Nobody was injured in a two vehicle accident on Highway 41 that backed up traffic for several miles. The accident happened over the noon hour on 41 near Lomira. Investigators say a female driver was apparently texting and lost control of her vehicle.
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Attorneys for one of two Wisconsin girls charged with trying to kill a friend to please a fictional horror character will argue her case belongs in juvenile court. Lawyers for the 13-year-old girl will argue in court today that the law requiring adult charges for attempted first-degree intentional homicide is unconstitutional. The 13-year-old and a 12-year-old friend are accused of stabbing Payton Leutner in a Waukesha […]
The president of the Fond du Lac County Economic Development Corporation says Con Agra officials have told him the decision to close a cookie plant in Ripon was strictly a market decision. Steve Jenkins says he talked with Con Agra officials based in Omaha, Nebraska who told him it was a market decision and had nothing to do with the city of Ripon or the workforce. Con Agra announced last […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Customers of Wisconsin's largest utility caught a break this past winter. After paying almost $800 to keep warm during the "polar vortex" winter of 2013-14, bills for a typical We Energies customer were down by almost $190 for the six-month heating season that ended April 30. Company spokesman Brian Manthey says a typical customer's bill fell 24 percent to $596 between Nov. 1 and April 30. While […]
MOUNTAIN, Wis. (AP) — An Oshkosh man has died in an ATV crash in Oconto County of northeastern Wisconsin. The sheriff's office says the 35-year-old man failed to negotiate a curve, went off the road and crashed into a large group of trees near Mountain. Another driver came upon the scene and reported the crash around 9:45 p.m. Saturday. The victim died later at a hospital. His name wasn't immediately […]
Nobody was seriously hurt in a traffic accident near Division and Macy Streets shortly before 8am Tuesday.
FDL High School Marching Band in Memorial Day Parade and ceremony at Veteran's Park
On May 24, 2015 at 02:07AM, Fond du Lac Fire / Rescue responded to a report of smoke and flames coming from a residential home at 331 Linden Street. Upon arrival, fire crews found heavy fire on the back side of the home that had extended into the first and second floors of the structure. Fire crews quickly extinguished the fire, but not before it caused extensive heat and smoke […]
On Friday, the U.S. Eastern District Court upheld claims in a lawsuit filed by 1000 Friends of Wisconsin and cut off federal funding for the Highway 23 road expansion project between Fond du Lac and Plymouth. The Court agreed with the land use organization that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation used unsupported, inflated traffic forecasts to justify the project. Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Wisconsin Steve Hiniker says the […]