Month: January 2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State health officials say three more children have died from flu complications in Wisconsin, bringing the total number of pediatric deaths to five.  The latest report from the state Department of Health Services says this flu season is second only to 2009 when the swine flu caused the deaths of six children.  In the U.S. this season, Wisconsin is behind only Texas with seven pediatric deaths. […]

JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Mitt Romney is scheduled to return to Wisconsin this spring, but he won't come back as a Republican candidate for president.  Romney said Friday he will not run for president in 2016.  The business group Forward Janesville says Romney will keynote its annual dinner on April 7 in Janesville, hometown of his former running mate U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan. The last time Romney was in Janesville […]

Mayville police say a suspect involved in an armed robbery Friday morning was impersonating a police officer.  The incident happened at 11am Friday on Highway TW near Theiler Park.  Police say the suspect was driving a newer model, navy blue Dodge Charger and activated red and blue lights on the vehicle's dash to perform an alleged traffic stop.  The victim, a 56-year-old Watertown man told police that the suspect had […]

A Sabish Middle School student is the Fond du Lac spelling bee champion.  Stephen Warner correctly spelled “flamboyant” to win the trophy.  Jack  Rabe of Faith Lutheran finished second and Benji Cole of Redeemer Lutheran School placed third.  Thursday night’s spelling bee was held at the Theisen Middle School Auditorium.

The UW Fond du Lac Dean says he’s not sure how the UW system would be able to absorb the cuts proposed by Governor Scott Walker in his two year state budget to be unveiled next week.  The governor has proposed cutting funding by $300 million to help solve a projected $2 billion budget shortfall.  UW Fond du Lac Dean John Short says the two year campuses are already lean […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has ordered immediate cost-saving moves after Gov. Scott Walker announced he wants to slash the system's funding.  The Republican governor is grappling with a $2 billion deficit in the next state budget. He said the spending plan he'll present next week will cut $300 million from the system but hand it more independence.  Cross sent a memo Wednesday to […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker is calling for dramatic changes in Gov. Scott Walker's budget plan for the University of Wisconsin System.  Walker has proposed slashing the system's budget by $300 million, freezing tuition for two years and decoupling the system from state oversight.  Sen. Steve Nass of Whitewater, one of the system's toughest critics and vice-chair of the Senate's universities committee, has warned the plan would allow […]

Fond du Lac resident Bud Caldwell says it truly was a remarkable act of kindness when you think of it.  Every day the 82 year old Caldwell visits a bench near the Lakeside Park train station dedicated to his wife Betty who died almost two years ago.  Every day Bud says he reports and confesses to his wife and leaves a daisy and a penny on the bench.  Caldwell says […]