Month: January 2016

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about a telephone scam that has surfaced this week.   Sheriff’s Lieutenant Cameron McGee says the caller claims they are with the sheriff’s office.  "People are getting phone calls reporting they are getting calls from someone identifying themselves as an officer with the sheriff's office reporting there's a warrant out for their arrest for failing to show up for jury duty,"  McGee told […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A New Jersey couple who admitted to defrauding a Kohl's department store customer rewards program of $600,000 has been sentenced and ordered to pay restitution in federal court in Milwaukee.  Pavan Gurram was sentenced Thursday to a year and six months in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $450,000 in restitution. His wife, Vanaja Gattupalli, received six months of probation.  The couple used a computer program […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Lincoln Hills School employee has been fired for excessive use of force and three others quit after they were put on paid leave as authorities investigate allegations of prisoner abuse.   Travis Taves was fired Friday. Another employee, Timothy Johnson, was among those who resigned, but Johnson says his resignation was a mistake. He wasn't allowed to revoke it.  Taves and Johnson were allegedly involved in […]

GERMANTOWN, Wis. (AP) — Police in Germantown are looking for suspects after a trailer containing about $70,000 worth of cheese was stolen from a trucking company.  Police say the trailer was taken early Friday from D and G Transportation. The 54-foot-long trailer and the semi-tractor used to steal it were found Friday night in the Milwaukee area.  The trailer was empty.  Anyone with information is asked to call Washington County […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Steven Avery's nephew, convicted in the 2005 sexual assault and murder of Teresa Halbach, has been moved from the Green Bay Correctional Institution.  The Wisconsin Department of Corrections' website shows Brendan Dassey is incarcerated at the Columbia Correctional Institution in Portage.  Dassey had been at the prison in Allouez  since 2009.  There's no immediate word from corrections officials on why the 26-year-old Dassey was moved. Dassey […]

LUDINGTON, Mich. (AP) — The last coal-fired steamship operating on the Great Lakes has been assigned National Historic Landmark designation.  The 410-foot SS Badger launched service on Lake Michigan between Wisconsin and Michigan in 1952. The ferry can carry 600 passengers and 180 vehicles.  The designation, which had been sought for years, was announced this week. Operators have made environmental improvements to keep the vintage vessel in service. Last year […]

A Milwaukee teenager involved in a chase that ended in a crash on busy  East Johnson Street in Fond du Lac last summer is scheduled to go on trial next month.  A jury trial is scheduled for February 17th for 16 year old Matthew Hinkle.  Hinkle is charged as an adult with fleeing an officer and hit and run.  Police say Hinkle was involved in a car jacking in Milwaukee, drove the stolen […]

An 18 year old suspect involved in a chase with police in Fond du lac and Dodge counties has pleaded not guilty in Fond du lac County.  Maxwell Decker of Berlin entered the plea this month in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court to two counts of taking a vehicle without the owners consent and eluding.  A plea and sentencing hearing is scheduled for February 26th.   Decker was convicted of vehicle theft in […]

Reading and hearing about new career opportunities is helpful. But what if you actually could try them out as well? Moraine Park Technical College is offering a unique opportunity to do just that with its new “Test Drive” workshops for welding and computerized numerical control (CNC).  Three CNC machining “Test Drive” workshops are being offered. The first two will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 2, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 […]