One person was injured and transported to the hospital with minor injuries following a t-bone collision at a Fond du Lac intersection. The crash happened shortly before 2:30pm Wednesday at the intersection of 6th Street and Park Avenue. The collision sent a car into a house on the corner of the intersection.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former director of Wisconsin’s court system who was fired by liberal state Supreme Court justices the day after they gained control of the panel has filed complaints against his replacement and the justices who voted to oust him. In complaints filed Tuesday, Randy Koschnick argues that the Milwaukee County judge appointed to replace him is not eligible to serve as director of state courts until […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ada Deer, an esteemed Native American leader from Wisconsin and the first woman to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs, has died at 88. Deer's godson Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, confirmed Wednesday that Deer had died in hospice care of natural causes on Tuesday evening. Deer was born on a Menominee reservation in Keshena, Wisconsin, in 1935. She was influential in […]
Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers made a stop at a child care center in Kewaskum Wednesday to promote his plan to address the state's worker shortage problem. The governor made a stop at the Little Folks School House. The child care facility serves 77 kids and has received more than $584,000 in Child Care Counts funding since March 2020. Earlier this month the governor called a special legislative session for September in a longshot attempt […]
U.S. House Republicans were back in southern Arizona last week for a remote congressional hearing about they call a crisis at the border created by the Biden administration. Republican Congressman Glenn Grothman chaired the Joint Subcommittee field hearing. Grothman says the Cochise County sheriff testified that the number of people booked into jail has gotten worse. Grothman says a rancher told the committee that illegal border crossings on his property have escalated. […]
U.S. suicides hit an all-time high last year. According to new government data about 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the United States, the highest number ever. Executive director of the Center for Suicide Awareness in Wisconsin Barb Bigalki says her first reaction is how can we do better. Experts caution that suicide is complicated, and that recent increases might be driven by higher rates ofdepression or limited […]
Have fun, tax your brain, do good at October 10 Scrabble Bee! Calling all sharp cookies, competitors, social animals and good-deed-doers. It's Scrabble, with a twist. Teams of up to four players will work together in two rounds - one 20 minute, and one 15 minute. For the first game, all tiles are given to the team and they make as many words as they can in 20 minutes, but to […]
The Fond du Lac County Board has rejected a resolution to use sales tax revenue to help fund three housing projects in the village of Campbellsport. County executive Sam Kaufman says the county was proposing sales tax funds in 2023 and 2024 totaling $950,000 for the projects. Kaufman says the hope was the projects would help address a housing shortage in the county. The projects included an additional 94 housing […]
The new Cardinal stadium is officially open. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Tuesday evening. Superintendent Dr. Jeff Fleig says fundraising for the stadium project is completed. Dr. Fleig says the artificial turf field is named National Exchange Bank Field due to their donation of $500,000. The new stadium is named Cardinal Stadium until 2048. Meanwhile, the District has also unveiled it's new branding initiative.