Bike to School Day throughout the Fond du Lac School District will take place on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Not long ago, walking or biking to school was the norm. Over the past 30 years, the percentage of children biking and walking to school has declined from 50% or more to closer to about 15% currently. Today, parents drive as many as 50% of children traveling to school. School […]
The North Fond du lac school superintendent says his initial reaction is that requiring students pass a civics test to graduate from high school is unnecessary. A proposed bill calls for students to pass the same civics test prospective U.S. citizens face to graduate. North Fond du Lac superintendent and former social studies teacher Aaron Sadoff says everybody would agree that civics is very important. But Sadoff questions the need […]
A Waupun woman is in custody following a home invasion. Police Chief Dale Heeringa says shortly after midnight Tuesday officers were called to a Carrington Street residence Just off Main Street. Heeringa says a preliminary investigation indicates the subject was intoxicated and may have entered the wrong home looking for someone. Heeringa says the subject bit the homeowner and struck another woman in the head. Heeringa says officers had to […]
A Campbellsport man accused of trying to disarm a sheriff’s deputy has copped a plea. At a hearing in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Tuesday 20 year old Tanner Gremminger pleaded no contest to charges of battery to an officer, disarming a police officer resisting and possessing an electronic weapon. A charge of recklessly endangering safety was dismissed and read into the record. Gremminger was accused of pointing a […]
Bail has been set at $5000 cash for a Fond du Lac man accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a child. Fifty four year old Carlos Pacheco-Tapia, made his initial Fond du Lac Court appearance this week on a charge of repeated sexual assault of the same child. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 14th. He is accused […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Doctors have upgraded the condition of a woman hospitalized after a random shooting in eastern Wisconsin that left her husband, daughter and another man dead. Theda Clark Medical Center spokeswoman Megan Mulholland says 32-year-old Erin Stoffel was upgraded from critical to serious condition Tuesday. Menasha police say Sergio Daniel Valencia del Toro fought with his ex-fiancée Sunday before grabbing two handguns and riding his bike to […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A judge has decided that two girls accused in the stabbing of a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man should be evaluated by the Waukesha County's Department of Health and Human Services. The judge made the decision Tuesday after the girls' attorneys asked for the department to evaluate and determine services as if the girls were in juvenile court. The 12-year-old and 13-year-old girls […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Co-chairs of the Legislature's budget committee say an agreement has been reached in the Senate and Assembly not to move forward with Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to give the University of Wisconsin more independence from state law and oversight. The lawmakers declared the proposal dead on Tuesday. Lawmakers for weeks have been saying it was unlikely to pass. Sen. Alberta Darling and Rep. John Nygren also […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A GOP lawmaker pushing a bill that would repeal Wisconsin's prevailing wage law wants to revise the proposal. Republicans are divided over the proposal. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he doesn't have the votes to pass the measure and wants to reform the law through the state budget. Regardless, Rep. Stephen Nass of Whitewater, one of the bill's sponsors and chairman of the Senate labor committee, […]