Month: February 2020

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined 38 other states in an investigation into electronic cigarette giant Juul Labs Inc.'s marketing practices. Kaul announced he was joining the probe Tuesday. He said the investigation will focus on whether JUUL targets youth, its claims about nicotine content and statements about the safety of its products. The National Youth Tobacco Survey in 2018 found 20.8 % of high […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities say three people died in snowmobile accidents last weekend, boosting the number of deaths to 17 for the season. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources  says all three of the victims were from Illinois. The Journal Sentinel reports that two of them died after striking trees and one person was killed after being struck by another snowmobile rider, the Journal Sentinel reported. There have been nine […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The office that investigates sexual harassment complaints against Wisconsin lawmakers would no longer report to nonpartisan clerks of the state Senate and Assembly, under a move a bipartisan legislative committee is being asked to approve. Instead, the findings of its reports would go directly to lawmakers. The change was worked on behind the scenes by lawmakers before the ballot was made public Tuesday. It comes in […]

A Waupun man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl  has been bound over for trial.  Twenty five year old Patrick Benson  has waived his preliminary hearing on charges of  soliciting a child for prostitution,  causing a child to view sexual activity and attempted  possession of child pornography.   According to a criminal complaint Benson  offered a 14 year old girl vaping products in exchange for a sex act.  Benson is being held in the Fond du […]

A jury trial is scheduled for a former Waldo man who  faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in  prison if convicted of sexually assaulting a child.  A  three day jury trial is scheduled to begin May 5 for 28  year old David Duarte Alvarez  on  eight counts of  first degree child sex assault and three counts of child enticement.  A plea and sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 13.  He is accused […]

Another big Powerball winner in Fond du lac.  Hansen's BP  on West Johnson Street sold a $1 Million winning ticket for Saturday's Powerball drawing.  The ticket matched all five numbers 25-37-39-61-62 but not the Powerball number.  Hansen's BP has proven to be quite a lucky location. The store has sold 19 Badger 5 jackpot winning  tickets, one SuperCash! top prize winning ticket, and now, a $1 Million dollar Powerball ticket. Hansen's BP storied history of selling winning […]

The state Supreme Court has affirmed in part and reversed in part the drug conviction case of an over the road trucker from Kenosha convicted in the cold case murder of a  Sturdevant teenager in Fond du Lac County.  The Supreme Court reversed an appeals court ruling that Dennis Brantner could be charged twice for violations for possessing pills containing different doses of the same substance at the same time.  The court affirmed Brantner’s conviction […]

Fond du Lac Republican state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt says a projected state budget surplus is a sign of a strong economy and shows that state residents have been overtaxed.   Thiesfeldt says Democratic governor Tony Evers would be making a mistake by  vetoing a Republican-passed $250 million income tax cut plan.  "It's unfortunate that the governor would do that,"  Thiesfeldt told WFDL news.  "The best thing that could happen to that money is […]

A Fond du Lac woman is charged in connection with a fight in Illinois that injured a sheriff’s deputy.  Thirty year old Lasonte Ruthertold of Fond  du Lac is charged with resisting arrest causing injury and battery.  A Lake County sheriff’s deputy was treated at a hospital for injuries she suffered attempting to break up a fight between two women at a bar in Beach Park.  According to a complaint Lake County sheriff’s deputies were […]