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Beginning next year area hospitals will no longer make public news of the first babies born in the new year.  Agnesian HealthCare says Ripon Medical Center, St. Agnes Hospital and Waupun Memorial Hospital will no  no longer provide area media outlets with birth announcement information.  Agnesian says it is  joining many other hospitals wishing to protect the overall safety of newborns under their care. With parental permission, Agnesian HealthCare says it […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Governor Scott Walker's administration says Wisconsin faces a $2.2 billion budget shortfall by mid-2017, a problem that will have to be tackled by the Republican-controlled Legislature next year as Walker is building his resume for a potential presidential run. The estimate released Thursday by the state Department of Administration is required under the law. It takes into account spending requests made by state agencies for the next […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker whose daughter has Down syndrome says a bill to create a voucher program to help students with special needs attend private school in Wisconsin will pass "one way or another."  Rep. John Jagler said Thursday the issue is his top priority and he will be discussing it with Gov. Scott Walker when they meet before the start of the legislative session in January. […]

A third person has been charged in the heroin overdose death of a Fond du lac County man two years ago.  Alonzo Cornelius of Milwaukee made his initial Fond du lac Court appearance Thursday on charges of first degree reckless homicide-delivery of drugs and manufacture-delivery of heroin as a repeater.  Bail was set at $250,000 cash.   Cornelius is the third person charged in the heroin overdose death of town […]

Three people were transported to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries in a two vehicle accident in Fond du Lac County.  The accident happened Thursday afternoon on Highway WH and North Peebles Lane in Peebles…north of Fond du lac.  The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office directed traffic around the accident scene.

Bail was set at $10,000 cash for a Fond du Lac man arrested following a violent domestic incident.  Carlos Flores Jr. made his initial Fond du Lac Court appearance on 16  misdemeanor domestic abuse related charges and one felony count of false  imprisonment.  According to a criminal complaint Flores violently attacked a woman over a period of about an hour kicking her, pulling her hair and hitting her multiple times […]

WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) — Police officers were called to West Bend East High School where students became unruly over a new hall pass policy. Superintendent Ted Neitzke says some students became unruly during a planned meeting to discuss the new hall pass procedures. One student says some of her classmates were flipping tables and tearing things off the walls.