Month: December 2015

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Temperatures in Wisconsin feel more like spring than mid-December.  Widespread, consistent rain caused slick conditions for commuters Monday morning. And the National Weather Service posted a flood warning for rivers near Baraboo, Blanchardville, New Munster, Martintown, Brodhead and Portage.  The rain  tapered off  Monday with fog, drizzle, wind and slowly falling temperatures Monday afternoon. More normal temperatures are expected to arrive later this week with highs Thursday […]

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office may be closing in on a suspect in a gas station robbery near Beaver Dam last week.  Sheriff Dale Schmidt says the BP gas station on Madison Street was robbed last Tuesday.   Schmidt says the suspect displayed a weapon, stole an undisclosed amount of cash and fled on foot. He says the white male suspect was last seen traveling westbound on Lake Crest Drive in […]

BALSAM LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A defense attorney for a young Minnesota man acquitted in the fatal stabbing of a Wisconsin fisherman says his client was in "disbelief" when the verdicts were read.  A jury in Polk County on Monday found 20-year-old Levi Acre-Kendall not guilty of second-degree intentional homicide and first- and second-degree reckless homicide in the death of 34-year-old Peter Kelly of St. Croix Falls. He was fatally […]

There are at least four contested races for Fond du Lac County Board in next spring’s election.   Michael Gannon is challenging Sarah Everson in District 5,  John Venhuizen, Ed Smith and Sam Kaufman are running for the district 7 seat where incumbent supervisor Richard Wetzel is not running for re-election, John Meyst is challenging Dean Will in District 21 and Brian Kolstad and Cary McQuitty are running for the District […]

Today is the deadline to sign up for coverage through the Health Insurance Marketplace for coverage beginning January 1st.    As of last week in Wisconsin nearly 76,000 people had signed up and Kevin Kane with Citizen Action says he’s pleased with the the numbers.  "We want to make sure that as many people get access to truly quality, affordable health care,"  Kane told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program. […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Proposed state legislation could end a long legal fight over Native American effigy mounds in Dane County.  The bill would force the Wisconsin Historical Society to allow the owners of a limestone quarry in the town of Blooming Grove to excavate a 3-acre plot in order to prove whether human remains are actually buried there.  Wingra Stone and Redi-Mix have been mining around the plot at […]

When Better Business Bureau launched BBB Scam Tracker earlier this year, it was expected that tax scams would be high on the list. What was surprising was how high; more than the next three categories put together. In the first 10,000 scam reports processed by BBB, a whopping 24% were about imposters pretending to be either the Internal Revenue Service (2,363 reports) or the Canadian Revenue Agency (50 reports). The rest of […]

WFDL news has learned the state Department of Health Services is withdrawing its Supervised Release Plan to locate a convicted violent sex offender from Milwaukee to Fond du lac County.   Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney told WFDL news he first heard the news from the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office Monday.    State officials noted in their letter to a Milwaukee County Circuit judge that a pre-emptive ordinance […]

Angela Hoch was selected as Marian University’s Veteran of the Month.  Hoch, a native of the Fond du Lac area, served in the United States Air Force from 1987 until 1991. Hoch entered the Air Force right out of high school, and completed basic training in Texas before being assigned to a security police squadron in Hawaii.   “My time in the service was the best decision of my life,” […]