Month: August 2022

The Winnebago County Correctional Center is reporting an inmate who walked away from the facility.   Authorities say 43 year old Michael Blake left the minimum security facility early Monday afternoon.   Blake is a white man, 5′7″, 170 pounds. He’s bald and has hazel eyes.   He was last seen wearing a beige T-shirt and green pants. He previously lived in the Appleton area and Menasha.  He was serving time for  possession of amphetamines with intent to […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Joe Biden plans to travel to the battleground states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania on Labor Day, just over two months before the November election. The White House and local labor union leaders Monday said that Biden plans to speak at Milwaukee’s Laborfest celebration and also go to Pittsburgh where other national labor leaders are appearing at that city’s Labor Day Parade. The White House says […]

Inflation eased last month as energy prices tumbled.  The Commerce Department reported Friday that consumer prices were up 6.3 percent in July from a year earlier.  Retired Ripon college economist Paul Schoofs says that's good  news.  Schoofs notes from June to July there was a slight decrease in the consumer price index of one tenth of one percent.  Responding to the Federal Reserve chair's comments that the Fed is determined to bring […]

CHICAGO (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has lifted a federal rule for fuel sales in four states in response to a fire last week at an Indiana oil refinery that could affect prices and supply. EPA Administrator Michael Regan said the emergency waiver was granted Saturday for Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. In a letter to state officials, Regan said the agency determined the waiver is necessary “to minimize […]

Pfizer's COVID-19 pill appears to provide little or no benefit for younger adults.  That's according to a large study by Israeli researchers.  The study of more than 100,000 patients showed the drug significantly reduced hospitalization and death among senors.  But younger adults didn't show any measurable benefit in the study,  which was published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.   Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says the vast […]

STURTEVANT, Wis. (AP) — A skydiver practicing for national competition has died after crashing into a pond in Racine County. Authorities say the 36-year-old man from Tennessee experienced a hard landing in the water next to the Skydive Midwest skydiving center near Sturtevant Sunday. The sheriff’s office says the man was not conscious when he was pulled from the pond by other skydivers. Deputies and members of the Union Grove-Yorkville […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s quarterback depth has taken a hit heading into the 18th-ranked Badgers’ season opener. Backup quarterback Chase Wolf injured his right leg last week and is out for an indefinite length of time. That leaves starter Graham Mertz as the only available Wisconsin quarterback who has taken a snap in a college game. Wisconsin coach Paul Chryst says he doesn’t know how much time Wolf will […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly leader has withdrawn subpoenas submitted as part of a Republican-led investigation into the 2020 election, marking the end of a 14-month endeavor that yielded no evidence of election fraud. Speaker Robin Vos on Friday withdrew subpoenas submitted to mayors across the state by former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice Michael Gableman, who he hired to investigate President Joe Biden's win in 2020. Vos fired […]

One person was injured and one person is in custody following a shooting incident in Fond du Lac.  Shortly after 8pm Saturday two Fond du Lac police officers were driving in the area of Family Dollar on West Johnson Street when they witnessed a person on foot in the parking lot of Family Dollar shooting toward two vehicles.  The officers chased the armed suspect taking him into custody at gun point near the dead end […]