Month: June 2022

Government advisers are recommending that some U.S. adults get a modified COVID-19 booster shot this fall — one that better matches more recent virus variants. If the Food and Drug Administration agrees, it will have to decide on the exact recipe change.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller  says the current vaccines still offer strong protection against hospitalization and death, but protection against infection dropped markedly with the omicron variant.  Pfizer […]

Republican congressman Glenn Grothman says he is pleased with the U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade.  "It was the right decision,"  Grothman told WFDL news.  "It's been a long time in coming."   But Grothman says he doesn't think the ruling  will have as big of an immediate impact as some people think, and says the long term impact will be determined by where the churches stand on it.  Grothman […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's Democratic attorney general has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the state's 173-year-old ban on abortions. Wisconsin adopted statutes in 1849 banning doctors from performing abortions unless the mother's life is in danger. The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe vs. Wade decision invalidated the ban but the court's decision this Friday to reverse Roe vs. Wade has created questions about whether the ban is in […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Three Republican gubernatorial hopefuls say they would fire prosecutors who refuse to enforce Wisconsin's 173-year-old ban on abortions. The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reversed its landmark Roe vs. Wade decision that essentially legalized abortion across the country. That move raised questions about whether the abortion ban Wisconsin adopted in 1849 is valid again. GOP candidates Rebecca Kleefisch, Kevin Nicholson and Timothy Ramthun all said during […]

Fond du Lac Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt says the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade is a positive step for America.  "I obviously have joy, I'm 100 percent pro-life, I've campaigned on these issues,"  Thiesfeldt told WFDL news.  Thiesfeldt says the constitutional right to an abortion was a mistake when it was put in place.  Legal experts say it's uncommon for constitutional rights to be eliminated or […]

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The fall of Roe v. Wade shifted the battleground over abortion to courthouses around the country, as abortion foes looked to quickly enact statewide bans and the other side sought to buy more time. The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Friday to end constitutional protections for abortion opened the gates for litigation from all sides. Much of Monday's court activity focused on “trigger laws” that were designed […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democrats looking to unseat Republican Sen. Ron Johnson are focusing their attacks on him, and not each other, as each of the eight candidates make their case to party activists at the state convention held six weeks before the primary. The Democratic Senate candidates on Sunday blasted Johnson for his attempt to deliver fake Republican Electoral College ballots, his skepticism over COVID-19 vaccines, his opposition […]

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — A sentencing date has now been set in Outagamie County Circuit Court for a man convicted of fatally shooting his grandparents in 2019. Sentencing had been put on hold after attorneys for 20-year-old Alexander Kraus said his mental health had deteriorated and that he was unable to understand the court proceedings. Kraus was earlier found guilty of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide for shooting Dennis […]

Scientists estimate that nearly 20 million lives were saved worldwide by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year.  In a study published last week, they say even more deaths could have been prevented if global targets for vaccines had been reached. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says throughout history vaccines have prevented death from a variety of diseases.  Scientists at Imperial College London used data from 185 countries to estimate […]