Month: January 2016

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1-19-16 fdl police talk with person of interest regarding “suspicious incident”

Fond du Lac Police have made contact with a man involved in a suspicious incident last week…but no arrests have been made.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein told WFDL news says a 50 year old Fond du lac man admitted he talked with a female middle school student who was walking home from school last Wednesday, but denies having any physical contact with her.   Meanwhile Klein says it turns out a man seen on […]

todayJanuary 19, 2016

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1-19-16 nance murder trial scheduled to start this week

A jury trial is scheduled to get underway this week for a Fond du Lac woman charged in the murder of her husband.  Eve Nance is charged with first degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. She is accused of shooting her husband Timothy Nance in their Fond du lac home and dumping his body in a wooded area in Milwaukee.  His body was found on Thanksgiving Day, 2013.

todayJanuary 19, 2016

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1-19-16 wisconsin housing market

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A new report says Wisconsin posted its best year for sales of existing homes in a decade in 2015.  The Wisconsin Realtors Association said Monday that closings on residential properties increased 11.4 percent and the median sale price rose 5.1 percent. The group says a solid December put the finishing touch on a strong year with an 8.9 increase in sales of existing homes compared with December […]

todayJanuary 19, 2016

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1-19-16 democrats talk agenda ahead of walker’s state of state

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Democratic legislative leaders say they want to hear bold plans from Gov. Scott Walker during his upcoming State of the State address.  Rep. Peter Barca and Sen. Jennifer Shilling said Monday that the Republican governor needs to work with them to strengthen the state's middle class and improve its infrastructure.  They say Democrats have a suite of proposals aimed at boosting working families, including creating a child […]

todayJanuary 19, 2016

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1-19-16 walker-mlk celebration

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy encourages people to focus on love instead of hate.  The Republican governor said Monday at an annual MLK celebration breakfast in Milwaukee that the civil rights leader's quote from decades ago "hatred cannot drive out hatred; only love can do that" provides an important lesson today.  Walker says "all too often, there are those out there, regardless […]

todayJanuary 19, 2016

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1-19-16 fdl area united way at 94 percent of goal

The Fond du Lac Area United Way has just a few days to reach its goal before the United Way Board makes its allocation decisions for the year.  United Way director Amber Kilawee says she hopes the $756,000 goal can still be met before the board meets this Thursday to decide how to allocate money to the 28 member agencies.  Kilawee says as of today the fund drive is about $43,000 short of the […]

todayJanuary 19, 2016

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1-18-16 fdl police talk with person of interest in “suspicious incident”

Fond du Lac Police have made contact with a man involved in a suspicious incident last week…but no arrests have been made.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein says a 50 year old Fond du lac man admitted he talked with a female middle school student who was walking home from school last Wednesday, but denies having any physical contact with her.  Meanwhile Klein says it turns out a man seen on surveillance video leaving the […]

todayJanuary 18, 2016

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1-18-16 fdl high school students forced to evacuate in bitter cold after fire alarm pulled as a prank

Students at Fond du lac High School had to spend a few minutes outdoors in the bitter cold, many without a jacket,  after the fire alarm sounded Monday.  School District health and safety program coordinator Marian Sheridan says a student apparently pulled a fire alarm as a prank.  'This is a dangerous situation.  We take fire alarms very seriously, and as the law requires us to do we have to evacuate,"  Sheridan […]

todayJanuary 18, 2016

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1-18-16 republicans propose eliminating minimum hunting age

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Assembly Republicans are pushing to eliminate the minimum hunting age in Wisconsin.  Currently children as young as 10 can hunt with a mentor. But the mentor and student can have only one weapon between them.   Representative Joel Kleefisch has introduced a bill doing away with the minimum age limit and allowing both the mentor and the student to have a weapon. Kleefisch told the Assembly […]

todayJanuary 18, 2016