A COVID-19 outbreak has been reported in the Fond du Lac County Jail. Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says 17 of the 19 inmates in a dorm-style housing unit who tested positive for COVID-19 are asymptomatic. Waldschmidt says he’s unsure when the first case arrived in the dorm or how it was transmitted. He says the virus could have been spread by an asymptomatic employee, or an inmate testing positive to a COVID positive […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff says recent intake court speeding cases illustrate a misconception that young males are the ones with the lead foot. During a recent three week cycle, Fond du Lac judge Peter Grimm, said he handled an unusually high number of speeding tickets issued for 25 miles an hour or higher over the posted speed limit. The top five offenders, cited for speeding in excess of 100 miles an hour […]
A new AAA-funded crash test study shows that even slight changes in speed on the highway can have big consequences. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and Humanetics study found even slightly higher speeds were enough to increase the driver’s risk of severe injury or death. State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmusz says drivers often travel faster than posted speed limits and when officials raise limits to match travel speeds, people still go faster. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reports that more than 1 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine have been administered to more than 740,000 people in the state. Gov. Tony Evers praised the milestone Wednesday, calling it “exciting news” while also urging people to remain vigilant. The state health department says nearly 264,000 people have received both doses and 740,450 have gotten at least one. The […]
The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says she is hopeful teachers will be able to start getting COVID-19 vaccines starting next month. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says the two questions are: Will the county receive vaccine and, Will the state allow that group to begin receiving the vaccine starting the first week in March? Interim Fond du Lac School superintendent Sharon Simon says she is very […]
The year 2020 was monumental in many ways. The COVID-19 pandemic brought business closures, high unemployment, overall general fear and a proliferation of scams. Northeast Regional director for the Better Business Bureau Serving Wisconsin Susan Bach says her agency started seeing the increase soon after the pandemic started. Bach says the BBB Serving Wisconsin received more than 18,500 complaints last year, an 81-percent increase from the year before. Bach says there was an […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican lawmakers are injecting a contentious provision from their failed COVID-19 relief bill into Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' plan to upgrade the state's unemployment claim technology. Evers called a special legislative session in January to pass a bill that would hand the Department of Workforce Development $5.3 million to modernize the claims system. The upgrades are desperately needed to handle a massive influx of pandemic-related claims. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is asking Democratic Gov. Tony Evers to lower the U.S. and Wisconsin flags on state buildings in honor of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, who died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. Limbaugh has been lauded as a towering figure in conservatism and and media and has been inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame and the National […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A white candidate to be Wisconsin’s top education official has deleted her Twitter account and apologized after posting a message that she had been called a racial slur for Black people when she was 16. Deborah Kerr wrote that “my lips were bigger than most and that was the reference given to me” in response to a tweet from the host of a podcast called Race […]