Month: July 2017

A Campbellsport woman has been convicted of running an opioid ring, dealing pills and heroin from her purse at her kitchen table.  Fifty seven year old, Lori Merget and seven others, including her son were charged back in April in Washington County with conspiracy to sell heroin.   Merget pleaded guilty this week to one count of of delivering  prescription pills and possessing heroin with intent to delivery.  A more serious […]

Kimberly Pickart says says she believes God put her in the right place at the right time to help a teenage girl involved in a head on collision in Fond du Lac.  Pickart was driving home to Waupun early Saturday morning on Highway 151 near Oakfield when she came upon the crash scene.  "I noticed very large tire shreds in the middle of the road.  At first I thought it […]

A Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain says a teenage driver survived a head on collision because she was wearing her seatbelt.   Eighteen year old Olivia Schafer miraculously escaped serious injury when her car collided head on with a drunk driver, driving the wrong way on Highway 151 south of Fond du lac over the weekend.  Waldschmidt says the at fault driver was not wearing a seatbelt and did […]

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin Medical Entomology Laboratory  and health officials from the Department of Health Services  and Public Health Madison-Dane County say a mosquito  found in Dane County is  a type of mosquito capable of  spreading the Zika virus.  Its the first documentation of this species of mosquito in Wisconsin.   However there is no evidence of Zika-infected mosquitoes in Wisconsin. The discovery is unlikely to indicate an elevated […]

The Fond du Lac High School Summer Band will take the stage Wednesday night for their second Buttermilk Festival performance in a joint concert with the GHO Symphonic Band from Germany.    The free program at Buttermilk Creek Park will begin at 7:15 p.m.  Under the direction of Chris Barnes and Matt McVeigh, the FHS Summer Band is comprised of high school students through all grade levels.  The GHO Symphonic […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly's top Republicans say they agree with most of the Senate's new budget proposal but will have to review the plan.  Senate Republicans introduced their proposal Tuesday as a standoff with their Assembly counterparts over road funding stretches on. It calls for $712 million in additional borrowing to pay for roads, gives public schools $650 million in additional aid and repeals the personal property […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two men accused of robbing a Wisconsin fast-food restaurant are facing murder charges after a bystander suffered a fatal heart attack during the incident.  A criminal complaint released Monday alleges 25-year-old Xavier Fleming and 32-year-old Nicholas Ivy took nearly $4,300 from a Culver's restaurant in Madison last month.  Contractor Christ Kneubuehl was in the restaurant with his crew at the time. Crew members told police Kneubuehl […]

BURLINGTON, Wis. (AP) — Flooding last week destroyed all the cash in the vault of a southeastern Wisconsin bank.  Fox River State Bank president Keith Polleck refused to disclose how much money was ruined, but said the Federal Reserve will have to replace every dollar.  Polleck said that the vault at the bank in Burlington, 35 miles southwest of Milwaukee, is water resistant but not waterproof. As the Fox River […]