Month: April 2016

A groundbreaking ceremony will be held Friday to announce another expansion at Fond du lac’s Mercury Marine.  Merc will be adding  50,000 plus square feet to its global headquarters for additional manufacturing capabilities.  State and local dignitaries will be on hand.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Children's Hospital of Wisconsin says one of its patients has been diagnosed with the bloodstream infection Elizabethkingia.  The child is in the neonatal intensive care unit at Children's in metro Milwaukee. The hospital says there's no indication the child has a serious infection, but the case has been forwarded to state health officials and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Children's says its standard infection prevention […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New state statistics show less than two-thirds of black students in the class of 2015 graduated from Wisconsin high schools within four years. The Department of Public Instruction released data Thursday showing 64 percent of black students in the class of 2015 graduated within four years. That's down from 65 percent in 2014. By contrast, 92.9 percent of white students in the class of 2015 graduated […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin prosecutors are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a state Supreme Court decision that shut down an investigation of coordination between Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and conservative groups.  Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne said that he, Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and Iowa County District Attorney Larry Nelson filed the appeal Thursday.  Chisholm launched the probe in 2012 under the John Doe […]

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Former House Speaker John Boehner says he has friends in both parties -- but it's clear that Ted Cruz isn't among them. Boehner told students at Stanford University that Cruz is "Lucifer in the flesh" -- and the most "miserable" person he's ever worked with. The animosity between them dates back to the partial government shutdown that was triggered by Cruz and tea-party conservatives in […]

A Ripon College political science professor says after primary contests this week it looks like the Republican presidential nomination is Donald Trump’s to lose.  Ripon College political science professor Marty Farrell says Trump’s sweep of Tuesday’s contests now put him on pace to get the required number of delegates heading into the convention.  Farrell says the interesting phenomenon is that voter turnout this week was down considerably compared to the Wisconsin primary earlier this month.  "That […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. Senate hopeful Russ Feingold is refusing to say whether he voted for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin's Democratic presidential primary earlier this month.  Feingold declined to tell reporters following an appearance at a Madison club on Thursday how he cast his vote in the April 5 election. He said talking about his vote would do no good since his goal is to help […]

Airplanes reaching back to the earliest days of military aircraft will be in the air and on the ground this summer, as the centennial of World War I aviation is a major part of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2016, the “World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration.”   EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the 64th annual Experimental Aircraft Association fly-in convention, will be held July 25-31 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.  The airplanes participating at […]

Assistant Fire Chief Steven Beer has earned Executive Fire Officer status after completing a four year program at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Maryland.  The EFO program requires each student to attend four on-campus classes which are each two weeks in length. After each on-campus class, students must successfully complete an applied research paper  within the following six months focusing on a problem area within his/her department.  “I am […]