Two people were seriously injured in a two vehicle crash in Fond du lac County. On February 8th 2018 at 7:30 pm the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office along with Mt. Calvary Fire Department and Ambulance were dispatched to a two vehicle crash on County Road WH, east of Konen Road in the Township of Taycheedah. The initial investigation indicates that a west bound vehicle driven by a 35-year-old […]
One of two Fond du lac men charged in connection with the murder of a Fond du Lac man outside the Press Box tavern last fall has been arraigned Devon Neuman pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges of party to the crime of first degree intentional homicide and party to the crime of robbery in the September 23 death of Logan Foster. A second man charged in the case, Jesse […]
The Fond du Lac Police Department is one of seven law enforcement agencies in northeast Wisconsin to participate in a pilot program to prevent elderly and disabled patient abuse. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says the Safe Seniors Camera Program allows residents who suspect a care giver is abusing their loved one to use a covert camera to provide surveillance in their residence. Fond du lac County Social Services director, […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved increasing nonresident and graduate tuition at three schools next year. The regents' finance committee approved the increases Thursday, setting up a full board vote Friday. Nonresident undergraduate tuition at UW-Eau Claire would increase by $355 to $15,636. Nonresident undergraduate tuition for the materials science and engineering program would increase $391. Nonresident graduate tuition would increase $430. Nonresident […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A proposal to give Wisconsin's most rural schools nearly $7 million more and allow low-spending districts to raise property taxes without a vote has cleared a key legislative hurdle. The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee on Thursday voted unanimously to pass the bill that's backed by Gov. Scott Walker. The measure would increase the maximum that qualifying low-spending districts can spend on a combination of local property […]
A former Fond du Lac High School student has been convicted of writing a threatening note found in a hallway at Fond du Lac High School last year. At a hearing Thursday 18 year old Austin Hill pleaded no contest to party to the crime of making terrorist threats. Fond du Lac judge Dale English ordered an imposed and stayed 45 day jail sentence and a year on probation. Hill […]
A Watertown man received non life-threatening injuries in a snowmobile crash in Dodge County. It happened about 4am Thursday on Hwy. Q near Walton Road. The Sheriff’s Office says the 27 year old man was operating his snowmobile on the highway and on private property when he entered a plowed field and was thrown from the snowmobile. He was transported to Aurora Hospital in Summit with non-life-threatening injuries and arrested […]
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Oshkosh Corp. says it has been awarded an Army contract worth $476 million to build the next generation of medium tactical vehicles. A statement from the company says there's no cap on the number of vehicles the Army may purchase. The vehicles will be used to support combat missions, in relief efforts and logistics and supply operations.
A Fond du Lac County native has died in a car crash in southwestern Wisconsin. Twenty two year old Chase Galle was killed in the crash this month in Vernon County returning to his home in Platteville from National Guard Duty. Galle was raised in Brandon and graduated from Waupun High School in 2013.