Month: March 2022

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorney General Josh Kaul is partnering with the Green Bay Packers and other sponsors to provide child identification kits to every Wisconsin student. Kaul announced Monday he is partnering with the Packers, Alliant Energy, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the National Child Identification Program to provide 975,000 kits to all students in grades K-12. Parents can use the kits to fingerprint their children on […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Anti-abortion groups in Wisconsin are questioning whether Gov. Tony Evers legally awarded about $2.4 million in federal stimulus money to Planned Parenthood, a move they claimed violated a state law prohibiting the funding of abortions. The groups, represented by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, also said in a letter to Evers on Monday that the grant programs appeared to be unlawfully created and […]

Charges are being referred to the Fond du Lac County District Attorney's Office against a Fond du Lac man in connection with a fatal crash over the weekend.   The 37 year old man faces charges of homicide by negligient operation of a motor vehicle and homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle.  Two passengers,  a 41 year old Fond du Lac man and a 34 year old Fond du lac woman were killed […]

An Illinois man was seriously injured in a snowmobile crash in Dodge County.  The crash happened shortly after midnight on Sinissippi Lake in Hustisford.  According to the Dodge County Sheriff's Office the snowmobile was traveling south on the lake when it struck an embankment ejecting the rider into the backyard of a residence.  The 42 year old man was flown by helicopter to Freodert Hospital in Milwaukee with serious injuries.

This winter's mild flu season has faded to a trickle of cases in much of the United States including Wisconsin. The latest federal data show a decline in flu infections since the beginning of the year.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller for a second year in a row influenza cases in Wisconsin are much lower than normal.  But second waves of influenza are not unusual in flu seasons […]

The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders baseball team will be playing an historic game on the home field of the Appleton Timber Rattlers this season.  The Dock Spiders and Green Bay Rockers will play the inaugural I-41 Showdown at NeuroScience Field on Thursday June 9.  Dock Spiders General Manager Jim Misudek it marks the first time any Northwoods League team has played a game on a professional  minor league baseball diamond.  Tickets […]

LONDON (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will play in the NFL’s first regular-season game in Germany this year and the Green Bay Packers are traveling abroad for the first time. The league says the Bucs will host the inaugural game in Munich next season but their opponents and the date for the game have yet to be announced. The Packers and the New Orleans Saints are the designated home […]