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 Dr. George E. Koonce, Senior Vice President for University Relations at Marian University and former linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, has been selected for one of The Black Excellence Awards, for being an exceptional person who has made a positive impact toward the City of Milwaukee.  The award is sponsored by WISN-TV 12, The Milwaukee Business Journal and the Greater Milwaukee Urban League.  “I am honored and humbled by the Black Excellence Award,” […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love is producing as many long pass completions as anyone in the league in his first year as a starter.  Yet the key to his recent surge has been his willingness to settle for a smaller gain when a big play isn’t available. Love has thrown for 590 yards with five touchdown passes and no interceptions during the two-game winning streak […]

No serious injuries as rescue personnel responded to more than two dozen crashes on slippery roads in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties Thursday morning.  Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt says icy roads are to blame.  Five vehicles including an ambulance were involved in a crash on Interstate 41 near Lomira.   A portion of I-41 was closed between Highway B and state Highway 49 following the crash.

Two people were killed in a head on collision caused by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 41 in Dodge County.  Preliminary reports indicate a vehicle traveling northbound in the southbound lanes of 41 collided head on with a southbound vehicle near state Highway 67.   The driver of the northbound vehicle, an 82 year old Campbellsport woman,  and the driver of the southbound vehicle, a 34 year old Oshkosh man, were pronounced dead at […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Federal inspectors have levied fines against two construction companies in connection with a worker's death at Lambeau Field earlier this year. The stadium is home to the Green Bay Packers.   Twenty seven-year-old Joshua Shaw died in June after he was struck by a dumbwaiter car while working inside one of the stadium's video scoreboards. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration Fined […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A vehicle wanted in connection with a homicide in Chicago smashed into a school bus while fleeing police in Milwaukee, sending multiple people to area hospitals. Milwaukee police say they began chasing the vehicle Wednesday morning. The vehicle collided with the school bus, which crashed into several other vehicles. The driver of the suspect vehicle fled but was captured after a foot chase. Two people in his […]

The Fond du Lac Public Works director says 2023 was a busy year for park improvements throughout the city of Fond du Lac.  Paul DeVries updated the advisory park board at their meeting this week.  DeVries says several major projects were completed at Lakeside Park.   "The Lighthouse renovation and then right in that same neighborhood, Lighthouse Drive and making it a safer bike and pedestrian-way for those users,"  DeVries told WFDL […]

This is eye donation month.  SSM Health Greater Fond du Lac in partnership with the Lions Bank of Wisconsin and UW Organ and Tissue donation is hosting tabling events this week  to raise awareness  about the importance of organ, eye and tissue donation.   Lions Eye Bank Development specialist Anne Otter says donation can give the comfort of knowning their loved ones' wishes were honored and that they live on through donation.  […]

Area high school students and local entrepreneurs are pitching their business ideas with the winners advancing to a regional pitch contest this week.  Envision Greater Fond du Lac hosted their first ever This Pitch event earlier this month... one for high school students and one for adults.  Envision Vice President of membership  and resource development Joe Venhuizen says the high school competition showcased innovative ideas from Campbellsport, Laconia and North Fond du Lac High […]