Month: January 2016

A Madison man has been convicted of firing a gun from his vehicle at another vehicle in Fox Lake last September.  A Dodge County jury found 22 year old Anthony McCaskill Jr. guilty on charges of discharging a firearm towards a person, endangering safety/reckless use of a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon, and possession of THC.  A pre-sentence investigation has been ordered.  The incident unfolded September 13th after McCaskill and his girlfriend got […]

A Reeseville man convicted of possessing child pornography is going to prison. Dodge County Circuit Court Judge Steven Bauer sentenced 35 year old Adam Rogers to ten years of initial confinement and 10 years of extended supervision.  In October, a jury found Rogers guilty on 20 counts of possession of child pornography. During the trial, a Wisconsin Department of Justice analyst testified that Rogers had approximately 40,000 images of children, […]

A state lawmaker wants to make the Wisconsin high school athletic association more open and transparent.  Representative John Nygren is introducing a bill that would subject the WIAA to the open records and meetings laws.   Nygren told WFDL news he decided to reintroduce the bill after the WIAA drew ridicule for instructing schools to step in if fans boo or jeer rivals at basketball games.  Nygren says the speaker and majority leader have told him they support the […]

The author of a bill that would provide a free college education for students in Wisconsin says she believes the state could afford it.  Democratic state representative Melissa Sargent says she doesn’t have the cost impact…but says its about setting priorities.  Sargent says 70 percent of students are borrowing money to go to college and leave school with an average debt of $29,000.  Sargent says the program would apply to college in the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A bill that would prohibit drones from flying over Wisconsin prisons and allow municipalities to establish no-fly zones is drawing flak from drone operators and technology advocates. Under the bill, anyone who flies a drone over a state correctional institution would face a fine up to $5,000.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Department of Natural Resources will soon start work on new rules allowing Wisconsin hunters to leave tree stands and ground blinds on agency-managed lands overnight.  The agency's current prohibition on overnight stands aims to keep people from staking out territory. But agency officials say overnight stands are allowed on other public lands and could be convenient for older hunters.  The Natural Resources Board voted Wednesday […]

BLUE MOUNDS, Wis. (AP) — A state board has approved plans that would allow snowmobiling in Wisconsin's Blue Mound State Park, a popular cross-country skiing and snowshoeing spot in Dane and Iowa counties.  The park will add snowmobiling for the first time in more than 20 years after the state Natural Resources Board voted 7-0 Wednesday to approve changes to the park's master plan. Department of Natural Resources staff recommended […]

The winter freeze has come just in time as Fond du Lac, WI celebrates the 200 million year history of the prehistoric fish with its first annual  STURGEON SPECTACULAR – A Celebration of Winter.   And really big fish.  - February 12-14, 2016.  The Sturgeon Spectacular grew from the wish to continue the time-honored sport of sturgeon spearing into a gathering of friends, family and visitors in Fond du Lac and the Lake […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Federal agents say a Milwaukee man arrested for trying to buy machine guns to attack a Masonic temple also wanted to travel to the Middle East and kill Israelis, but abandoned that plan. Twenty-three-year-old Samy Mohamed Hamzeh is charged with unlawfully possessing a machine gun and receiving and possessing firearms not registered to him. The FBI recorded conversations between Hamzeh and two federal informants talking about an […]