Month: March 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Wisconsin lawmakers are calling for Green Bay’s Democratic mayor to resign following a report on a conservative website alleging he ceded authority for running the election to a paid consultant with ties to Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg. Eric Genrich did not immediately respond to requests for comment Tuesday about the calls for him to resign . But his office issued a statement saying the claims […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — A man who pleaded no contest to fatally stabbing a retired police captain in Oshkosh has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Twenty-nine-year-old Ian Suzuki was also given ten years of extended supervision during sentencing Monday in Winnebago County. The incident happened at Suzuki’s mother’s home in February 2020 during an argument about the conditions for him to live at the residence, police said. Suzuki […]

A Milwaukee man who police say was selling drugs out of a storage unit in Beaver Dam is going to prison.   Dodge County Circuit judge Kristine Snow sentenced 26 year old Anthony Sartin to three years in prison and two years of extended supervision for Possession with intent to Deliver Cocaine.  Beaver Dam police say Sartin was living in a Beaver Dam storage unit and selling cocaine out of the unit.  He was initially placed […]

BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — The first whooping crane hatched at the International Crane Foundation in Wisconsin has died. Foundation officials say the crane, named Gee Whiz, died on Feb. 24 and was more than 38 years old. The oldest captive whooping crane was 46 years old. Gee Whiz was hatched in 1982 via artificial insemination. He was the fifth whooping crane to call the foundation home and went on to […]

There may be fewer metro areas in the U.S. in the near future and Fond du Lac is on the list. The federal government is proposing to downgrade 144 cities from the metropolitan statistical area designation including Fond  du Lac, Oshkosh and Sheboygan. Under the proposal, a metro area would have to have at least 100,000 people compared with the 50,000-person threshold that was implemented more than 70 years ago.  Envision Greater Fond […]