MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a white Milwaukee man to a decade in prison for throwing acid in a Latino man's face in a 2019 racist attack. A jury convicted Clifton Blackwell last month of first-degree reckless injury with a dangerous weapon as a hate crime. Blackwell was waiting for a bus when he told Mahud Villalaz that his truck was parked illegally in the bus stop […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Milwaukee Brewers pitcher J.C. Mejía has been suspended for 80 games following a positive test for a performance-enhancing substance. He's the second Brewers player disciplined this season under Major League Baseball’s drug program. A 25-year-old right-hander acquired from Cleveland in November, Mejía had a 23.14 ERA during a pair of relief appearances for the Brewers. He had a 0.84 ERA in nine games with Triple-A Nashville. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes highlights his middle class upbringing in his first television ad in the hotly contested race. Two of his primary challengers, Alex Lasry and Sarah Godlewsk, have already spent millions on spots and polls show a tightening race. The first ad from Barnes, the lieutenant governor, landed Wednesday. The winner of the Aug. 9 primary in the battleground state will […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Former four-term Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is questioning the hiring of a law school dean from California to run the flagship University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, saying he hoped she does not bring a “California philosophy” with her. Thompson, a Republican, finished a 21-month stint at UW System president this spring. He said that he was surprised that the UW Board of Regents hired Jennifer Mnookin to serve […]
The Fond du Lac County Board is taking up a resolution memorializing the late Fond du Lac County executive Allen Buechel. Buechel died in March from a heart attack. He was 74. Interim county executive Erin Gerred says the resolution memorializes Buechel for his faithful service to the citizens of the county. Gerred says perhaps Buechel's strongest quality was his ability to keep politics out of county government. "He came […]
Laconia High School in Rosendale has been named in the U.S. News and World Report's Best High Schools in the Nation report. The high school is among the top forty percent of schools in the nation for the third consecutive year. High School principal, Diane Raue, says in addition, the report names Laconia High School as the number one high school in Fond du Lac County. Raue says Laconia High School […]
The Rosendale Brandon School District has announced two administrative hirings. Cody Moon has been hired as Laconia High School assistant principal and activities director. Heidi Owens has been named principal of Rosendale-Brandon elementary schools. Owens will also serve as the district summer school director.
The Fond du Lac County District Attorney says he is pleased a Fond du Lac jury has found a Waupun man guilty of murdering his grandmother. The jury this week found Gregory Spittel guilty of second degree reckless homicide in the August 2019 beating death of 75 year old Carol Foreman. District Attorney Eric Toney says the jury didn't buy Spittel's argument the 'cartel' killed Foreman. "He (Spittel) had indicated the cartel […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin is trying to stay out of the bitter political fight over her hire. Mnookin addressed Wisconsin reporters for the first time via Zoom from her office at UCLA's law school on Tuesday. Asked repeatedly for her reaction to Republican critics painting her as a liberal and GOP threats to restrict UW's funding if she remains chancellor, she said only […]