Fond du lac police are investigating the passing of counterfeit money at at least six Fond du Lac businesses. Police received complaints of counterfeit bills passed at JoAnn Fabrics, Kohls Department store and the Dollar Tree store Saturday. On Monday police received reports of counterfeit bills at American Bank and Horicon Bank and Taco Bell.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Likely presidential candidate Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker is dismissing a report that he helped steer tax credits and eased up on environmental oversight to benefit national hardware chain Menards after its billionaire owner donated $1.5 million to a conservative group. Yahoo News reported Monday that John Menard Jr. gave the money to Wisconsin Club for Growth to help advance Walker's agenda when he faced a […]
TOWN OF SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a bicyclist has died after colliding with a pickup truck in the Town of Sheboygan. The Sheboygan County sheriff's office got a 911 call about the crash around 6:30 Monday. Authorities say a 64-year-old man was driving a pickup that collided with a 22-year-old bicyclist on the road. The bicyclist was flown to a Green Bay hospital, but the sheriff's office […]
A Fond du lac County man convicted in a traffic crash that claimed the life of a Campbellsport teenager is going to prison. At a hearing Monday Fond du Lac judge Richard Nuss sentenced 20 year old Gilberto Castenada-Bobadilla to three years in prison followed by five years of extended supervision. The judge also ordered six years probation to run consecutive to the prison sentence. Castenado-Bobadilla pleaded no contest in […]
The mother of the victim of a fatal traffic crash says she hopes this case sends a message to other young people about taking responsibility when they get behind the wheel of a car. Jennifer Clouse’s 17 year old son Giovanni was killed when the car he was a passenger in slammed into a tree at the South Hills Country Club almost three years ago. The car driver, Gilberto Castenada-Bobadilla, […]
A public information meeting will be held Tuesday evening on a Fond du Lac road reconstruction project. A preliminary engineering plan will be discussed for improvements to North Rolling Meadows Drive. The project begins just north of Highway 23 and extends north through the southern Walmart driveway and is scheduled for next year. The project consists of adding a dedicated, slotted right turn lane, separated by curb and gutter and a […]
A Fond du Lac man has died after being pinned underneath a pick-up truck. Rescue personnel were called to the scene on Voyager Drive shortly after 11am Monday and found a 26 year old Fond du Lac man pinned underneath his F350 Ford pick up truck that was located in the driveway. The subject was pronounced dead at the scene. The initial investigation suggests that the man was underneath the […]
A Fond du Lac man involved in a shooting incident in downtown Fond du Lac last fall is going to prison. Fond du Lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced Marcus Britton to four years in prison and four years of extended supervision. Britton fired a gunshot into the air outside the Main Pub near 6th and South Main Streets last September. Nobody was injured. According to a criminal complaint Britton has […]
Waupun police had to subdue a man with a Taser after he was initially released to the custody of his mother. Police took the 25 year old man into custody on Friday morning for a drug related first time OWI offense. Because it was his first offense the man was released to the custody of his mother as an alternative to holding the subject in jail until he was sober. […]