OSWEGO, N.Y. (AP) — A 690-foot freighter that replaced the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald as the flagship of a Great Lakes shipping company will be scrapped. The American Fortitude spent the winter docked at the Port of Oswego, on Lake Ontario in central New York. Port officials tell The Post-Standard of Syracuse that the 62-year-old vessel will leave this weekend for Canada, where it will be scrapped. The iron ore carrier […]
A Waupun Correctional Institution inmate faces attempted homicide charges after he allegedly tried to kill another inmate and injured a correctional officer. 28 year old Eric Conner is charged with attempted first degree intentional homicide and battery by prisoners. Conner is accused of making a shank and attacking the 27 year old inmate. Following the stabbing, correctional officers spotted the homemade knife and attempted to subdue Conner. That’s when Conner is […]
L-R: Doug Darby, WFDL news director Greg Stensland, Anthony Alvarado The public is invited to attend a heroin summit at the Fond du Lac High School Performing Arts Center. Two of the program’s keynote speakers are recovering heroin addicts Anthony Alvarado and Doug Darby. The pair formed the group Rise Together and travel the state sharing how they went from rock bottom to recovery. Darby says he nearly died […]
A Fond du Lac man says he thought he was going to die on Mount Everest. In an exclusive interview on AM 1170 WFDL’s Between the Lines program, Andy Land says his team had traversed the Khumbu Icefall and he was in his tent at Camp1 when the earthquake struck Saturday. "When we were in our tent at 20,000 feet and the earthquake hit we didn't know it was an […]
The Fond du Lac police chief says regardless of the outcome of the investigation into the death of 25 year old Freddie Gray there’s no excuse for the riots in Baltimore. Like most area residents Chief Bill Lamb has been watching the news coverage of the violence. "I don't think the word tragic even begins to cover that," Lamb told WFDL news. Lamb says the first step in the […]
The Fond du Lac school board has accepted another round of teacher retirements effective at the end of the school year. School officials say the seven teachers have a combined 186 years of teaching experience. Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says in total nearly two dozen school district personnel will be retiring after this school year. "Prior to 2011 we would have five to 10 (retirements) generally speaking. Then […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans have quietly introduced three bills that would require food stamp users to buy healthy food and applicants for state job training programs and unemployment benefits in certain fields to undergo drug screening. Rep. Robert Brooks' bill would require food stamp users to use at least two-thirds of their monthly allotment to purchase nutritional foods. They would be banned from purchasing crab, lobster or shrimp. Rep. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin lawmaker says she wants to double the state's minimum wage, calling the matter a civil rights issue. At a Tuesday press conference at the Capitol, Rep. Melissa Sargent, a Madison Democrat, introduced a bill that would increase the minimum wage to $15 an hour. The current minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Sargent said the state's minimum wage is "unlivable" and forces employees to […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers are asking Gov. Scott Walker to veto a bill that opponents argue doesn't do enough to regulate ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft. The veto request Tuesday comes after two Madison women reported incidents of unwanted sexual contact over the weekend by Uber drivers. Eleven Dane County Democrats are requesting that Walker veto the bill that passed both the Assembly and Senate on bipartisan […]