Day: January 13, 2017

A Fond du Lac woman faces attempted homicide charges following a stabbing incident.  Assisstant police chief Steve Klein  says the domestic incident happened shortly after midnight Friday  in the 100 block of East Second Street.  Klein says a 45 year old Fond du lac man was treated at St. Agnes Hospital for stab wounds to his chest and shoulder.  Klein says the 36 year old woman stabbed the man with […]

Fond du Lac police are looking for a suspect in connection with a strong armed robbery.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein says shortly before 7pm Thursday police officers were called to the 100 block of North Military Road.  Klein says a woman got out of her car in a driveway and was attacked by a man who pushed her to the ground, stole her wallet and fled on foot.  The […]

Five people have been arrested in unrelated school threats in Oshkosh and Fond du Lac. Authorities say an 18-year-old man and two boys, ages 17 and 15, were arrested for threats that shut down Oshkosh's two public high schools Thursday. The schools reopened Thursday.  Police say those threats were made in 911 calls to the Waupaca County Sheriff's Office on Wednesday and Thursday.   In what is believed to be […]

When someone in Wisconsin calls 9-1-1 with an emergency, they could get a dispatcher who is highly trained in providing detailed medical help over the phone – or someone who has virtually no such training. Wisconsin has no minimum training standards for dispatchers, and the American Heart Association thinks that should change.  Bobbie Hicken is the Communications Operations manager in the Fond du Lac County Dispatch Center.  Hicken says Fond […]

A UW Madison professor who signed a letter ripping the DNR for changing its website language on climate change says he hopes the agency isn’t backing away from science.    Seven UW Madison climate, zoology and ecology professors say the new language incorrectly implies climate change is mysterious when its clearly caused by greenhouse gases produced  by burning fossil fuels.  Professor Stephen Carpenter is the director of the UW Madison Limnology […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The chairman of the Wisconsin state Assembly's Health Committee says ensuring that the nearly quarter of a million Wisconsin residents who have purchased health insurance under the federal law don't lose coverage is a priority as the law is replaced. State Rep. Joe Sanfelippo made the comment Thursday during a panel discussion among state health care leaders about the future of the federal law.  Wisconsin health […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A health care advocacy group wants Gov. Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers to devote more money into a program to screen high school students for drug abuse.  Walker has called a special legislative session to pass 11 bills to curb opioid abuse. One would allocate $200,000 more to the Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral to Treatment program. The program screens students for substance abuse through conversations and […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A legislator plans to introduce a bill this session that would lift Wisconsin's mining moratorium.  Gov. Tommy Thompson signed the moratorium into law in 1998. It requires companies to prove a sulfide mine can run for a decade without polluting state waters and a sulfide mine has been closed in the state for a decade without polluting the water.   Republican Sen. Tom Tiffany of Hazelhurst […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A candidate for Wisconsin state superintendent wants to create a statewide school board.  John Humphries on Thursday called for creating an Education Accountability Board, or a statewide school board. Wisconsin currently does not have such a board. The state superintendent position runs the state Department of Public Education without oversight of a board.  Humphries is challenging incumbent state superintendent Tony Evers and former Beloit superintendent Lowell […]