COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — President Barack Obama is coming out against compensation for college athletes. He says it would lead to bidding wars and "ruin the sense of college sports." Obama says what does frustrate him, though, is seeing college coaches and the NCAA making huge amounts of money while an athlete gets banished after getting a tattoo or free use of a car. He says that's unfair. Obama […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — An Ohio cheesemaker won the United States Championship Cheese with a 200-pound Swiss wheel. Guggisberg Cheese in Millersburg, Ohio, beat out 1,892 entries from 28 states. Out of a possible 100 points, the Swiss wheel scored 98.496 in the final round of judging Thursday. First runner-up was a brick cheese made by John Pitman of Mill Creek Cheese in Arena, Wisconsin. Their score was 98.389. Wisconsin had […]
TOMAH, Wis. (AP) — The director of the troubled Veterans Administration Medical Center in Tomah has been reassigned. According to the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs, Mario DeSanctis has been reassigned to a position at the Great Lakes Health Care System network office. The Tomah facility came under scrutiny in January when reports of narcotic overprescribing practices and retaliatory behaviors surfaced. The hospital is under investigation by the VA, […]
PHOENIX (AP) — Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will be the headline speaker at a luncheon hosted by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce. Walker is scheduled to give remarks at the Wednesday event in downtown Phoenix. Organizers say the luncheon is part of a leadership series that features political leaders who are considering running for president of the United States. Walker is a conservative favorite thanks to his anti-union approach. The […]
For many police officers and Fond du Lac residents it may seem hard to believe that four years have passed since a Fond du Lac police officer was gunned down in the line of duty. Officer Craig Birkholz was shot and killed while responding to a high risk domestic incident March 20th 2011. Police chief Bill Lamb says Birkholz arrived at the scene near Division Street and Lincoln Avenue shortly […]
A Beaver Dam man who robbed a gas station and convenience store is going to prison. Dodge County Circuit judge Joseph Sciascia sentenced 23 year old Zack Turck, to 12 years in prison and 23 years extended supervision for the June 2014 armed robbery of Coyote Liquor Store in Beaver Dam. According to a criminal complaint Turck entered the store and pointed a handgun at the clerk and demanded money […]
A Fond du Lac woman convicted for her role in a robbery at the Adelaide Park skateboard park more than two years ago has been placed on probation. At a hearing Friday Fond du lac judge Dale English withheld sentence and placed Cheyenne Steffen on probation for a year and a half. Steffen was convicted of party to the crime of armed robbery. Investigators says Steffen was the driver of […]
A Waupun man accused of beating a pregnant woman has been bound over for trial. At a hearing Friday 21 year old Zachary Disbrow entered pleas of not guilty to charges of false imprisonment, misdemeanor battery and disorderly conduct, all with a domestic abuse penalty enhancer. Waupun police were called to a Fond du Lac Street apartment on Jan. 19 for a report of a domestic abuse incident. According to […]
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin prosecutors want to introduce evidence showing the actor who played Screech in the 1990s TV show "Saved by the Bell" threatened to stab someone in one bar before he allegedly stabbed another person at a different bar Christmas Day. Dustin Diamond pleaded not guilty in January to charges stemming from a scuffle at a Port Washington bar. The claim that Diamond threatened a patron […]