Month: September 2024

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), along with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP), local health departments, and federal partners, are working to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to eggs from a Wisconsin farm. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 65 people in nine states have become infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella. This includes 42 people who live in […]

Hello Waupun! You're invited to join in for a really cool ribbon cutting on October 5, for both the new Food Truck Alley but also the City of Sculpture, Sculpture Tour! In the fall of 2023, the Waupun Common Council was asked to consider participation in a program that would increase public art displays across the City. Jeni Maly, the owner of ImagineThat! Art Studio, and an art teacher with […]

A second defendant has been convicted in the fentanyl overdose death of a Ripon man. Joseph Schmidt-Rehbein has pled no contest to First Degree Reckless Homicide for his role in the April 2023 overdose death. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for December 20. Co-defendant Maison Springston pled guilty last month , and three others are also charged in the case.

SAO PAULO (AP) — A nine-hour flight to Brazil and some time practicing under the sun in Sao Paulo seem to have softened the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Packers ahead of their season opener on Friday.  Numerous players and coaches made comments before the trip suggesting they were unenthusiastic, concerned or downright grumpy about participating in the first NFL game in South America. But on Thursday, excitement drowned out […]

A Sheboygan man is going to prison for threatening a judge. Alfred Lee Hudson was sentenced to one year in prison and three years extended supervision. Hudson earlier was convicted of one count of Threat to an Officer of the Court after leaving a threatening voicemail message for a judge. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney served as a special prosecutor in the case.

WESTBY, Wisconsin (AP) — President Joe Biden has traveled to rural southwest Wisconsin to champion new investments in electrification and expanded high-speed internet. He proclaimed Thursday that “all these investments mean family farms can stay in the family.” In the town of Westby, Biden announced $7.3 billion in investments for 16 cooperatives that will provide electricity for millions of families in rural areas across 23 states, with the goal of […]

A boil water advisory has been lifted in the village of St. Cloud.  The advisory was issued earlier this week after an equipment malfunction resulted in a loss of pressure in the water system.  Fond du Lac County Emergency Management director John Ross says the issue was corrected and there was  no known water contamination but the advisory was issued  as a precaution.

A convicted child sex offender is being released from custody and is residing in the Dodge County town of LeRoy.  Sheriff Dale Schmidt says Garon Leitzke is a Chapter 980 sex offender and is now living at a residence on state Highway 49 in Brownsville.  Schmidt says he objected to the location where Leitzke is being placed.  Schmidt says the Sheriff's Office will increase its presence in the area.  He adds […]

Nobody was injured in a semi fire in Fond du Lac. Shortly after 6pm Wednesday firefighters quickly extinguished the fire in a semi trailer hauling 42,000 pounds of pecans. Southbound Interstate 41 and Rolling Meadows Drive were shut down for a short period of time while crews extinguished the fire.