MARSHFIELD, Wis. (AP) — Students in Wisconsin public schools are taking a new test intended to measure learning, but the exam's future is unclear as some state lawmakers say they'd like something different. That leaves some schools and teachers wondering why they worked hard to get ready for the Badger Exam. Districts across the state spent months preparing for the new tests by ensuring computer labs and students in grades […]
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A Wausau woman is the last link in a 68-person kidney transplant chain of donations that started in Minnesota, spread across the country and ended at the University of Wisconsin. After living with renal insufficiency for 30 years, 77-year-old Mitzi Neyens says that her condition had begun to worsen in the past two years. She was included in the chain after De Pere school teacher Megan […]
“I can’t believe the years have gone this fast,” says Sue Schmid in disbelief. Schmid, a certified occupational therapy assistant and activity aide at Harbor Haven Health & Rehabilitation, is one of a large, but shrinking number of employees who have worked for Fond du Lac County for their entire career. With nearly 42 years of service, Schmid is currently one of the most tenured employees, something that caught her […]
Fire destroyed a semi truck in Horicon over the weekend. Nobody was injured.
Dodge County will host the 69th annual Alice in Dairyland Finals events in May 2016. Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) Secretary Ben Brancel made the announcement Saturday during the Finale event for the selection of the 68th Alice in Dairyland in Manitowoc County. Agriculture provides 19 percent of the jobs in Dodge County, and $2.9 billion in economic activity. That amounts to more than one-third of […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Probable presidential candidate Scott Walker is in Israel on a five-day trip paid for by the governor's political organization and the Republican Jewish Coalition. The coalition's executive director Matt Brooks tweeted a photo Sunday of Walker in Jerusalem and near the Western Wall wearing a yarmulke, the traditional Jewish head covering for males. The Republican governor plans to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and talk […]
Three people received non life-threatening injuries in a two vehicle accident in Dodge County. The crash happened shortly after 11:30am Saturday on County Highway V at the intersection with Lomira Drive in the town of Leroy. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says a preliminary investigation shows a Kenosha woman driving a car eastbound on Lomira Drive struck another car as it was passing through the intersection sending the vehicle into […]
TOWN OF BELL, Wis. (AP) — Governor Scott Walker ordered flags to be flown at half-staff for an emergency medical technician who died while trying to save his mother from a northwestern Wisconsin fire. Sixty-two-year-old Dennis Swenson went into a Town of Bell home to try to save his 95-year-old mother, Dorothy Swenson, from a fire May 1st, but both ended up dying. Walker signed an executive order, ordering the […]
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Republicans making their pitch to be the party's 2016 presidential nominee aimed to out-do each other Saturday in arguing that President Barack Obama is a failed leader. But hitting Obama with the usual critiques — from his 2010 health care overhaul to allegations of missteps on foreign policy to the rise in the national debt during his time in office — also made it hard for […]