Dodge County Highway officials are urging drivers to pay attention and slow down this construction season. This week is national Work Zone Awareness Week. Dodge County Highway commissioner Brian Field says work zones include any time in which there are flashing lights, signs, barrels or workers on the road. According to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation over the past five years there have been more than 11,500 crashes in Wisconsin work zones […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Microsoft has agreed to buy a $50 million parcel of land in southeastern Wisconsin meant for Foxconn after the world’s largest electronics manufacturer failed to fulfill grandiose promises to build a massive facility that would employ thousands of workers. Microsoft plans to build a $1 billion data center on the 315-acre parcel in Mount Pleasant, a village in Racine County about 30 miles south of Milwaukee. […]
The Fond du Lac city council is under new leadership. At the council's organizational meeting Tuesday night Keith Heisler was elected council president. Heisler replaces Patrick Mullen in the leadership role. The council elected Tiffany Brault as council vice president. Brault, Mullen and Heisler were all re-elected after running unopposed in the April 4th election.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Bucks and Memphis Grizzlies aren’t saying whether their star players will be available Wednesday night as both teams try to avoid falling into 0-2 holes before hitting the road in their respective first-round series. Milwaukee’s Giannis Antetokounmpo and Memphis’ Ja Morant both exited their series openers Sunday after getting hurt on drives to the basket, with Antetokounmpo bruising his lower back and Morant aggravating an already […]
Following a lengthy investigation an arrest has been made in connection with intentionally set wildfires in Fond du Lac County dating back nearly two decades. Using fire forensic science, covert surveillance and multiple interviews investigators identified a 40 year old Eden man as a suspect. The suspect admitted to setting several fires, burning more than 60 acres of land dating back for nearly 20 years. Charges of Arson and Intentionally Setting Fire to land […]
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Fox and Dominion Voting Systems reached a settlement Tuesday in the voting machine company’s defamation lawsuit, averting a trial in a case that exposed how the top-rated network chased viewers by promoting lies about the 2020 presidential election. Dominion Voting Systems said the settlement was for $787.5 million. “The truth matters. Lies have consequences,” said Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson in a news conference outside the courthouse […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's state archaeologist is dead after a training dive in Madison. Rescuers pulled 63-year-old James Skibo from Lake Mendota on Friday morning. Wisconsin Historical Society Director and CEO Christian Overland said Skibo was with two other divers training for the upcoming season. The Dane County Medical Examiner's Office says the cause of death is still under investigation. Skibo was named state archaeologist in 2021. He recovered […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A judge has found a man accused of opening fire inside a Milwaukee police precinct station not criminally responsible. Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge David Feiss found 24-year-old Darreon Parker-Bell not criminally responsible by reason of mental disease or defect Monday on four counts of recklessly endangering safety with use of a dangerous weapon. Three doctors who examined Parker-Bell since the February 2022 incident determined Parker-Bell suffered […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly gave final approval to a bill designating carjacking as a criminal offense and creating harsher penalties for people who use a weapon to steal a vehicle. Its passage in the Legislature on Tuesday sends the bill to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who has said he supports the measure. The Senate passed it last month on a bipartisan 23-8 vote. Evers earlier this month […]