Month: June 2022

UCLA and Southern California are planning to leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten Conference in a surprising move that could lead to another major realignment of college sports. A person who has been briefed on the discussions between USC, UCLA and the Big Ten said the schools have taken steps to request an invitation to join the conference. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity […]

Area law enforcement will be out in force this Independence Day Holiday weekend.  Fond du Lac County Sheriff's sergeant Brennan Wagner says motorists need to pay attention to the road and keep a safe distance between your vehicle and the vehicle in front of you.  "We will be out, the state patrol will be out.  We also have some scheduled federal grant time (enforcement campaigns)  around the travel weekend starting […]

A Mayville business has unveiled their renovated store following the completion of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s seventh annual Main Street Makeover contest.   Fred's Beds has been working with the staffs at Wisconsin Main Street and Milwaukee-based Retailworks, Inc. since January on interior and exterior improvements thanks to  a $10,000 grant from WEDC’s Main Street Makeover program. Interior improvements include new windows, lighting, counter, repainted walls and new decorations.  Outside, there's a new storefront with […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled a boy accused of shooting and wounding eight people at a suburban Milwaukee mall in 2020 should be tried in adult court. The court, on a 4-3 decision released Wednesday, said a Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge was wrong in denying prosecutors’ request to waive the teen, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, to adult court. Chief […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of a man who was arrested by officers responding to a report from gunshot location technology. The high court on Thursday ruled that the officers had reasonable suspicion to stop the man beyond just the gunshot technology. Justices ruled unanimously against Avan Rondell Nimmer, who was taken into custody in 2019 after officers observed him walking about 100 […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court have ruled that a conservation group can't challenge an agency’s decision to sell state park land for the construction of a high-end golf course along the shores of Lake Michigan. Opponents said the ruling will make it much harder for the public to challenge decisions of state agencies. The court’s 4-3 ruling said that the Friends of the Black River […]

The Fond du Lac Police Department received 31 first responder bags to help children deal with crisis situations as part of the REACH-A-Child™ program, thanks to a $7,500 grant from the  AT&T Foundation.   The program provides local sheriffs, police, EMTs and fire departments with First Responder REACH BAGs that contain a variety of children’s books that are given to children at the scene of  an accident, house fire or other emergency. The goal […]

AAA projects a million Wisconsinites will travel  for Independence Day.  That's just over four percent more than last year's holiday and just shy of those seen in 2019.  State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmusz says Independence Day will be the second busiest since 2000, as travel volumes continue to trend updward with no sign of slowing down.  Jarmusz says gas prices are forecast to be the most expensive for the holiday in […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court has ruled that a conservative member of the Department of Natural Resources policy board can stay on the panel indefinitely rather than being replaced by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ appointee. Former GOP Gov. Scott Walker appointed Fred Prehn to the board in 2015 and his term expired more than a year ago. But Prehn has refused to step down because the Republican-controlled […]