Oshkosh police are searching for a 19-year-old man in connection with a July shooting. Officials say Daniel D. Billings is wanted for 1st degree reckless injury as a party to a crime and armed burglary. According to police, a 24-year-old man was shot in the back on Hobbs Avenue on July 27th during a robbery. That man was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries.
Two people are dead after an untralight plane crashed into a river shortly after takeoff in Jefferson County last night. Officials say the plane tookoff from Fort Atkinson Municipal Airport around 8 o’clock last night. Shortly thereafter, the plane went down in the Rock River. Rescue crews had to use boats to try and reach the victims, a 51-year-old man from Edgerton and a 16-year-old boy from Fort Atkinson. The […]
North Fond du Lac High School will not be fielding a football team this season. The announcement comes after the school’s Athletic Director says numbers on the team were down heading into the season, and the decision was made in the interest of safety to younger players who would be forced into playing bigger opponents too quickly. Officials say the school will still field a JV team, and hope to […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new analysis shows Wisconsin may not break even on incentives to lure Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn to the state for at least 25 years. Gov. Scott walker has introduced a bill that would give Foxconn up to $3 billion in incentives to build a plant in southeastern Wisconsin. The analysis examined scenarios where the state would reach a break-even point between incentives given and taxes […]
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Federal investigators say the pilot of a seaplane that crashed on Lake Winnebago in eastern Wisconsin last month, killing himself and a passenger, tried to take off for Minnesota despite warnings about rough water. The plane crashed July 27 while trying to take off from the Experimental Aircraft Association's seaplane base near Oshkosh during the group's annual convention. The National Transportation Safety Board issued its preliminary […]
JEFFERSON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say an ultralight plane with two people on board crashed into a river in Jefferson County. First responders used boats to reach the victims. There's no immediate word on their conditions. WTMJ-TV reports the plane went down in the Rock River near the Fort Atkinson Municipal Airport about 8 p.m.
A 33-year-old Richfield man is facing multiple felony charges after driving his boat into a swim raft on a Washington County lake. Sheriff’s deputies were called to Friess Lake around 9:30 Sunday morning for multiple reports of a man violating a no wake order and crashing into objects in the water. As a deputy attempted to make an arrest, the man fled to the shoreline and left his boat running […]
A Village of Oostburg man is charged in the shooting deaths of two people late last month. 41-year-old Sergio Ochoa was officially charged with two counts of 1st degree intentional homicide yesterday in Sheboygan County Court. According to the criminal complaint, Ochoa was gone when police arrived to find the two bodies on June 30th, but he later turned himself into police, saying he didn’t mean to do what he […]
Waupun police are looking to identify four to five boys who were caught on camera vandalizing the Waupun Aquatic Center over the weekend. Police say the boys can be seen arriving around 8:30 Sunday night, when they begin throwing hundreds of rocks into the pool. A diving board was also damaged as a result of the incident. Police say they have pictures of the boys, but because they are minors, […]