A Chilton man was arrested following a high speed chase in Fond du Lac County. The six mile chase started at 11:32pm Sunday when a sheriff’s deputy attempted to pull over a speeding vehicle on Hwy 151 near Schaefer Dr. in the Town of Lamartine. The driver continued northbound on 151 until the car ran over stop sticks that had been placed on the road. The driver was taken into […]
Nobody was injured in a fire that caused minor damage to a Fond du Lac County home. Shortly after 11:30pm Sunday a passerby called to report smoke visible from the garage of the home at W3858 Silica Road and could hear a woman in the residence call for help. Firefighters were able to get the woman out of the house and quickly extinguish a small fire. The 47-year-old female occupant […]
Snow, sleet and freezing rain are making travel challenging on this Presidents Day. An ice storm warning has been downgraded to a winter weather advisory for several central Wisconsin counties including Fond du Lac, Dodge and Sheboygan counties this evening through tomorrow afternoon. National Weather Service meteorologist Ben Herzog says the ice accumulation is now less than originally anticipated. Lori Getter with Wisconsin Emergency Management says far southeastern Wisconsin could […]
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A new report says that Wisconsin has some of the highest electricity prices in the country despite the average customer spending far less on the utility than in most states. The U.S. Energy Information Administration released the data that shows the average residential price for a kilowatt of electricity in Wisconsin was just more than 10 cents in 2016. Only 15 states had higher residential […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Records show that Wisconsin had its fewest bankruptcy filings in a decade last year. U.S. Bankruptcy Court figures show that filings decreased to 16,769 in 2017 from 16,835 in 2016. That continued a downward trend that started after the peak of almost 30,000 filings in 2010. Most of the bankruptcy petitions in Wisconsin were Chapter 7 filings, the type intended to give people a fresh start by […]
Two people received minor injuries in a chain reaction three vehicle crash on Interstate 41 in Fond du Lac County. The crash happened shortly after 5:30pm Friday on 41 at County Highway OO. Investigators say a car had stopped for a jack-knifed semi-trailer when it was rear ended by a vehicle, which was struck by a third vehicle. The driver of the first car had to be extricated from the […]
Fond du Lac Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt has apologized for a tweet that romanticized the good old days when kids took their rifles to school. The tweet was posted Thursday evening and taken down a short time later. It said: "Flashback 30 years: when guns were in schools...and nothing happened" and linked to an article on the conservative website PJ Media. "The millennial generation might be surprised to learn […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police now say several newborns were injured in an intensive care unit at a Wisconsin hospital. Authorities earlier said there were "several unexplained injuries" in the newborn intensive care unit at Meriter Hospital in Madison. Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain said the injuries involve "several" infants. He declined to say the exact number. A spokeswoman for the hospital also declined to say how many infants were […]
The Waupun K9 officer helped track down a suspect who fled following an attempted traffic stop in Green Lake County. Waupun deputy police chief Jeremy Rasch says K9 Boomer and Officer Ryan Schneider assisted the Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office in attempting to located the man. The K9 tracked the scent and officer Schneider followed the tracks of the suspect to a local landscape company where it was learned a […]