A Waupun Correctional Institution officer was transported to the hospital after being attacked by an inmate. Sources told WFDL news officer Brad Waltz was punched in the face by an inmate in the northwest cell hall. The incident happened shortly after 5:30pm Tuesday. Waltz was transported to Waupun Memorial Hospital with what were described as minor injuries. The inmate was subdued with pepper spray.
A Milwaukee man convicted in the drug overdose death of a Fond du Lac County man is going to prison. At a hearing Tuesday afternoon Fond du Lac judge Gary Sharpe sentenced Stephen Jordan to 10 years in prison followed by six years extended supervision. In May Jordan pleaded guilty to a charge of first degree reckless homicide/delivery of drugs for supplying the heroin that led to the overdose death […]
An elderly Antigo man was killed and two people were injured in a two vehicle crash on Interstate 41 south of Fond du lac. The crash happened shortly after 2pm Tuesday on northbound 41 near Fond du Lac County Highway B. An 80 year old Antigo man was killed and two Green Bay men received non life-threatening injuries in the crash. Fond du Lac Fire chief Pete O’Leary says the […]
The Fond du Lac Public Works director says a major road reconstruction project will inconvenience motorists for the rest of the summer. Jordan Skiff says Military Road between Seymour Street and Pioneer Road is closed for the next two months as construction work continues on the Military and Pioneer Road project. "We always knew this part of the Pioneer Road project would be coming. Fortunately to this point we've been […]
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — A federal appeals court is keeping gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region on the endangered species list. A panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday upheld a district judge's 2014 ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had acted prematurely by removing federal protections from wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Wolves had nearly disappeared from […]
RIVER FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Employees of a Wisconsin technology company who received a microchip implant in their hand say the experience was only a brief sting. Three Square Market , also known as 32M, says 41 of its 85 employees agreed to be voluntarily microchipped during a "chip party" at company headquarters in River Falls on Tuesday. Melissa Timmins, vice president of sales at 32M, says she was initially […]
VERONA, Wis. (AP) — A group of Republican legislators has introduced a bill that would allow relax restrictions on wineries and craft breweries. Reps. Dale Kooyenga, Shannon Zimmerman and Gary Tauchen along with Sen. Sheila Harsdorf introduced the bill during a news conference Tuesday at the Wisconsin Brewing Company in Verona. The measure would allow wineries to stay open until 2 a.m. Right now they must close at 9 p.m. […]
The state patrol is investigating a fatal crash on Interstate 41 south of Fond du Lac. The crash happened shortly after 2pm in the northbound lanes of 41 near County Highway B. Investigators say there was one fatality. Fond du lac Fire Chief Pete O’Leary says it appears a vehicle struck a car that had slowed or stopped for a crash that happened about an hour earlier on southbound I-41 […]
A review of the records shows a Campbellsport woman who drowned in a backyard swimming pool was scheduled to make a Fond du Lac Court appearance Monday. Thirty six year old Jessica Meyer was pronounced dead at the hospital Friday, a day after she was pulled from an above ground pool in the backyard of her Campbellsport home. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says investigators are talking […]