Month: September 2017

The Wisconsin Better Business Bureau is reminding residents to continue to check your free credit report following the Equifax data breach.  This breach involves computer hackers accessing personal data including social security numbers, birth dates and potentially more information of 143 million U.S. citizens.  Susan Bach with the Appleton office of the Better Business Bureau of Wisconsin says all consumers  can determine if their personal information may have been affected […]

UW Oshkosh police say the attack of a student near campus this week is a reminder that people need to be aware of their surroundings.  A 27 year old Oshkosh man was arrested in connection with multiple incidents  Sunday including a sexual assault.    UW Oshkosh police captain Chris Tarmann says bystanders thwarted an attack of a student near Campus Sunday morning when they intervened.  Tarmann says there are a number […]

A transient worker from Texas  convicted of attacking a Waupun woman is going to prison.   At a hearing Tuesday Fond du Lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced Juan Antonio Arriaga to a total of  seven years in prison, nine months in jail and seven and a half years of extended supervision.   In July a Fond du Lac jury found  Arriaga  guilty of multiple charges including attempted kidnapping. District Attorney Eric […]

The Fond du Lac Area United Way has kicked off its 2017 fundraising campaign.  United Way executive director Amber Kilawee says the goal is $770,000.  Kilawee says the campaign started earlier this month at FondueFest followed by a Week of Caring.  Fox Valley Savings Bank and Agnesian Healthcare are this year's pacesetters.

A Berlin man  has won the second top prize of $100,000 playing the Cash Is King scratch game. Peter Resop purchased the Cash Is King ticket at Kwik Trip at 270 Broadway in Berlin.  Retailers who sell winning tickets over $599 receive an incentive of 2% of the winning ticket amount up to $100,000.  This was the last $100,000 top prize remaining in the Cash Is King scratch game.

A transient worker from Texas  convicted of attacking a Waupun woman is going to prison.   At a hearing Tuesday Fond du Lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced Juan Antonio Arriaga to a total of  seven years and nine months in prison and seven and a half years of extended supervision.    In July a Fond du Lac jury found  Arriaga  guilty of multiple charges including attempted kidnapping.  District Attorney Eric Toney […]

The Fond du Lac County District attorney says funding a staffed security checkpoint at the city county government center is about priorities.  A courthouse security committee is asking the city and county to share the estimated $250,000 cost.  But funding is not included in this year’s city or county budgets.  DA Eric Toney says most area counties have security checkpoints.  "Ozaukee county, Washington county, Winnebago county, Green Lake county, Dodge […]

A Fond du Lac Republican lawmaker says the Foxconn deal is good for the state.   Governor Scott Walker signed the nearly $3 billion economic incentive package Monday for the electronics giant.  Foxconn plans to build a massive display-screen factory in southeast Wisconsin.  The company is promising 13,000 new jobs, but Republican state reprsentative Jeremy Thiesfeldt says that will also benefit other businesses and industries in the state.  "The supply chain […]