FOND DU LAC – The Children’s Museum of Fond du Lac is hosting its annual Play BIG Touch a Truck event Sept. 27. The event, part of Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play, will run from 9 a.m. to noon, ...

More than three years after getting fired for urinating in a drain at work, ex-Detroit Red Wings Zamboni driver Al Sobotka heads to trial this week in Wayne County Circuit Court, where he hopes to ...

The ice resurfacer is a Model 200 Zamboni, a smaller model that attaches to a tractor. Both are brand new and were unveiled at the rink on Friday, October 31. The money to purchase both came from a ...

Discover what it takes to maintain the perfect ice surface as we follow a day in the life of a Zamboni driver. From early morning safety checks to the precise art of resurfacing the ice, this video ...

A jury has decided against former Detroit Red Wings Zamboni driver Al Sobotka in his lawsuit claiming wrongful termination. Sobotka, fired in 2022 for urinating where the Zamboni ice is dumped, argued ...

Sobotka claims he's a victim of age discrimination. He also said he has a prostate condition that makes bladder control difficult. Longtime Zamboni driver Al Sobotka wiped away tears as he described ...

1:55 Halifax Zamboni driver hangs up the keys after 50-year career It’s the end of an era. Fifty years ago, Kelly Saunders got his start operating a Zamboni ice resurfacing machine at several rinks ...

If the name Al Sobotka rings a bell, you might remember him as the long-time, octopus twirling, Zamboni driver for the Detroit Red Wings for the past several decades. He was fired from the staff in ...

Former Red Wings Zamboni driver Al Sobotka sued for age discrimination after being fired for urinating in an ice drain. Sobotka's lawyer argued the firing was an excuse to replace him with a younger ...

A Wayne County jury has found that longtime Detroit Red Wings Zamboni driver Al Sobotka was not discriminated against because of his age and disability when he was fired for peeing in a drain in the ...

A longtime Zamboni driver for the Detroit Red Wings is fighting back in court with a wrongful termination suit against his former employer, Olympia Entertainment. Al Sobotka, who was 68 at the time, ...