A Beaver Dam woman has died from her injuries suffered in a two vehicle crash in Dodge County. The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says 71 year old Marjorie Hannon of Beaver Dam was pronounced dead at UW Hospital in Madison. She was a passenger that was involved in a collision Thursday afternoon at the intersection of Dodge County Highways A and C in the town of Fox Lake. The drivers […]
A Wisconsin man will spend the rest of his life in prison for kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents. Twenty-one-year-old Jake Patterson was sentenced Friday in Barron County. He pleaded guilty in March to two counts of intentional homicide and one count of kidnapping. He admitted to abducting Jayme in October and killing her parents, James and Denise Closs. The teen was held captive in a remote cabin […]
Damage totals from the March 14 flood are in excess of $200,000 in the city of Fond du Lac. City manager Joe Moore told the Fond du Lac City council this week the city’s application with Wisconsin Emergency Management for state public assistance lists damage totals at $204,410. Moore says that includes $142,000 for debris clearance, $61,000 for protective measures, and $1,430 for roads and bridges. Moore says he is […]
Walleye Weekend has announced that Molly Jaster and Terry Davis are the co-chairs for this summer’s Walleye Weekend Festival. Jaster has been a Fond du Lac Festivals board member for over six years and is the current president of the board of directors. She works full-time at Marian University as the Director of Development and Annual Giving. Davis is a previous co-chair for Walleye Weekend and is vice president of […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's K-12 schools would receive $500 million over the next two years, including nearly $100 million more for special education, under a Republican funding plan approved Thursday by the Legislature's budget committee. The deal puts the Republican-controlled Legislature at odds with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers who decried it as inadequate compared to his $1.4 billion proposal but stopped short of promising a veto. The funding plan […]
The Fond du Lac County Emergency Management director says this week’s wind storm is perfect example of why its important for residents to have weather radios. High winds swept through the county early Wednesday morning toppling trees and power lines. Emergency management director Bobbie Hicken says if there had been a tornado or severe thunderstorm, a weather radio will sound an alert. "The time of the night is a big […]
Area law enforcement is out in force this holiday weekend as motorists head out for the long Memorial Day holiday weekend. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says the Sheriff’s Office is participating in the annual Click it or Ticket seatbelt enforcement campaign to get people to buckle up. Waldschmidt says the good news is there isn’t a lot of construction on the major highways in this part of […]
A Beaver Dam woman was critically injured in a two vehicle crash in Dodge County. The crash happened Thursday afternoon on County A at County C in the Township of Fox Lake. The Sheriff’s Office says a truck failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with a vehicle at the intersection of County Highways A and C in the town of Fox Lake. A passenger in the vehicle, […]
The chairman of the Assembly Corrections committee says a proposed pay increase for correctional officers is part of a comprehensive plan to address security issues in the state’s correctional system. Republicans on the Jt. Finance Committee this week approved a plan that will provide pay increases for corrections officers up to $19 an hour. Republican state representative Michael Schraa says he believes the pay increase will have an impact on […]