The U.S. has approved the first vaccine for RSV, shots to protect older adults. The respiratory virus filled hospitals with wheezing babies last fall but also endangers seniors. After decades of failure in developing an RSV vaccine, the Food and Drug Administration decision Wednesday makes GSK’s shot the first of several in the pipeline to be licensed. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says its been 60 […]
Wisconsin Republican congressman Glenn Grothman says he believes congress will act to raise or suspend the nation's borrowing authority to avoid a default on it's debt. Grothman says he is encouraged that president Biden has invited congressional leaders, including House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to the White House May 9th to try to ease the debt limit standoff. McCarthy and GOP lawmakers are demanding spending cuts in return for lifting the government's […]
Envision Greater Fond du Lac is hoping to launch a business incubator program at the UWO-Fond du Lac campus. Envision president Sadie Vander Velde told WFDL news Envision is working with the Small Business Development Center and UWO Fond du Lac to repurpose some classroom space in a campus building for the program. Vander Velde says if the county board gives the okay she hopes Envision can move on campus later […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers promises to veto a wide-ranging Republican plan to bolster aid to local governments, saying the measure moving rapidly through the GOP-controlled Legislature doesn’t give enough money to communities struggling to pay for police, fire and other services. Republican authors of the bill said at a hearing Thursday they remained open to making changes, with Sen. Mary Felzkowski downplaying Evers’ veto threat as […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Ghana national has pleaded not guilty in federal court to stealing about $2.4 million from the Wisconsin Republican Party in a wire fraud scheme. The Wisconsin State Journal reports that Paul Williams Anti was charged in February with embezzlement. He entered the plea Wednesday in Madison. According to prosecutors, scammers manipulated state GOP employees' email accounts in October 202 to divert funds meant for vendors […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys for a Republican prosecutor are urging a judge to toss out a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin state's 174-year-old abortion ban. The ban was voided for almost 50 years after the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion nationwide. When the high court struck down Roe v. Wade last year, the ban reactivated. The state attorney general filed a lawsuit in June arguing that a Wisconsin law […]
Nearly 80 employees of a global manufacturing company based in Fond du lac are being laid off. Elkay Interior Systems has sent a lettter to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development announcing it will be permanently closing its West Rolling Meadows Drive location in Fond du Lac. Seventy-seven employees will be permanently laid off "no later than October 6 and beginning as early as June 30," according to the letter. The affected […]
JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — A former University of Wisconsin football player was sentenced Wednesday to two consecutive life sentences for the 2020 killings of two women, although his sentence gives him a chance to eventually seek early release. A jury convicted Marcus Randle El in January of two counts of first degree homicide and other charges in the February 2020 shooting deaths of 27-year-old Brittany McAdory and 30-year-old Seairaha Winchester in […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are working on a bill that would allow state regulators to enforce federal price transparency regulations on hospitals. State Sen. Mary Felzkowski and Rep. Robert Brooks began circulating the measure for co-sponsors on Wednesday. The legislation would require Wisconsin hospitals to post online standard costs for at least 300 services that can be scheduled in advance. Violators would face state Department of Health Services […]