Doctors are trialling in hundreds of patients the world's first personalized mRNA vaccine for melanoma, as experts hailed its game changing potential to permanently cure cancer. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says melanoma affects about 132,000 people a year globally and is the biggest skin cancer killer. Experts are testing new vaccines that are custom-built for each patient and tell their body to hunt down cancer […]
A Fond du Lac St. Mary's Springs Academy junior who is legally blind has been crowned "United States of America's (USOA) Teen 2024." Havah Fleisner was nine years old when she was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a rare genetic eye disease that attacks the part of the retina needed for sharp, central vision. Havah's mother, Tracy Welak, says initially doctors didn't give her daughter, and two younger children who also have the disease, […]
“A Night at the Theatre” is the theme for the Fond du Lac Symphonic Band’s second Buttermilk Festival concert on Wednesday, July 10. The performance will begin at 7:15 p.m. at the Wifler Performance Center in Buttermilk Creek Park, under the direction of Music Director Evan Chancellor. The program will feature vocalist Jess Schrage singing I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables and Non So Piu from the opera “The Marriage […]
Hello Waupun! I've had a couple issues that have bubbled up from the community regarding dogs and chickens. First dogs. A couple weeks ago Waupun had an incident of a dog that left its owner's property and attacked a dog that was being walked. The dog that was being walked suffered injuries and needed vet care. This is unacceptable, and the owner of the attacking dog was ticketed, and paid […]
Two people were seriously injured in separate motorcycle crashes in Dodge County over the weekend. Shortly after 3pm Saturday a 45 year old Brandon man was transported to a hospital with serious head injuries when he failed to negotiate a curve and was ejected from the motorcycle. He was not wearing a helmet. About an hour and a half later a 19 year old Beaver Dam man was flown by helicopter to a hospital […]
A Fond du Lac man is in custody following a high speed chase that ended in Washington County. The chase started shortly before 10:30 pm Friday when a sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop a vehicle that ran a stop sign on Highway B near Interstate 41. The vehicle fled south at a high rate of speed and eventually crashed in a ditch near Slinger. A passenger tried to flee on foot but was […]
MANAWA, Wis. (AP) — People living downriver of a Wisconsin dam that was breached by floodwaters have been allowed back into their homes following an evacuation order and many of them now face the mess of cleaning up flooded basements, police said Saturday. The dam in Manawa along the Little Wolf River was breached Friday afternoon by rain-driven floodwaters that eroded an estimated 50-foot-wide (15.2-meter-wide) portion of the dam, said Manawa […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court is changing course and will allow officials to place ballot drop boxes around their communities in this fall's elections in the presidential swing state. The court ruled in 2022 that absentee ballot drop boxes could be used only in election offices and no one other than the voter could return a ballot in-person. Liberal justices gained control of the court last year, […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court says Republican legislators are improperly blocking conservation projects. The 6-1 ruling Friday marks a victory for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and environmentalists. Evers maintains that the GOP-run Joint Finance Committee has too much power to kill funding for initiatives. That includes University of Wisconsin employee raises and conservation work. Evers sued, arguing the committee's actions violate the separation of powers doctrine. The […]