BEAVER DAM, Wis. (AP) — Officials have changed a southeastern Wisconsin city's rules on service animals after a woman took a baby kangaroo into a McDonald's restaurant. The city's Common Council voted 14-0 Monday night to define a service animal as a dog or miniature horse, but not a kangaroo. Police can cite people who try to use other animals. Beaver Dam police say the woman wrapped the baby kangaroo […]
A complaint filed with the Wisconsin Supreme Court says a Fond du Lac attorney allegedly tried to bribe a court assistant after he claimed he was being “railroaded” by a Winnebago County judge. The complaint filed by the Office of Lawyer Regulation says attorney Kirk Everson was upset because the judge refused to reschedule an owi trial. According to the complaint Everson offered the judge’s assistant a gift card and […]
Fond du Lac residents are using social media to criticize a restaurant for demanding payment from firefighters who didn’t pick up their order because they were responding to a fire. On Friday June 5th six firefighters ordered takeout from the Cool River Sports Grill and Bar but then were called to a garage fire and later the vacant convent building fire. Division Chief of Fire Prevention Troy Haase says the […]
Fond du Lac Festivals estimates a slight increase in attendance at this year’s Walleye Weekend despite the rain. Fond du lac Festivals director Leanne Doyle says overall attendance was estimated at 65,000 compared to 63,000 last year. Doyle says Friday’s attendance was estimated at about 15,000, 34 thousand on Saturday and 16,000 for Sunday.
The Fond du lac School superintendent says Fond du Lac Youth Baseball and the Recreation Department are making it work even though kids have fewer diamonds to play baseball on this summer. Superintendent Dr. Jim Sebert says Baseball Inc. decided to close the 4th Street ball diamonds this year after the district ended its lease agreement with the organization. "They are two very nice diamonds but they are the property […]
The Fond du Lac County board has approved a supplemental wage increase for the union representing a group of social services employees. County Executive Al Buechel says because of Act 10 the group received a smaller pay increase this year compared to other non-union employees. "There's another factor we have to keep in mind. They are part of a five county consortium and their wages are way below the other […]
A Fond du Lac man has been charged with sexually molesting two girls nearly two decades ago. Fifty six year old William Thomas is charged with two counts of sexually assaulting a child and one count of exposing genitals. According to a criminal complaint Thomas is accused of fondling two girls when they were eight or nine in the mid 1990s.
Now that the new speed limit has been posted in Interstate 41…local law enforcement has a message for motorists. The new 70 mph limit will be strictly enforced. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Captain Rick Olig says deputies have been instructed to strictly enforce the new speed limit. "The speed limit is 70, that's the bottom line, strict enforcement, 70 mph, " Olig told WFDL news. " The concern is […]
The Fond du Lac police department will be hosting series of public forums for the east district . The forums will be held Wednesday, next Tuesday and Thursday at the American Legion Hall on Fond du Lac Avenue. Wednesday's forum starts at 3:30pm. Residents are invited to discuss crime and neighborhood issues in the eastern district.