WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prison inmate has been charged with first-degree murder in a 37-year-old cold case. The state Department of Justice announced the charge Wednesday against Donald Wayne Maier, now 60, in the 1985 slaying of 28-year-old Benny Scruggs. Scruggs was found stabbed to death in his bed in his Wisconsin Rapids home. Maier is serving 15 years in prison for six counts of stalking in […]
Today is the last day on the job for Fond du Lac County Emergency Management director Bobbie Hicken. Hicken is stepping down after five years at the helm after accepting a job in the private sector. Hicken says while she is proud of what she was able to accomplish and enjoyed her work, it will be nice not having to be on call around the clock. Hicken says the county […]
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace says Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, has died. She was 96. Elizabeth spent more than seven decades on the throne as the U.K. rebuilt from war, lost an empire, transformed its economy and both entered and left the European Union. She was a constant presence, the only monarch most Britons have ever known, and she guided the institution of the monarchy through choppy waters. […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is encouraging health care providers to to be on the lookout for polio cases and to reinforce routine childhood polio vaccination following the recent polio outbreak in New York state. The Wisconsin Department of Health and Human Services sent out a statewide memo recently to health care providers about a Clinician Outreach and Communication Activity call to discuss how to report suspected cases and recommendations for polio […]
The Fond du Lac County Rolling Meadows Golf Course manager says the course is on pace to at least break even financially this season. The news comes after the new county executive expressed concerns about the course operating in a deficit over the last several years. Golf Course manager David Brandenburg says after a slow start because of the weather, play has steadily picked up. Brandenburg says revenue was up over 20 percent […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission has approved guidance for local election clerks making clear that voters with disabilities can receive help from others when mailing or delivering absentee ballots. The commission voted 4-2 on Tuesday to approve the guidance, which was ordered by a federal judge last week. All three Democrats and one Republican voted in favor of the guidance, while Republican commissioner Don Millis and […]
Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt of Fond du Lac says he's not surprised that Assembly speaker Robin Vos fired former state Supreme Court Jusitce Michael Gableman , ending a 14 month, taxpayer-funded inquiry into the 2020 election. Thiesfeldt says the investigation got off to a strong start, but then fizzled out for a variety of reasons. Thiesfeldt says the $1 million in taxpayer money spent on the investigation was more money than […]
BAY CITY, Wis. (AP) — Two people have died in the crash of an experimental airplane in western Wisconsin. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Office says the plane went down about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in a field near the Red Wing Regional Airport on Highway 35 in Bay City. Officials say the Glass Air Super II SFT had taken off at an airport in Rochester, Minnesota for a training flight. It […]
STRONGS PRAIRIE, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Justice is leading an investigation into the fatal shooting of a man by a sheriff’s deputy. Authorities say an Adams County deputy responded to a report of a person walking in the road in the town of Strongs Prairie about 7 p.m. Tuesday. DOJ’s Division of Criminal Investigation says that when the deputy approached the man, he was found to be […]