Month: October 2024

Major League Baseball announced Tuesday it will produce and distribute local broadcasts for the Cleveland Guardians, Milwaukee Brewers and Minnesota Twins next year. All three teams had contracts with Diamond Sports Group that expired at the end of the regular season.  The Texas Rangers, whose deal also expired last month, also announced they will no longer be partnering with Diamond and are assessing their options for next season.  The addition of the Guardians, […]

FOND DU LAC – The community is invited to celebrate the Holy Family Warming Shelter’s new renovations when it hosts its Grand Unveiling on Thursday, October 24.   As temperatures rose this summer, the Holy Family Warming Shelter was already setting its sights on winter, namely, getting the facility ready for the upcoming season. When the shelter first opened in 2023, staff, volunteers, and construction crews had only two months to […]

CAMP DOUGLAS –Wisconsin’s Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, known as Wisconsin Task Force 1(WI-TF1), recently returned from their first major out-of-state deployment. Sixteen members were sent to North Carolina for assistance following Hurricane Helene.  “The journey to North Carolina was a little rough as we were travelling during the tail end of the hurricane,” said Doug Vrechek, the rescue team manager for the deployment. “We couldn’t get to our destination […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (Oct. 8, 2024) — The American Red Cross continues to work to restock critically needed blood products uncollected due to the ongoing impact of Hurricane Helene’s devastation in the Southeast. Donors outside of affected areas are encouraged to make an appointment to give now and help keep the blood supply stable in the weeks to come.   Since making landfall, the storm and its aftermath have led to […]

Fond du Lac, Wisc.: Moraine Park Technical College (MPTC) is proud to announce that the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has reaffirmed the institution’s accreditation through the 2033-34 academic year. This significant achievement underscores MPTC’s dedication to providing high-quality education, maintaining rigorous academic standards, and continuously improving to ensure that graduates are well-prepared to excel in their careers.   Accreditation by HLC is a mark of excellence that assures students, employers, and […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS is expanding its program that allows people to file their taxes directly with the agency for free.  The federal tax collector’s Direct File program, which allows taxpayers to calculate and submit their returns to the government directly without using commercial tax preparation software, will be open to more than 30 million people in 24 states in the 2025 filing season.  The program was rolled out as a pilot […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election clerks referred 30 instances of suspected fraud and voting irregularities to prosecutors over the last year, according to a new report.  The nation's multilayered election processes provide many safeguards that keep voter fraud generally detectable and rare, according to current and former election administrators for the Democratic and Republican parties. America's elections also are decentralized into thousands of independent voting jurisdictions — Wisconsin, alone, has […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A federal judge has denied Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul's request to review the Milwaukee Archdiocese's sealed bankruptcy records as part of his investigation into clergy sex abuse.  U.S. District Judge G. Michael Halfenger denied Kaul's request on Monday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Thursday. Halfenger called the scope of Kaul's request “staggering” even before considering what it would take to provide abuse survivors notice of the request.  He added […]

MADISON, Wis. – A United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) rule requiring newly applied cattle and bison official ID tags to have both a visual and electronic component will go into effect on November 5, 2024. Currently, the only official tags that meet these requirements are 840 RFID tags.  This requirement applies to official identification placed for any reason, including interstate movement, brucellosis vaccination, and tuberculosis testing. Cattle tagged with visual-only […]