An environmental representative on a new Climate Change Task Force says the state can have a major impact. Clean Wisconsin’s Amber Meyer Smith was named to the task force, created last week by Wisconsin governor Tony Evers. "This is really great news for Wisconsin," Meyer-Smith told WFDL news. "We have a long way to go and we don't have a long time to do it in order to start addressing Wisconsin's […]
The North Fond du Lac School Board is poised to adopt a 2020 school district budget at their meeting next week. Nobody from the public spoke at the District’s annual meeting and public hearing this week. Superintendent Aaron Sadoff says the budget includes a tax levy of a little more than $5.8 million. "I'm very proud of our budget. I'm proud of how our district is continuing to grow," Sadoff told […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's Josh Kaul has joined a multistate coalition of attorneys general investigating Facebook over antitrust issues. The bipartisan group includes attorneys general from more than 30 states as well as from the District of Columbia and Guam. The probe was announced last month . Kaul said Tuesday that he was joining it. Critics fear that Facebook can squash competitors either by buying them or mimicking their services, reducing options […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers are trying to persuade legislators to approve a bill that would fund their efforts to locate the remains of missing Wisconsin soldiers and bring them home. The bill would allow the UW-Madison Missing-In-Action Recovery and Identification Project to seek $360,000 in state tax dollars over the 2019-2021 biennium to find missing soldiers from Wisconsin. Currently federal defense officials give the project assignments and fund […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man accused of plotting a mass shooting in defense of Islam will try to convince jurors at his trial that FBI informants encouraged him to purchase weapons for the alleged attack. Attorneys for 26-year-old Samy Hamzeh plan to argue at the trial starting Wednesday that FBI agents spent months trying to entrap their client, who has no criminal record. The FBI says their agents thwarted an act […]
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities in eastern Wisconsin say they know who killed an 18-year-old woman in 1984. The Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office on Tuesday announced a suspect they believe killed Traci Hammerberg. Hammerberg was found fatally bludgeoned and partially naked in the driveway of a Town of Grafton home nearly 35 years ago. Her killer was never found. But authorities used DNA evidence and forensic genealogy to identify her killer […]
A Portage man convicted of attacking two law enforcement officers in Fond du Lac is going to prison. Fond du Lac judge Gary Sharpe sentenced 32 year old Troy Kratz to six years in prison followed by six years extended supervision. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney says he’s pleased with the sentence. "We take attacks on our law enforcement officers incredibly serious," Toney told WFDL news. Kratz was convicted […]
The Fond du Lac Public Works Department says the West Division Street railroad crossing west of Brooke Street is closed this week. The closure is currently in place and the crossing is planned to reopen Friday, October 25. The railroad crossing is closed to allow Canadian National to make repairs at the railroad crossing.
A Rubicon man is going to prison for his fifth OWI and threatening to kill a woman. Fifty four year old Earl Captain was sentenced to ten years in prison and placed on probation for three years. Captain was convicted of Operating while Under the Influence 5th offense, felony Intimidation of a Victim and Felony Bail Jumping. In October 2018, Officers arrived at Captain’s residence after receiving a phone call from a women who […]