Month: August 2019

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross has named a temporary UW-Green Bay chancellor.  The system announced Thursday that Cross as picked Sheryl Van Gruensven as interim chancellor. Van Gruensven currently serves as UW-Green Bay's vice chancellor for business and finance. She's also the co-founder and co-leader of UW-Green Bay's Women's Leadership group.   She will replace Chancellor Gary Miller effective Oct. 1. Miller is resigning to become […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin officials say the gray wolf population may have stabilized after nearing extinction decades ago.  The state Department of Natural Resources says it counted from 914 to 978 wolves in the year to April 2019. The agency says that is a 1% increase from the last count.  State data shows there were just 25 wolves in Wisconsin 1980.   A federal judge placed the gray wolf on the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State auditors are releasing more data on federal citations issued against the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King.    The Legislative Audit Bureau noted in an August 2017 report that the state Department of Health Services issued 184 citations against the home on behalf of the federal government between 2012 and 2016.  The bureau filed a Freedom of Information Act to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly a dozen lawsuits with potentially millions of dollars at stake are in limbo thanks to a dispute between Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul and Republicans who passed a lame-duck law giving themselves the final say over settlements.  Kaul and Republican committee members can't agree on how to discuss the cases. Kaul wants the committee to sign confidentiality agreements before discussions begin. Republicans have refused.  The Department of […]

The Fond du Lac County Tobacco Control program coordinator says a proposed Tobacco 21 bill is part of an overall strategy to reduce tobacco use by young people.  The bill would bump the minimum age for buying tobacco and nicotine products, including e-cigarettes from 18 t o 21.  Fond du Lac County Tobacco Control program coordinator Sandy Bernier says the recent reports of severe lung illnesses caused by vaping may have been, at least […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee's city health department is urging residents to immediately stop using vaping products after 16 people were hospitalized this month with a severe lung disease.  The department said in a statement Wednesday the individuals hospitalized in August all reported vaping in the weeks and months before they became ill with "severe chemical pneumonitis, or chemical pneumonia." Officials say it's an inflammation of the lungs due to inhalation of […]

A Milwaukee man is going to prison for robbing a man at an Interstate 41 wayside.  Twenty five year old  Keenan Brown was sentenced to 8 years in prison and five years extended supervision  in Dodge County Court.    He was convicted in June of Robbery with Use of Force and Substantial Battery.  The sentence will run  consecutively to the sentence Brown is already serving.  Brown will not be released from prison until  2029.  […]

A Waupun man arrested following an incident that critically injured the man’s grandmother has made his initial  Fond du Lac court appearance.  Thirty year old Gregory Spittel  is charged with threatening a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.  He is also charged with possession of  cocaine and drug paraphernalia.   Judge Richard Nuss set bail at $21,000 cash.   Police were called to the Brandon Street home last Saturday and found Spittel’s grandmother with […]

A motorcyclist was killed in a car vs. motorcycle crash in Dodge County.  The crash happened shortly before 6am Wednesday on  Kellom Road north of CTH B in the Township of Beaver Dam.  A northbound motorcycle was making a left turn into a business parking lot and collided with a southbound passenger car.  The driver of the car was uninjured and was the only occupant of the car. The driver of the cycle […]