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The U.S. economy slowed sharply from January through March, decelerating to just a 1.1 percent annual pace as higher interest rates hammered the housing market and businesses reduced inventories.   Retired Ripon College economist Paul Schoofs says it's good news as the Federal Reserve seeks to cool economic growth enough to curb inflation without causing a recession.  The Commerce Department estimate showed the nation's gross domestic product,  the broadest guage of economic output weakened […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — A judge has sentenced a former Wisconsin student who stabbed his high school's police officer with a barbecue fork to 17 years in prison. A jury in February convicted Grant Fuhrman of attempted first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the 2019 incident at Oshkosh West High School. Prosecutors accused Furhman of stabbing Officer Mike Wissink multiple times. Wissink shot the then-16-year-old Fuhrman. Neither was seriously injured. […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Fourteen-year-olds in Wisconsin could serve alcohol to seated customers in bars and restaurants under a bill circulated for cosponsors by a pair of Republican state lawmakers. Under current law, only workers age 18 and above can serve alcohol to customers in Wisconsin. The bill circulated Monday would broaden that to workers ages 14 to 17. The bill sponsors say they're trying to address the state's worker […]

DAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — People along the Mississippi River in southeast Iowa and northwest Illinois are warily watching rising water levels from the spring snow melt. Further north, floodwaters are beginning to slowly recede and reveal damage there. The National Weather Service said many of the crests across the region this spring will rank in the top 10 all time but will remain well below the records set in past […]

The Fond du  Lac County Sheriff's Office is continuing it's investigation after learning about a threat of violence at the Laconia Intermediate School.  The Sheriff's Office says early Monday morning the FBI notified the Sheriff's Office of a  school threat video they intercepted that had been shared on a social media platform.   Working with the FBI, sheriff’s deputies were able to identify the Rosendale Intermediate School student who spoke of this threat on social media.  […]

After hearing concerns from residents, the Waupun Common Council has voted to suspend the Waupun Community Garden for a year. In March the council had voted to allow the use of a vacant lot on Welch Street for the garden, but residents complained they didn’t want the garden in their neighborhood. Mayor Rohn Bishop the city will look for a new location for next year. The garden moved from a […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Crews have secured two containers cars along the Mississippi River after a freight train derailment in southwestern Wisconsin left four railway employees with minor injuries. BNSF Railway spokesperson Lena Kent says Thursday’s derailment involved two of the train’s three locomotives and 10 cars carrying a variety of freight, including paint and lithium-ion batteries. She said Friday morning that two rail container cars that entered the Mississippi […]

A huber inmate walkaway in Dodge County has been apprehended. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office received a tip from the public that Michael Kirk had checked into the Holiday Inn Express in Beaver Dam. When Dodge County Human Services made contact with him, Kirk barricaded himself inside his hotel room. After about three hours of negotiations Kirk surrendered without incident.

Nobody was injured in a fire that destroyed a vacant barn in Dodge County. Shortly before 1:30pm Sunday firefighters from several departments were called to a farm on Oakwood Road to a report of a vacant barn fully engulfed in flames. Waupun Fire Chief B.J. DeMaa says the barn was destroyed and nobody was injured. The cause of the fire remains under investigation. photo: waupun fire department