Hundreds of people lined Main Street in downtown Fond du Lac Saturday for the annual St. Patrick's Day parade. The parade started on the corner of Rees and Main Street traveling south to Veterans Park. There were 42 entries in this year’s parade.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has made a two-day swing through Wisconsin to help motivate voters to support Rebecca Dallet for state Supreme Court. Holder was in Milwaukee on Thursday and on Friday he hosted a forum on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Also on Friday, the Wisconsin Republican Party asked the state Judicial Commission to launch an investigation into Dallet's acceptance of campaign donations […]
Learning to be more inclusive and respectful of individual differences is the goal of a one-day conference at UW Fond du Lac this month. The Anti-Bullying and Celebrate Diversity Institute is free and open to the public. The conference will engage participants in discussion on topics such as religion, race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual identity. The conference will be held on Friday March 30 at the University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Former Wisconsin Attorney General Bronson La Follette has died at age 82. Joyce-Ryan Funeral Home, in Madison, said funeral arrangements for La Follette were being finalized Friday. La Follette, who passed away Thursday, was first elected attorney general in 1964 and served two consecutive 2-year terms. He was elected again in 1976 and served three 4-year terms. He ran for governor in 1968 but lost to […]
Fond du Lac County continues to fall near the middle of the pack when it comes to overall health of residents. The county ranked 37 out of 72 counties for health outcomes and 19 for health factors according to the latest County Health Rankings released by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and UW Population Health Institute. County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says Fond du Lac ranked 22 when it […]
A man wanted for a stabbing in Madison has been arrested in Fond du Lac County. Sheriff’s deputies responded Thursday to the area of Mulletview Rd. and Mushroom Rd. for a report of a suspicious man running through a field on private property. A little less than an hour later deputies made contact with a subject matching the description near the intersection of Highway B and Mushroom Rd. Thirty seven […]
BEAVER DAM, Wis. (AP) — Firefighters burned down a Beaver Dam apartment building where a fatal explosion took place last week. Authorities set a controlled fire Thursday to burn the chemicals that cannot be removed because of their volatility. Those who lived in the building were not allowed to return to retrieve any belongings or keepsakes because of the danger of another explosion. About 20 area fire departments with at […]
Funeral services were held Thursday in Madison for a Beaver Dam man killed in an apartment explosion. Reverand Jerry Marsden conducted the funeral services for Benjamin Morrow. In an exclusive interview on AM 1170s Between the Lines program, Marsden says he doesn’t believe Morrow was making bombs. "Impossible. Its just impossible that he was involved in that," Marsden told AM 1170s Between the Lines program. "He's not involved in extremist […]
The Fond du Lac County Clerk says she will be participating in training to bolster election security. Clerk Lisa Freiberg will be involved in training local clerks how to protect passwords and avoid other computer hacking attempts. Freiberg says the concern is protecting the voter information system. The Wisconsin Elections Commission is working with cyber-security specialists from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for a two-week risk-assessment test in May […]