This year’s annual “Light Up the Night Against Domestic Violence” program has been scheduled at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 8 at the Goodrich Little Theatre. Light Up the Night is held as part of National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, which is October. Tiffany Wiese, Agnesian HealthCare Domestic Violence Program coordinator, and Maggie McCullough, Solutions Center Shelter & Support Services executive director, will lead a brief program. The […]
Moraine Park Technical College is pleased to welcome Katie Koestner, a leader in the movement to end sexual violence, as a guest speaker at Moraine Park’s Fond du Lac campus on Monday, Oct. 6, at 2:00 p.m. The event will be held in Room A-112 and is free to the public. Koestner, a national expert on student safety and wellness issues, was the first survivor of date rape to speak […]
The North Fond du Lac High School Homecoming parade is Friday, October 3, 2014 at 4:00 PM. The route is the same as years past. The entire route will be closed to traffic during the parade. Motorists are encouraged to use alternate travel routes during this time. The parade will line up in the High School parking lot. From there, the parade will travel east on McKinley Street to Minnesota […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Medical College of Wisconsin has received a $2.5 million federal grant for genetics research. The center will use the four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to analyze the genes of patients with undiagnosed diseases. It will work with genetics company Illumina to sequence the genomes of 1,650 patients and their families. The research will examine whether it is better to search for diagnostic clues […]
CDC recommends that everyone 6 months and older receive influenza vaccine every year. Vaccine is here and the Fond du Lac County Health Department will be offering influenza vaccine (injectable and flu-mist) for $30.00 per dose. Medicare Part B, Medicare Advantage Plan and Medicaid will be accepted if an accurate number is provided. Receipts for cash will be issued upon request and may be submitted to other insurances for possible […]
Fire caused minor smoke damage to a restaurant in Peebles. firefighters were called to Peebles Grill on Highway WH shortly after 5pm Monday to a report of smoke and flames. "There was a small fire contained to the kitchen area. It appears to be something left on a small, heated serving cart that started on fire," Sheriff’s sergeant Eric Halbach told WFDL news. Halbach says an adjacent tenant heard […]
The Berlin police chief says his department hopes to make an arrest soon in connection with a double homicide over the weekend. A Berlin woman and her boyfriend were shot and killed and the woman’s husband is considered a person of interest. That person was taken into custody over the weekend and later released. Police chief Dennis Plantz says its not the type of crime you would think could happen […]
The group End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin says there were 55 domestic abuse related homicides last year. The organization released the figures In its annual report Monday. End Domestic Abuse policy director Tony Gibart says there were 39 domestic violence homicide, ten perpetrators who committed suicide, four individuals who were perpetrating domestic violence who were killed by law enforcement, and two other individuals who committed suicide when law enforcement responded. Gibart says […]
Fond du lac police say the victim in a weekend shooting incident Is not cooperating with investigators. A Fond du Lac man received non life threatening injuries when he was shot in the leg in the 300 block of North Seymour Street early Sunday morning. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says a preliminary investigation has determined that there was an argument before shots were fired. "One of the frustrating things […]