MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin state Assembly has passed a bill to ensure that scores on the statewide Badger Exam given to public school children this spring aren't used against teachers or put on report cards measuring school performance. The bill that passed with no debate Wednesday previously cleared the Senate. It now goes to Gov. Scott Walker. The Badger Exam was beset with a variety of problems that […]
James Simon, of Fond du Lac, is the grand prize winner of the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation’s Samaritan Health Clinic $150,000 Cash Raffle, being randomly drawn for the $100,000 cash prize. Tickets sales were steady all morning on the drawing’s final day, May 13. The suspense was finally relieved when the grand prize winner was announced by Drs. Alyssa Stephenson and Michael DeGere, 2015 house […]
A Fond du Lac woman involved in what initially appeared to be a minor traffic accident has died from her injuries. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says Margo Lemke was involved in a two vehicle crash at the intersection of First Street and Park Avenue April 28th. She died the following day from internal injuries. Lemke was 77. Klein says Lemke was driving on Park Avenue when a car struck […]
A Fond du Lac man arrested a year ago for running a meth lab is in custody again for the same offense. Police found materials used to make methamphetamine at a 6th Street residence on April 25th. Police described the operation as a “mini meth lab.” The same person was arrested last year for running a meth lab out of a Lincoln Avenue home.
A Wisconsin prosecutor says a white Madison police officer who shot an unarmed biracial man to death in March will not be charged because the officer used lawful deadly force. Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said Officer Matt Kenny had been punched in the head and feared for his life when he shot 19-year-old Tony Robinson Jr. Ozanne spent some 25 minutes laying out investigative findings in the case. […]
An attorney for the family of a 19-year-old biracial Madison man says they still have more questions than answers after a prosecutor declined to charge the white police officer who fatally shot the man. The grandmother of Tony Robinson, Sharon Irwin, says the prosecutor's decision "is politics, not justice." Attorney John Loevy says the family supports the community expressing frustration and anger, but they want protests to be peaceful. Demonstrators […]
A Winnebago Lutheran Academy official says it’s a win-win situation for the school and community. The school is asking the Fond du Lac city council for permission to lease a portion of McDermott Park adjacent to the school to construct three athletic fields and a parking lot. WLA director of communications and mission advancement pastor John Boggs says the school would pay for construction of two softball diamonds, and a […]
A DNR wildlife expert says there is no evidence that a snowy owl found dead from the bird flu contracted the virus from infected poultry. The snowy owl was found by a DNR conservation warden in the breakwater area of Green Bay last month. "There's no way that we can connect the dots in that way. This result in this snowy owl does not indicate that there's widespread presence […]
The Fond du Lac High School graduation rate is slightly higher than the statewide average. The Department of Public instruction said Wisconsin’s graduation rate last year was at 88.6 percent, up slightly from the year before. Fond du Lac school superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says locally the graduation rate is above 90 percent. For many years in the late 80s and early 90s Fond du Lac’s high school graduation rate […]