
Jason Fechner
News Anchor at Spectrum News 1 (Milwaukee, WI)
Anchor at @SpectrumNews1WI, via @ValpoU, @MedillSchool, @WXOW, @WQAD, @WRTV & @RileyChildrens...
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2 days ago |
spectrumnews1.com | Jason Fechner
MILWAUKEE — Any traditional thought that tick season doesn’t really start in Wisconsin until temperatures consistently climb needs to go by the wayside, officials say. “Ticks have been active for quite a while now,” said P.J. Liesch, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab. “It’s something that can often catch folks off-guard.
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4 days ago |
spectrumnews1.com | Jason Fechner
“As long as those fires in Canada continue to burn [with] our proximity to them in the Upper Midwest, it’ll just depend on weather patterns and whether or not that smoke is able to transport here to our area,” said Craig Czarnecki, Wisconsin’s DNR outreach coordinator for air management.
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2 weeks ago |
spectrumnews1.com | Jason Fechner
MIWLAUKEE — Elias Rodriguez of Chicago remained behind bars Thursday night after prosecutors say the 31-year-old shot and killed two Israeli Embassy employees in Washington, D.C. late Wednesday night. Investigators also said he was yelling, “Free Palestine!” after he was arrested. The Department of Justice confirmed Thursday it was looking into the fatal shooting as a hate crime and an act of terrorism.
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2 weeks ago |
spectrumnews1.com | Jason Fechner
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. — Following Tuesday night's vote in Port Washington, the city appears set to add itself to the growing list of communities in Wisconsin welcoming in massive new data centers. "Wisconsin is always attractive to businesses because of our workforce [and] our natural resources," said Missy Hughes, the CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
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2 weeks ago |
spectrumnews1.com | Jason Fechner
MILWAUKEE — With arguably the best possible health care available to him as president and after his time in office, some have questioned whether former President Joe Biden’s medical team may have missed what’s now deemed to be an aggressive form of prostate cancer. But Dr. Shannon Offerman, a radiation oncologist at Ascension Elmbrook Hospital, said there are multiple reasons that someone’s cancer could go undetected or that it could form after a previously negative test.
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