Month: February 2018

Fond du Lac police are investigating several reports of gunshots fired in the city Monday night.  Police say no injuries or property damage was reported.  The first report came in shortly before 10:30pm of shots apparently fired from a vehicle in the 500 block of 4th St.   Officers found handgun shell casings in the street but did not locate any suspects or a suspect vehicle.  Initial information from witnesses indicates […]

The Waupun mayor says starting next week towers at the Waupun prison will no longer be staffed overnight.   Mayor Julie Nickel says city staff was notified by Waupun prison warden Brian Foster that beginning Monday  the towers will no longer have an officer in them from 10pm to 6am.    Nickel says she is concerned about the safety of the community.  "I have voiced my displeasure from the very beginning,"  […]

An elderly Waupun woman has been arrested following a hit and run crash.   Waupun Deputy Police Chief, Jeremy Rasch says the 88 year old woman struck a parked vehicle in the 100 block of East Jefferson Street Friday afternoon and left the scene.  "One of our officers was able to locate her.  Her vehicle was severely damaged,"  Rasch told WFDL news.  Rasch says the incident raises the question about whether […]

Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Rebecca Dallet says she is the moderate candidate for state Supreme Court.  Dallet is squaring off in the February 20 primary election against liberal Madison attorney Tim Burns and conservative Sauk County Circuit judge Michael Screnock.  Dallet says if she is elected she would handle each case on its own merits and work to make sure people’s rights are not being violated.  Dallet says both […]

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike McCabe says he is running for governor to shake up politics as usual in Madison.  McCabe spent all day Monday in Fond du Lac on the campaign trail.  " The response we're getting everywhere we go, and our campaign has traveled over 40,000 miles, the response has been fabulous,"  McCabe told AM 1170s Between the Lines program.  McCabe says his campaign is a 21st century version […]

One of three Fond du Lac residents convicted of the sexual assault of a six year old girl is going to prison.    At a hearing Monday Fond du lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced Tory Tuinstra to 13 years in prison and 15 years extended supervision.  In December Tuinstra pleaded no contest to an amended charge of second degree sexual assault of a child.   Two others, Shane Berg and Ellen […]

The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says while there has been no official word from the state, there are indications the severe flu season may have peaked.  "When you look at the data, it lags about a week, it looks like its starting to flat line,"  Public Health Officer Kim Mueller told WFDL news.   "I'm fairly confident in thinking we're there or we're almost there."   But Mueller warns […]

TWO RIVERS, Wis. (AP) — A coroner says a man and a woman from eastern Wisconsin have died from complications of the flu. Manitowoc County Coroner Curtis Green says that a 56-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman, both from Two Rivers, died over the weekend. Their names were not released. Green says the man and woman lived together. He says the man went to a hospital for treatment but the […]