Month: April 2016

Investigators say a fire that destroyed a landmark Fond du Lac restaurant and tavern was arson.  The February 24th fire destroyed the Wayside Bar on West Division Street.  Investigators with the Fond du Lac Police Department, Fond du Lac Fire and Rescue and the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation/State Fire Marshal’s Office have determined the fire was intentionally set.   Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Lee Mikulec at (920)322-3726 or by […]

L-R:  fdl judge peter Grimm, Elizabeth Hayes, Mark Jurgella, Peggy Breister The Fond du Lac School Board has elected a new president.  At their organizational meeting last night the Fond du Lac School Board elected Mark Jurgella as board president.  "Its a pretty nice priviledge to be presiding over the meetings with the group we have,"  Jurgella told WFDL news.   "I'm looking forward to this next school year and the […]

ANTIGO, Wis. (AP) — The mother of a man accused of shooting two people at a Wisconsin prom says her son "wasn't a monster." Lorrie Wagner talked to The Associated Press briefly outside her home in Antigo on Monday. Police say her son, 18-year-old Jakob Wagner, shot and wounded two people with a rifle Saturday night before he was killed by police. Outside Antigo High School.

When it comes to preventing concussions, football and hockey get the majority of both the press and research dollars.  But a new study by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health will examine the efficacy of using headgear for high school soccer players.   Senior scientist at UW and the lead researcher, Tim McGuine, says concussions in soccer aren’t caused by directly heading the ball, but the actions associated with heading.  McGuine says a […]

Fond du Lac County Treasurer Julie Hundertmark is not running for re-election.  County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says Hundertmark has filed a declaration of non-candidacy.  Hundertmark was appointed to the position in 2010 by the county board. She was elected to her first full term in 2012.  Town of Taycheeda Clerk and county board supervisor Brenda Schneider is the only announced candidate for the position.  The filing deadline is June first.   Meanwhile nobody has taken […]

A Fond du lac woman accused of helping her sister dispose of a body will be allowed to travel out of state for a family vacation if she puts up a cash bond.   At a hearing Friday Fond du Lac Judge Robert Wirtz said the only way Tina Ewell would be allowed to travel to New York with her family would be if she would post $1500 cash bond first and surrender her passport.   Ewell […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says his administration plans to develop new chronic wasting disease tactics.  Test results last year show 9.4 percent of 3,133 deer were infected, the highest prevalence rate since the ailment was detected in Wisconsin in 2002.  The DNR initially called for thinning the herd as much as possible to stop the disease's spread but hunters never bought in. The agency has since adopted […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Dane County judge has refused to stay his ruling striking down Wisconsin's right-to-work law.  Judge William Foust found the law unconstitutional earlier this month, ruling it amounts to an illegal taking on union services without compensation. The state Justice Department has filed a motion asking Foust to stay the ruling and leave the law in effect while the agency appeals. Foust ruled during a hearing […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group of states has filed its opening brief in a federal lawsuit challenging the Obama administration's new ozone limits.  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tightened the limits on ozone, a smog-forming pollutant linked to asthma and respiratory illness, to 70 parts per billion in October. A coalition of states including Wisconsin, Arizona, Kentucky, New Mexico, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Utah and Texas filed a […]