A water main break has forced the Fond du Lac Forest Mall to close Thursday. Fire Chief Pete O’Leary says the incident was reported shortly after 7am. O’Leary says there is standing water in the mall from the center court east to Younkers Department store. " It was good when it was found because they had remediation companies cleaning up water," O'Leary told WFDL news. "It was just a little […]
Fond du Lac police say reports of an armed man possibly on the Marian University campus Thursday morning are untrue. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says police were investigating a report of a suspicious person outside the English Meadows apartments near the university but were unable to locate anyone. Klein says a bit of a panic was created when Marian officials sent a text alert warning that police were looking […]
A Madison man accused of firing a gun from his vehicle at another vehicle in Fox Lake has pleaded not guilty to charges against him. 21 year old Anthony McCaskill Jr. entered the plea this week in Dodge County Circuit Court. He's charged with discharging a firearm towards a person, endangering safety/reckless use of a firearm, and carrying a concealed weapon. The incident allegedly unfolded September 13th after McCaskill and […]
Big Sugar and Big Corn face off in court this week in a bitter, multibillion-dollar battle of sweetners that boils down to a mix of science, semantics and marketing. Jurors in the case between sugar processors and corn manufacturers will take up one of nutrition’s most vexing debates and confront a choice common among consumers: sugar or high fructose corn syrup. The federal court trial grew out of efforts by […]
Republican state senator Rick Gudex of Fond du Lac says he supports a compromise bill that would keep two retired judges on a new ethics commission. Republicans met privately Tuesday to reach a compromise on the bill doing away with the nonpartisan Government Accountability Board, which is currently comprised of retired judges. Senator Gudex says he supports including two retired judges on the ethics commission. Gudex says he also supports […]
TOWN OF SPRINGFIELD, Wis. (AP) — A nonprofit organization is aiming to open Wisconsin's first monkey sanctuary in Marquette County in another year or two. Primates Incorporated received a recent $50,000 donation to help open a home for retired research monkeys near Westfield. The organization owns 17 acres in the Town of Springfield where the monkeys would live in indoor-outdoor structures. The Portage Daily Register says Amy Kerwin founded Primates […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is not commenting on news that a police death he called an "assassination" in a column bashing President Barack Obama and anti-police rhetoric was actually a suicide. Walker wrote the column in September, a day after the death of Fox Lake, Illinois, police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz. Police originally said they were looking for three shooting suspects, but on Wednesday said the officer […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is telling a new commission on efficiency that taxpayers expect government to be accountable and effective. Walker spoke Thursday at the first meeting of the commission he created on government reform, efficiency and performance. He says the government needs to operate in a balanced way so it provides needed services in an efficient way that protects taxpayers" money. Walker says the commission will […]
More customers with low-to-moderate household incomes will be eligible to receive heating assistance this year, thanks to a change in federal guidelines. Funding from the Energy Assistance program can help pay heating bills or weatherize your home. To find out if you are eligible: In Wisconsin: Call 1-866-432-8947 or visit gov Alliant encourages customers to apply now because funds for this heating season are limited. Eligibility for Energy Assistance is not affected by utility account or home ownership […]