas Monday to resisting arrest, criminal damage to property and two counts of disorderly conduct in a plea deal with the Dane County district attorney. Johnson didn’t make a statement in court […]
HUDSON, Wis. (AP) — Two people have been arrested after a Twin Cities man was fatally stabbed and two others were injured in Hudson over the weekend. Relatives identify the man who died as 26-year-old Cain Solheim, of New Brighton, who was stabbed outside the Smilin’ Moose bar about 1 a.m. Sunday along with two other friends. Police say witnesses told them that multiple suspects got in a minivan with […]
The president of Envision Greater Fond du Lac says email correspondence between representatives of a business group and city officials indicate a business group was simply trying to convince councilmembers to vote for an alternative Lakeside Park master plan. The emails, obtained by a citizen in an open-records request and released over the weekend to the press created a firestorm on social media with some opponents of the plan accusing […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin health officials say most people will probably have to wait months to get their first COVID-19 vaccine shot. Department of Health Services Deputy Secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk says health care workers and residents of long-term care homes could get their initial shots by the end of December. She says the state expects to receive about 50,000 doses of the vaccine developed by Pfizer for […]
Two more COVID-19 deaths have been reported in Fond du Lac County. There are now 54 COVID deaths in the county. There were 225 confirmed COVID-19 cases in the county over the weekend, bringing the total number of cases to 9,163.
The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says she supports the governor’s call for more federal money to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. Governor Tony Evers is telling president Donald Trump and Wisconsin’s congressional delegation that Wisconsin needs $466 million by April to pay for vaccine distribution, testing, contact tracing, hospitals and a public health awareness campaign. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says more money is needed. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A policy research organization projects that state spending in Wisconsin will exceed revenue by about $373 million in the coming two years, without taking into account Medicaid costs and new spending requests from state agencies. The nonpartisan Wisconsin Policy Forum said in its report released Monday that it expects legislators will have to deal with the state’s largest budget shortfall since 2011 when they craft the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers have erected their own Christmas tree in the Wisconsin Capitol rotunda in defiance of Gov. Tony Evers' administration. The Department of Administration typically places a towering evergreen in the rotunda to celebrate winter holidays, but Evers decided not to do so this year because the building is closed to the public due to the coronavirus pandemic. Republican Reps. Paul Tittl and Shae Sortwell asked […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Flags in Wisconsin are being flown at half-staff Saturday to honor a nurse and fire department EMT who died from complications of COVID-19. Gov. Tony Evers an executive order to honor Kelly Raether. Flags in the state are to be flown at half-staff until sunset on Saturday. The 42-year-old Raether died on Nov. 26. Her sister, Kari Raether, said Kelly Raether was exposed to the virus in […]