Month: May 2019

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is assisting Oshkosh police in the search of  an Oshkosh man described as missing and endangered.  The Sheriff’s Office says they are looking for Andrew Hildebrand.  His vehicle was located at the Auburn Lake boat launch parking lot in southeast Fond du lac County May 14.  An extensive  ground and aerial search of the area last week was unable to locate Hildebrand.  The […]

OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Oshkosh police say a body has been recovered from a vehicle submerged in Lake Winnebago.  Police say they were notified Monday that there was damage to the railing at the Bowen Street fishing dock, indicating a vehicle may have plunged into the lake.  Oshkosh Fire Department divers did an initial search, but didn't find anything. The Winnebago County Sheriff's Department divers were called, did a search […]

The City of Fond Du Lac Municipal Service Center is partnering with Universal Recycling Technologies to offer a one week electronic recycling event this week. Public Works director Jordan Skiff says you can drop off electronics items at the Municipal Service  Center Bulky Waste Drop-Off Site at  530 Doty Street during regular hours of operation for City of Fond Du Lac Residents only.   The program runs through Saturday.  Payment for […]

Motorists will be hitting the road later this week for the unofficial start of  the summer vacation season.  AAA is forecasting  the second highest travel volume on record  for the upcoming Memorial Day Holiday weekend.  State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmuscz says nearly 43 million Americans will kick off the summer travel season with a Memorial Day vacation, and says drive times could be more than three times longer than normal.   […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican legislators plan to intervene in a new lawsuit challenging restrictions on public workers' unions.  GOP lawmakers passed a law known as Act 10 in 2011 that stripped almost all public workers of their collective bargaining rights.  Two chapters of the International Union of Operating Engineers filed a federal lawsuit May 3 in Milwaukee alleging the act violates free speech guarantees. The lawsuit names Democratic Attorney […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders are thinking about splitting the state budget into two bills.  Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald tell Wispoltiics.com that the GOP is considering splitting the budget into one bill that deals with spending and another with Republican policy items.  Democratic Gov. Tony Evers could use his partial veto powers to rewrite the fiscal bill but would either have to […]

APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Residents of a Wisconsin city have paid their final respects to a firefighter who was killed after a shootout occurred between police and a suspect.  Hundreds lined a procession route for Mitch Lundgaard, 36, that wound through Appleton on Monday, starting at a funeral home and ending at Appleton Alliance Church, where a visitation was held. Lundgaard was taken back to the funeral home following an […]

A Fond du Lac woman who was pulled unconscious from a burning house Sunday afternoon has died.  Division Chief of Fire Prevention Troy Haase says the woman the woman was pronounced dead at the hospital and an autopsy will be conducted to determine if she died from smoke inhalation.  Firefighters were called to the scene at 29 Woods Place Sunday afternoon and found the woman in a bedroom  during a […]

The National Weather Service says this weekend’s snowstorm in northern Wisconsin is unusual but not unheard of in Wisconsin.  Several inches of snow was reported across several northern Wisconsin counties Sunday, including nearly six inches in Poplar.  National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Collar says summer like weather is in the forecast this week.   "We're looking at some real summer weather returning here especially as we get into the second half […]