A 6 year old boy was taken to the hospital after nearly drowning at a Washington County park Tuesday evening. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting an unresponsive 6 year old boy on the beach at Yahr County Park on Orchard Valley Road in the Town of Farmington. The Sheriff’s Department says while deputies and rescue personnel were enroute, dispatchers were told the boy was receiving […]
Hundreds of job seekers met 75 regional employers with 1,000 job openings during the Fox Valley Career Expo. The expo was held Wednesday at the Fond du lac County Fairgrounds Expo Center. Many local workforce agencies volunteered at the event, which was coordinated by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) in partnership with the Fox Valley Workforce Development Board, Fox Valley Technical College and Moraine Park Technical College. […]
The Fond du Lac County District Attorney says a nearly one thousand page DOJ report on the fatal shooting of a state patrol trooper in Fond du Lac shows how quickly the entire incident unfolded. Video footage shows law enforcement squad cars converging on a grocery store parking lot…all within seconds of each other as Tropper Trevor Casper and bank robbery suspect Steven Snyder exchanged gunfire. District attorney Eric Toney […]
The Fond du lac City council president says she would have to be convinced that the entire city would benefit before she would vote for a proposal that would allow Winnebago Lutheran Academy to develop a portion of McDermott Park. The school wants to enter into a 50 year lease with the city to construct athletic fields and a parking lot on a portion of park land. Council president […]
The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says local health care providers have been alerted following an announcement last week of a salmonella outbreak in the Midwest. State health officials say 10 cases in three states, eight in Minnesota and one each in Wisconsin and Oklahoma have been linked to two multistate Salmonella outbreaks. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says so far there have […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The plan for a new Milwaukee Bucks arena now shifts to the local level. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett expects the Common Council to vote on its portion of the funding plan by early September. The city is asked to contribute $47 million by providing a parking structure and tax incremental financing. Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele has been criticized by some county supervisors for his plan […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Media advocates are arguing that Wisconsin's open records law doesn't need a substantial rewrite to address police body camera videos. A panel addressed the issue during a state Department of Justice summit examining whether the law needs to be updated to reflect changes in technology. Attorney General Brad Schimel began the discussion by asking whether images containing nudity, sensitive statements, interrogations and gruesome shots of bodies […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former leader of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the agency's new reorganization plan won't fix its problems. On Tuesday, the agency launched a reorganization to divide protection for water quality between two divisions and leave other environmental protection programs in a "business support" division. George Meyer is the agency's former secretary and now directs the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation. He says the agency needs […]
WISCONSIN DELLS, Wis. (AP) — The state won't investigate the failure of a ride at a Wisconsin Dells theme park. Earlier this month, a large cable snapped on the Catapult ride just seconds before it was supposed to launch two people into the air at Mount Olympus Water and Theme Park. The state Department of Safety and Professional Services will not investigate the failure, saying it only looks into accidents […]