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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans a four-day campaign trip through major swing states after the Democrat’s debate with Republican Donald Trump. Her “New Way Forward” tour will include a new television spot, rallies, canvassing events and programs designed to target important voting groups. The period after Tuesday's debate in Philadelphia marks the start of the aggressive sprint toward the end of what has been a dramatic race. […]

MOSINEE, Wis. (AP) — Just before his first and likely only debate against Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump posted a warning on his social media site threatening to jail those “involved in unscrupulous behavior” this election, which he said would be under intense scrutiny.  “WHEN I WIN, those people that CHEATED will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences so […]

Werner Harmsen Funeral Home, of Waupun, announced today it has purchased Kratz Smedema Funeral Home, with locations in Cambria and Fox Lake.  In 1968 founder Mike Werner opened Werner Harmsen Funeral Home, as well as Werner Harmsen Furniture in downtown Waupun. Today 17 employees support the pair of family-run businesses, including partners Tyler Schulz who joined the team in 2012, Spencer Beek in 2020, and Wayne Buteyn in 1973. Werner Harmsen […]

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 […]