The Fond du Lac County Sheriff says his office already does a number of things proposed in a bi-partisan police reform package introduced last week. The legislation would prohibit training on the use of chokeholds, something Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says is already in his Department’s policy. Waldschmidt says his office also already makes it’s policy free and available to the public. Waldschmidt does question if the creation of a board that […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — When Donald Trump continued to falsely claim in December that massive fraud and other voting irregularities had cost him a second term, top Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature said they were reviewing thousands of complaints about the election. But an investigation shows that the majority of them were mass-generated form letters. Those letters made nonspecific claims about alleged irregularities, a right-wing fraud-finding effort and a clip […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The board in charge of decorations at the state Capitol in Madison has voted to create a committee to study the prospect of placing a statue of Wisconsin's first Black secretary of state on the building's grounds. The State Capitol and Executive Residence Board voted unanimously Monday to create a subcommittee that will work with a community task force and state officials on a proposal to […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Medical Society is opposing a Republican-authored resolution in the Legislature that would overturn the statewide mask mandate put in place by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The board of directors for the medical society voted Saturday to support continuation of the mask mandate issued by Evers and oppose the GOP resolution. The resolution overturning the mask mandate has […]
Four more Fond du Lac County residents have died from COVID-19. After several days without a death, four COVID-related deaths were reported over the weekend in Fond du Lac County. There have now been 77 COVID-19 deaths in Fond du Lac County since the start of the pandemic. There were72 new positive cases confirmed over the weekend, bringing to 11,345, the total number of confirmed cases in the county.
The number of residents getting tested at a Drive-thru site at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds remains down significantly from last fall when COVID-19 cases were spiking in the county. "Pretty consistent of what we've been noticing for traffic flow for probably the last month," Public Health Officer Kim Mueller, told WFDL news. Mueller says 222 people were tested at the site last Thursday. The testing site is open Thursdays from […]
MADISON, Wis. — More than 550 Citizen Soldiers and Airmen from the Wisconsin National Guard arrived safely back in Wisconsin Jan. 22-23 after completing their mission to support security efforts in Washington D.C. during last week’s presidential inauguration. The troops returned via bus to their home station armories around Wisconsin after approximately a week on duty supporting security efforts in the nation’s capital. The contingent of Wisconsin troops – […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin health officials are reporting an additional 42 new deaths related to COVID-19, and more than 1,600 new cases of the virus. But the state is also seeing a decline in hospitalizations, after hospitals were overwhelmed in the fall. As of Friday, the Wisconsin Hospital Association reported 785 people were hospitalized, including 178 in intensive care. The number of hospitalizations is down 489 when compared with a […]
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has modified bail conditions for an 18-year-old Illinois teen charged with fatally shooting two people during a protest in southeastern Wisconsin. Kyle Rittenhouse was 17 at the time of the Aug. 25 shooting in Kenosha. He faces multiple counts and is free on $2 million bail. A judge ruled Friday that Rittenhouse can't associate with known white supremacists. He is also barred from […]