Month: December 2017

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is investigating two hit and run crashes on snow covered roads Wednesday.   Sheriff’s  Captain Ryan Waldschmidt says one of the crashes happened near Brandon and the other on Winnebago Drive.  Waldschmidt says in both instances the hit and run vehicles left the road.   One vehicle knocked over a mailbox and the other  vehicle struck a building. Waldschmidt says  there were no injuries reported […]

A Fond du Lac teenager accused of sexually assaulting children has been bound over for trial.   Seventeen year old Marquez Jackson waived his preliminary hearing Thursday in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court to 20 charges including sexual assault of a child,  strangulation-suffocation, child enticement and exposing genitals to a child.  Jackson is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on $100,000 cash bond.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan says he's not leaving Congress anytime soon. The Wisconsin Republican was asked Thursday about two published reports suggesting he might leave his job soon after the GOP passes a rewrite of the U.S. tax code.  Asked by a reporter if he's quitting anytime soon, Ryan chuckled and said, "I'm not. No."   Ryan spoke as Politico and the Huffington Post published reports speculating that […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that destroyed a tractor at a Fond du lac County farm.   Firefighters were called to the Dennis Binning residence on Highway T in the town of Lamartine Thursday afternoon for a report of a tractor on fire inside of a shed.   The tractor is a total loss.  The shed received some damage as a result of the fire. The fire is not of a […]

No serious injuries were reported in several crashes on Interstate 41 in Fond du Lac County Thursday afternoon.   Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says all of the crashes were on I-41 south of Fond du Lac between County Highways B and Y.   "The snow overnight was light and fluffy and it was blowing across the highway and icing up,"   Waldschmidt told WFDL news.  "It started with a semi rollover near Highway […]

Several minor vehicle crashes and run-offs were reported yesterday in the city of Fond du Lac and Fond du  Lac County.  More than a dozen crashes were reported in the city of Fond du Lac and there were five crashes in the county between 3pm and 11pm last night.  Two and a half inches of snow was reported in the Fond du lac area with higher amounts to the northeast.

The Fond du Lac fire chief says he is disappointed that Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has issued a legal opinion that state regulators can’t enforce a rule requiring sprinklers in apartment buildings with more than four units.   Schimel issued a legal opinion Friday that says the requirement is stricter than state law and can’t be enforced.   Fond du Lac Fire Chief Pete O’Leary says the rule is one of […]

A retired Ripon College political science professor says the defeat of Roy Moore in the Alabama election this week is a defeat for President Donald Trump and Republican strategist Steve Bannon.  Marty Farrell ays Trump should be nervous ahead of the mid term elections in 2018.  "He (Trump) decided to go all in with Roy Moore and failed,"  Farrell told AM 1170s Between the Lines program.  "Its definately a big […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is offering a blunt assessment of why scandal-plagued Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore lost.  Johnson told reporters Wednesday that "Alabamians didn't want somebody who dated 14-year-old girls."  Moore has faced allegations of sexual misconduct with teenagers when he was in his 30s. Moore denied the allegations, but they helped fuel his defeat to Democrat Doug Jones in deeply Republican Alabama.  Democratic […]