One of two people convicted in connection with a series of credit card fraud and skimming incidents in Fond du Lac is going to prison. At a hearing Friday afternoon in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court Fond du Lac judge Robert Wirtz sentenced 35 year old Catalin Capanu to six years in prison and six years extended supervision. Capanu was convicted of wire fraud and theft from a financial institution. A second person, Preda […]
Shawn Fisher has been named as the new executive director of the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation and The Foundation for Ripon Medical Center effective immediately. She is assuming responsibilities previously held by Holly Brenner, who has transitioned to the role of regional vice president - Marketing, Communications & Foundations for SSM Health of Wisconsin. Brenner will continue to oversee the Agnesian HealthCare and Ripon Medical Center Foundations in addition to four […]
A Fond du Lac woman was arrested following a drug bust at a Fond du lac apartment complex. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says police assisted the Lake Winnebago Metropolitan Enforcement Group Drug Unit Thursday in executing three search warrants at the Maplewood Commons apartments on Martin Avenue. A 28 year old Fond du Lac woman was arrested for possession with intent to distribute meth and maintaining a drug dwelling. In addition to meth, […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are pursuing changes in state law to ban labeling food as meat, milk or dairy if they don't contain those products. A state Senate committee held a hearing Thursday on the proposals that bill sponsors argue is needed to protect Wisconsin's agriculture and dairy industries from what they argue is misleading food labeling. Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin has pursued similar legislation at the federal […]
A Beaver Dam woman is charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the February death of her two year-old son. Twenty seven year old Amanda Trost made her initial court appearance this week. According to the criminal complaint, Beaver Dam police were called to Trost’s residence in February for a report that her son was not breathing. The child was pronounced dead at a hospital. An autopsy determined his cause of death was […]
A 21-year-old Ixonia woman has been convicted of helping a convicted killer hide a Beaver Dam man’s body at the Dodge County property where she lived. Dakota Schlesner was found guilty of aiding a felon in Dodge County Circuit Court. She faces up to one and a half years in prison when she is sentenced in January. Schlesner was initially charged with party to a crime of hiding a corpse. Twenty one year old Nigel Schultz […]
The Fond du Lac city manager says the overall tax rate will be down in a proposed 2020 budget. Nobody spoke at a public hearing during Wednesday night’s Fond du Lac city council meeting. City Manager Joe Moore says the budget does not include an additional ambulance crew, or six new positions as requested by the fire chief. Moore says with revenue limits, the city can’t afford to do that at this […]
Fond du lac police are investigating a reported sexual assault of a teenage girl at Lakeside Park. A woman told police that her 14 year old daughter told her that on October 14 a man told her to get into his vehicle and he sexually assaulted her. The mother said her daughter reported it to school officials but they told her to report it to police. She says the incident occurred east of […]
Kwik Trip has launched online ordering and delivery on EatStreet for 11 stores throughout Fond Du Lac, Oshkosh and Sheboygan. The service is available for more than 400 items and comes on the heels of Kwik Trip and EatStreet launching delivery in several other cities, including Appleton and Green Bay. According to a company press release the two Wisconsin-based companies came together after years of customer inquiries into when Kwik Trip would launch delivery. […]