Month: October 2022

MILWAUKEE (AP) — David Stearns is stepping down as the Milwaukee Brewers’ president of baseball operations. Matt Arnold will take over the lead role in overseeing the team’s baseball operations. The team said Stearns will still have an advisory role to owner Mark Attanasio. The Brewers announced the transition Thursday. Arnold has been the Brewers’ senior vice president and general manager since 2020. Stearns led the Brewers’ baseball operations during […]

Nobody was injured following a gas leak that forced the evacuation of a dialysis center and six homes in Waupun Wednesday afternoon.  The leak happened after a construction crew hit a gas main on Beaver Dam Street.  Occupants of the Waupun Dialysis Center were relocated to the Waupun Memorial Hospital Emergency Department until the leak was repaired about an hour later.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge has rejected an attempt backed by liberals to allow absentee ballots containing an incomplete witness address to be counted, saying that would disrupt the status quo and cause confusion with voting underway less than two weeks before Election Day. The ruling on Wednesday was a win for the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature, which intervened in the lawsuit. The case focused on how much of […]

In-person early voting started this week in Wisconsin marking the start of the final two-week push to Election Day.   Fond du Lac County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says a lot of people have been voting early this week.  Freiberg says with all of the lawsuits that have been taking place over the past several months there may be some confusion about the absentee voting process.  The Wisconsin Supreme Court in July banned […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Someone who was hit by the man convicted in last year's Christmas parade crash says the verdict will help all the victims heal. Darrell Brooks was found guilty Wednesday of all 76 charges, including six counts of first-degree intentional homicide. He drove into the parade in suburban Milwaukee after fleeing a domestic disturbance with an ex-girlfriend. Tyler Pudleiner was performing with a high school band when […]

Fond du Lac will soon have three hospitals following an announcement this month that Froedert Health and Theda Care are teaming up to open a micro-hospital in Fond du Lac.  The Fond du Lac campus is projected to cost $35 million and will be in a retail district in the former Forest Mall.  Construction is expected to begin next spring and be completed in 2024.   Froedert also announced plans for a micro hospital in Oshkosh and […]

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Federal authorities say an investigation into the theft this summer of several semitrailers loaded with frozen beef from Nebraska has led to arrests and uncovered a multimillion-dollar theft ring targeting meatpacking plants in six Midwestern states. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security reported Tuesday that the discovery of the Miami-based theft ring began in June when several semitrailers loaded with nearly $1 million in frozen beef […]

The local unemployment rate is down slightly or unchanged in the latest reporting period.  The September unemployment rate in Dodge County was 2.8 percent in September, the same as August.  The Fond du Lac County rate was down two tenths of a percent to 2.8 percent.   The city of Fond du Lac's jobless rate stands at 2.9 percent, down from 3.2 percent in August.

The American Red Cross in Wisconsin is asking residents to step up and help protect the blood supply by donating this fall.  Red Cross spokesperson Laura McGuire says people of all blood types are needed, especially platelet donors and those with type O blood.  McGuire says it's important to donate now to help keep the blood supply from dropping ahead of the holidays.  People who donate between November 1 and November 22 […]