Month: December 2021

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A Wausau man has won $1.1 million playing fantasy football. The Wausau Daily Herald reported Wednesday that 45-year-old ginseng farmer Will Hsu won the money in a game hosted by website Draft Kings. The Green Bay Packers' 31-30 win over the Baltimore Ravens on Dec. 19 helped him beat out 180,000 competitors. Hsu says the win was a once-in-a-lifetime thrill and he plans to donate about […]

On Thursday December 30th, 2021 at approximately 2:39am a Deputy with the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office had located a vehicle at the Kwik Trip off E Johnson St in the City of Fond du Lac which was reported stolen out of Green Bay, Wisconsin.  The vehicle went mobile at which time the Deputy followed until there was assistance from the City of Fond du Lac Police Department to […]

BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors in Sauk County have charged a man in connection with a stabbing at a Lake Delton hotel. The Portage Daily Register reported Tuesday that Darren Rolle was charged Dec. 17 with battery, reckless endangerment, disorderly conduct and possession of THC. According to the criminal complaint, a woman called police to the Malibu Inn on Dec. 15 and told officers Rolle had stabbed her. She said […]

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Police in Eau Claire have arrested a man who allegedly got stuck in a bush with a bag of cocaine on Christmas morning. Prosecutors charged David Lunde of Prescott on Monday with multiple counts, including cocaine possession, resisting an officer and carrying a concealed weapon. The Eau Claire Leader-Telegram reports that the criminal complaint states an officer noticed a vehicle with a burned-out tail light […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The National Weather Service has confirmed a rare December wind storm spawned eight tornadoes across west-central Wisconsin. The Dec. 15 storm swept across multiple states. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Sunday that the storm produced three EF-2 tornadoes, three EF-1 tornadoes and two EF-0 tornadoes. The EF-2s touched down in Clark County and in Stanley, a city in Chippewa and Clark counties. An EF-1 touched down in […]

MONTELLO, Wis. (AP) — Investigators are working to figure out why a Marquette County mobile home blew up on Christmas Day. The Princeton Fire and Rescue Department issued a news release Monday saying the sheriff's deputies received a call about 1:38 p.m. on Saturday that a mobile home in Mecan Township had exploded, scattering debris throughout the area. The home wasn't occupied and no injuries were reported. The Princeton Fire […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has pardoned 30 more people, raising his pardon total to 337 over his three years in office. He's now surpassed the nearly 300 pardons that former Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle issued over eight years in office. Evers announced the additional pardons Tuesday. Most of the pardons he granted involved drug offenses. Other offenses included fraud, fleeing an officer, theft and a home […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Mammal experts have named a new species of possum after the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh professor who discovered it. The Oshkosh Northwestern reported Thursday that UW-Oshkosh biology professor Greg Adler was working on research near the Panama Canal in 2001 when he found a mouse possum with a longer tail than usual and a brownish rather than the common salmon-colored belly. He sent the animal to the […]

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Officials in Waukesha plan to take down a temporary memorial honoring the people killed and injured when an SUV plowed through the city's Christmas parade last month. The city plans to remove the memorial at Waukesha's Veterans Park on Wednesday. The memorial includes six crosses, flowers, candles, teddy bears and baseballs to honor 8-year-old Jackson Sparks, who was killed as he marched with his youth baseball […]