Month: April 2018

A Fond du Lac native has officially launched his campaign for state  assembly.   Kevin Booth is running as a Democrat against Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt for the 52nd Assembly District seat.  "This campaign is about what we want to do and keeping that positive,"  Booth told WFDL news.  "This is not intended to be an anti-Jeremy campaign, its a pro-Kevin campaign."   Booth says his campaign is focusing on community, […]

Several arrests and citations were handed out during a drug interdiction effort in Dodge and Fond du Lac counties.  Waupun Deputy police chief Jeremy Rasch told WFDL news that 15 police officers and sheriff’s deputies and four K9 officers participated in the deployment making a total of 76 traffic stops Friday.  Rasch says three people were arrested for operating under the influence of a controlled substance, one owi, an arrest […]

Fond du lac County Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says he is  clearly the most qualified candidate for sheriff.  Waldschmidt filed  his declaration of candidacy papers this month to run for the office and held a campaign kick-off party Sunday.  He will square off against patrol deputy Mike Norton in an August Republican primary election.  Waldschmidt has been with the department since 1998, moving steadily up the ranks, and promoted to […]

Fond du lac County Sheriff’s investigators hope a newly updated sketch along with new forensic technology will help identify a homicide victim.  The Sheriff’s Office has released an updated facial reconstruction of the woman and will be using new forensic technology to try to determine her identity.   Her  remains were discovered by deer hunters in a shallow creek in the southern part of Fond du Lac County on November 23, […]

A Fond du Lac woman convicted of failing to protect a 6-year-old girl from sex crimes wants to change her plea.  At a sentencing hearing Friday 40 year old Ellen Neumann told judge Dale English she plans to file a motion to withdraw an Alford plea she entered back in January.   Under the plea Neumann ddin't admit guilt but acknowledged there was enough evidence for a conviction.  Charges of first-degree […]

The second of two Fond du Lac men facing multiple drug charges has been bound over for trial.  Ulysses Brown is charged with  two counts of delivery of cocaine and felon in possession of a firearm.  He is being held in jail on $125,000 cash bond. Marvin Miller was bound over for trial last month on charges of possession of over 40 grams of methamphetamine.  He is in jail on […]

Two men charged in the  armed robbery at a drug house in Fond du Lac have been bound over for trial.  Twenty five year old Bobby Williams of Racine is charged with eight felony counts stemming from a March 24 home invasion at a residence in the 300 block of Fourth Street.  Twenty eight year old Lakendrick Session of  Fond du Lac is charged with six drug-related offenses.  According to […]

One person was flown by Flight for Life helicopter to the hospital following a one vehicle crash on Highway 23 near St. Mary’s Springs Academy.   Troy Haase with Fond du Lac Fire and Rescue says the crash happened shortly after 8:30am Monday on  state Highway 23 and County Highway K.  Haase says the pick-up truck was westbound on 23 when it veered across the median and oncoming traffic lanes, entered […]

The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer  recent cases of severe bleeding and at least two deaths raises questions about whether synthetic cannabinoids should be legal.   The state Department of Health Services says there have been cases of severe bleeding in Wisconsin and two deaths in Illinois.  Fond du lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says hundreds of  different  synthetic cannabinoids are sold as liquids to be inhaled […]