One of three Fond du lac residents convicted in the sexual assault of a six year old girl is going to prison. At a hearing Tuesday Fond du Lac judge Gary Sharpe sentenced 41 year old Shane Berg to 18 years in prison followed by 15 years of extended supervision. Berg pleaded no contest in January to a reduced charge of second degree sexual assault of a child. Eighteen year […]
A Sun Prairie woman is going to prison for dealing heroin in Dodge County. Judge Steven Bauer sentenced Rozanne Sobrevilla to seven years in prison and four years extended supervision. Sobrevilla pled guilty to Manufacture/Deliver Heroin in December 2017. Investigators say Sobrevilla sold $1000 worth of heroin to a police informant during two sales in Beaver Dam.
A Fond du Lac High School star football player has been selected to participate in the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association All-Star Charity football game. Defensive end Garret Sphatt was one of several players from across the state nominated by their coach to play in the game. In return the players have to raise at least $750 in funds for Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin and Sphatt's goal is $5000. "I […]
A silent vigil ceremony will be held Tuesday for Fond du Lac police officer Craig Birkholz who was shot and killed in the line of duty. The ceremony will be held at the Police and Fire Memorial at Hamilton Park starting at 6:15am. Birkoholz was killed while responding a domestic incident at a Lincoln Avenue residence March 20, 2011. When Officer Birkholz arrived, he and a second officer approached the […]
Nobody was injured in a fire that damaged a Fond du Lac home that was divided up into apartments. Shortly before 5pm Monday fire crews responded to 30 E. 10th St. lower unit and found a fire in the kitchen. The fire was quickly extinguished but not before the fire caused smoke and heat damage to the unit. As a result, the home is uninhabitable until repairs are made. There […]
One person has died after his truck broke through the ice on Beaver Dam Lake The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says a 52 year old man was pronounced dead by the Dodge County Medical Examiner. Rescue personnel were called to the scene at the Hickory Point Road boat launch ramp shortly before 7am Monday for a report of a truck partially submerged in the lake. One person was pulled from […]
Three people were seriously injured in a three vehicle crash in Fox Lake Monday afternoon. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says a car was traveling north on Cth A when it crossed the center line striking a southbound semi tractor trailer and a second car. The female driver of the first car was flown from the scene by Flight for Life to UW Madison. The male driver of the third […]
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A teen accused of fatally stabbing a classmate at a Kenosha high school will face trial as an adult. Kenosha County Circuit Court Judge Mary Wagner denied a motion Monday to move Timothy Carson to juvenile court. He was 15 when he was charged with second-degree intentional homicide and automatically moved to adult court in the death of Dezjon Taylor at Bradford High School in April […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly Education Committee has scheduled a public hearing on Gov. Scott Walker's $100 million school safety plan and other related proposals. The hearing Tuesday comes as the Assembly is expected to pass the bills in a special session Thursday. But the Senate may take a different approach, a move that could kill the measures. Walker, Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch and Attorney General Brad Schimel […]