Month: August 2019

Authorities say six people miraculously received mostly minor injuries following a chain-reaction crash involving a semi and five other vehicles on  Interstate 41 in Fond du Lac County.   Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Sergeant Ryan Zitlow told WFDL news the crash happened on southbound 41 near Townline Road shortly before 4:30pm Saturday.  Zitlow says the crash happened when traffic slowed and was moving to the passing lane to go around […]

A  ribbon-cutting ceremony for a newly constructed Fond du Lac Public Training Safety Center will be held this week. The ceremony will be held  onsite at 750 North Rolling Meadows Drive at 4:45 p.m. on Tuesday, August 13.  The facility will be used by the Fond du Lac Police Department and Fond du Lac Fire/Rescue for exercises that will better prepare personnel for emergency situations.   Fond du Lac Fire Division Chief […]

A Fond du Lac sex offender is being released back into the community.  Fond du Lac police say Christopher A. Marsh is getting out of prison August  15 after serving additional prison time after his parole was revoked in October of 2015.  Marsh had previously been released in July of 2014 after serving seven years in prison for sexually assaulting two teenage girls.  He will be living at 457 Thomas Street.   Special conditions of […]

For the second time in four weeks, the City of Fond du Lac Police Department is announcing the retirement of a veteran administrative member of the department.  Captain Pat McKeough is retiring August 12 after 29 years with the department.    Captain McKeough began his career with the Police Department in 1990 as a police officer.  Through the course of his career he was promoted up through the ranks of the Department, holding the positions of […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says doctors in Wisconsin have confirmed new cases of lung disease tied to vaping.  Health officials have confirmed a total of 12 cases and are investigating 13 other cases. The new cases include those who vaped marijuana oils, extracts or concentrates.  Patients with confirmed cases range in age from teens to 30 years old and are from Dodge, Door, Kenosha, Racine, Walworth, […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' most controversial Cabinet secretary picks has won approval from a Republican-controlled committee, but still must clear the full Senate before being confirmed.  The Senate transportation committee on Thursday voted unanimously to approve Craig Thompson as the Department of Transportation secretary. The Republican-controlled Senate must approve the pick, a vote not expected to take place until October at the earliest.  The Senate as […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State election officials fear local clerks are vulnerable to cyberattacks because they're using outdated operating systems that aren't receiving security updates.  Wisconsin Elections Commission Election Security Lead Tony Bridges writes in a memo to the commission that at least a handful of local clerks are logging into the state election system using Windows XP or Windows 7. He wrote that support for Windows XP ended in 2014 […]

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office is formally announcing that it will begin posting the names and photos of people arrested for OWI onto its Facebook page. In a letter to the public, Sheriff Dale Schimdt writes that the information is already available to the public, and that the postings will start no later than the end of the month. Schmidt says it’s a part of his department’s overall crash reduction […]

The victims of a single-vehicle crash in Washington County earlier this week were from Dodge County. 66-year-old James Allan Debny and 55-year-old Daniel Joseph Leudke, both of Fox Lake, were in a vehicle that was traveling north on I-41 in the Town of Polk on Tuesday night when that vehicle crossed the median and both lanes of traffic before slamming into a guard rail. One of the men was pronounced […]