Nobody was injured in an armed standoff this morning in the Fond du Lac Walmart parking lot. Around 7:30am Wednesday the Fond du Lac police SWAT team was called to the scene on North Rolling Meadows Drive after receiving a report of a man armed with a gun. The man was sitting in his car. Less than an hour later the subject was taken into custody without further incident. […]
A Waupun High School student is one of three Wisconsin students named a Presidential Scholar. Dylon Pokorny is a U.S. Presidential Scholar in Career and Technical Education, one of just 20 named nationwide. Each scholar named a most influential teacher as part of their application. Pokorny chose his high school agriculture teacher, Tari Costello. "I chose Ms. Costello because she is the one teacher who has pushed me to become […]
Fond du Lac school officials say a threat at Woodworth Middle School has been determined to not be credible. On Tuesday Woodworth Middle School administration received a message regarding a threat. Law enforcement and school administration did not deem the incident as a credible threat. The student that was responsible for making the threat has been identified. The Fond du Lac School District says it will follow through on the […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is releasing new information regarding a hit and run injury crash in front of Schmitty’s Oar House restaurant on Winnebago Drive last month. Initially witnesses say the victim was struck by an SUV while crossing the road to a parking lot. But Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says with the help of a local automobile repair shop, detectives were able to determine small pieces […]
The city of Fond du Lac has reached a tentative contract agreement with the Fond du Lac police union. The two year agreement calls for a 3.5 percent wage increase this year and a 3.25 percent increase next January. The agreement addresses the post-retirement benefit liability concerns the city has been discussing the last several years by replacing a post-retirement year of free health insurance with a new plan that […]
The director of the Fond du Lac County Fair says ticket sales for the Ted Nugent concert have spiked since a local organization wrote a letter to the editor last week asking the Fair Board to drop the politically incorrect rock n roller from its grandstand line-up. The issue exploded on social media after the group United for Diversity asked the fair board to cancel Nugent’s concert. United For […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) â The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is making emergency bottled water available when private wells are contaminated by livestock manure. DNR spokesman Jim Dick said Tuesday that the department wanted to get the program running before the spring farm spreading season begins and to help private well owners in Kewaunee County whose water is contaminated. One third of wells in that northeastern county tested positive for […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) Democrats on the Legislature's budget committee are ripping Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel for spending thousands of dollars on gifts for police who attend training seminars. Liberal group One Wisconsin Now obtained documents through an open records request Tuesday that show the state Department of Justice has spent nearly $53,000 on such items as backpacks, golf towels, commemorative coins, notebooks, tumblers and bracelets between the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) A new analysis of a sweeping tax reform plan offered by Wisconsin state Assembly Republicans shows it will cut income taxes for most filers but raise them for some. The nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau on Tuesday released its analysis of how the GOP plan unveiled last week would work over the next dozen years. The plan eliminates or scales back a number of tax credits and […]