Police have found a car believed to be driven by the suspect in the fatal shooting at the Fox River Mall in Appleton Sunday. The car was located Monday outside a duplex in Oshkosh. The suspect, 17 year old Dezman V. Ellis, was not at the duplex. Four people there were arrested for Disorderly Conduct and Resisting.
Wisconsinites will be able to sign up online to get their coronavirus vaccinations later this month. The state is working with Microsoft to set up an online signup system. The system will launch in 10 communities on Feb. 15. The state’s plan is to use those communities as a test of the software before the system rolls out statewide. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says Fond […]
Why do people who get a COVID-19 booster shot often times have mostly short-lived side effects including fever, or a headache? People who have received the vaccine often report no side effects after the first shot, but often report symptoms after receiving the booster shot. Vice president of Pharmacy Services and Health Research with SSM Health-Wisconsin Region Mo Kharbat, says it’s the same shot and exact same dosage as the first shot, […]
The sixth annual Sturgeon Spectacular is returning to Fond du Lac in a couple of weeks. Fond du Lac Festivals director Pete Wilke says it’s hard to believe that last winter’s festival was the last major large public event in Fond du Lac before the coronavirus pandemic hit about a month later. Wilke says this year’s event will be different focusing on safety and following public health health guidelines. Wilke says […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — More than 37,000 absentee ballots were counted from Wisconsin voters who returned an application form ahead of the November presidential election. The mailing sent in September was a compromise by the politically divided state elections commission. Democrats wanted to send the mailing to all registered voters, whether they had requested an absentee ballot or not. Republicans on the commission ultimately prevailed in sending the mailing only […]
A Fond du Lac city councilmember is asking that the chairperson of the Fond du Lac Ethics Board recuse himself from a formal hearing after he signed the nomination papers of a council candidate. At the February 5 hearing the board will hear testimony to determine whether councilmember Ben Giles violated three sections of the city’s ethics code. Last fall the board found probable cause that Giles violated the code’s sections of Dedicated Service, […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A suburban Milwaukee police chief who supervised an officer who killed three people will retire this summer. The Wauwatosa Police Department said in a statement Monday that Chief Barry Weber will retire effective June 1. Weber has been chief in Wauwatosa for 31 years. His department has come under heavy criticism since Officer Joseph Mensah shot a Black 17-year-old in February 2020 — the third person […]
SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) — Administrators at a Wisconsin middle school say they have suspended teachers who were involved in an activity for sixth graders that included a question about how the students would punish slaves. An email sent Monday to parents at Patrick Marsh Middle School in Sun Prairie apologized for a “grave error in judgment” during the social studies class. The letter said an unnamed number of teachers […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Navy has paused plans to move a beloved badger statue from Wisconsin to the East Coast for at least two years. The U.S. Naval Academy Museum loaned the statue to the state more than 30 years ago. It has sat outside the governor's state Capitol office, delighting thousands of tourists who rub its nose for luck. Last year the museum asked for the statue back […]