Month: January 2024

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged an 18-year-old Wisconsin woman with killing a family's chihuahua while she was babysitting. The woman was charged Monday in Waukesha County with a felony count of animal mistreatment using a dangerous weapon. Authorities said they received a call from the Sussex family on Friday evening that they had found their chihuahua, named Batman, dead. Batman had suffered a possible stab wound and had […]

The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says the announced closing of two hospitals and 19 clinics in western Wisconsin is alarming.  Hospital Sisters Health System and Prevea Health announced last week that hospitals in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls will close in April.  All 19 Prevea Health Clinics in western Wisconsin will also close their doors.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says she wonders how the remaining […]

A Fond du Lac Good Samaritan is stepping up to help a Fond du Lac family who was displaced after a fire significantly damaged their home last week.  Nobody was injured in the fire last Tuesday at 390 Tompkins Street.  Amy Hunkins says the family, including seven children are staying at a motel until either their home is repaired or they find a new place to live.   Hunkins posted on Facebook that […]

Stephanie Welch, LPN, Urology, has been named as a DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses winner at the SSM Health Fond du Lac Regional Clinic.  The DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses® is part of The DAISY Foundation’s mission to recognize the extraordinary, compassionate nursing care they provide patients and families every day.     The DAISY Foundation is a not-for-profit organization, established in memory of J. Patrick Barnes by members of his family. […]

The Fond du Lac School District is excited to host the 2024 City-Wide Spelling Bee, a highly anticipated event showcasing students' exceptional spelling abilities from schools in the Fond du Lac community. The competition is open to all schools, regardless of their affiliation with the Fond du Lac School District. Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024 Time: 7pm Location: Theisen Middle School Auditorium Open to all schools, the competition will bring […]

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge will hold a hearing in April to determine whether the second of two women who nearly stabbed their sixth-grade classmate to death in 2014 to please online horror character Slender Man should be released from a psychiatric hospital.  Morgan Geyser, 21, asked Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren on Jan. 16 to grant her conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. Geyser made a similar […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips wants the Wisconsin Supreme Court to order that he be put on the primary ballot in the battleground state after he was excluded by the state's top Democrats who only put President Joe Biden's name on the ballot.  Phillips asked the state's highest court to take his case on Friday. On Monday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court gave the committee that put […]

Getting through winter healthy means trying to protect yourself from respiratory viruses.  January can be the worst month for these illnesses.  When relatives, friends and co-workers are coming down with coughs, nasal congestion, fatigue and fever, keeping viruses at bay means taking steps to protect yourself.  Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says perhaps the most important thing you can do is thoroughly washing your hands.  "Hand washing reduces the spread […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans have sent a bill that would force state wildlife managers to set a firm cap on the state's wolf population to Gov. Tony Evers. The Assembly approved the bill on a voice vote Thursday. The Senate passed it in October. The bill comes after the state Department of Natural Resources adopted a new wolf management plan in October that didn't include a hard cap. […]