A Beaver Dam man has been convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Fond du Lac judge Dale English ordered an imposed and stayed eight year prison sentence and ten years probation for 29 year old Derek Schroeder. As a condition of probation Shroeder will spend six months in jail. According to a criminal complaint Shroeder had sex with a 16 year old girl from Waupun he met on a dating […]
Just because you can talk to your car doesn't mean you should. Two studies have found that voice-activated smartphones and dashboard infotainment systems may be making the distracted-driving problem worse. The studies released Tuesday by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the University of Utah found the systems let drivers do things like tune the radio, send a text message, or make a phone call while keeping their eyes […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is rallying young voters in Wisconsin's governor's race, saying if they show up to vote Republican Gov. Scott Walker can be defeated. Obama appeared at a rally near the University of Wisconsin campus. College students stood behind Obama on the stage as she urged young people to vote in the election for Mary Burke, saying she will fight to make college more […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to leave Wisconsin's voter photo identification law in place. The American Civil Liberties Union and other opponents of the law filed a federal lawsuit in 2011 challenging the Republican-authored mandate. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month said the state could implement the law while it considers the case.
The ACLU of Wisconsin says it plans to exhaust all of its legal options in an effort to stop voter photo ID from being implemented for the November election. A three judge panel of a federal appeals court ruled this week that the law is constitutional. ACLU legal director Larry Dupuis tells WFDL news he’s concerned that large numbers of voters aren’t aware of the photo ID law or don’t […]
Advocates on both sides of the gay marriage debate agree the Supreme Court decision this week on gay marriage is not the end of the road for the issue. The high court rejected appeals from five states seeking to ban same sex marriage without comment. Julaine Appling with Family Action Wisconsin says she believes the court will ultimately go on the record one way or the other. "We know this […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge in Wisconsin says she is lifting her hold on an order allowing same-sex marriages to take place in Wisconsin. Judge Barbara Crabb declared Wisconsin's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional in June, but she put her ruling on hold a week later while the state appealed. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review an appeals court decision upholding Crabb's ruling. Crabb says Wisconsin can […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources biologists confirm two cougar sightings this year. Trail cameras captured images of a cougar in Lincoln and Marinette counties. DNR wildlife biologist David MacFarland says the sightings, about 90 miles apart, could be the same cougar.
Nobody was injured following a natural gas leak in downtown Fond du lac Tuesday afternoon. Fire chief Pete O’Leary says construction crews working on the Retlaw Theatre reconstruction project accidentally hit a gas main shortly before 2pm. Businesses in the area were evacuated and a portion of Main Street was blocked to traffic. There was a strong odor of natural gas in the air. O’Leary says initially there was a […]