Month: July 2020

A Fond du Lac man convicted in connection with a shooting incident last  year outside a Fond du Lac tavern is going to prison.   Fond du Lac judge Robert Wirtz sentenced 26 year old Mohamed Elmhdati to nine years in prison followed by nine years of extended supervision.  Elmhdati was earlier convicted of multiple charges including first degree reckless injury with a dangerous weapon.   A jury found Elmhdati not guilty of attempted homicide and […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence is stepping up attacks on Joe Biden, casting the election in under four months as a choice “between freedom and opportunity and socialism and decline.” Pence made the aggressive attack on Biden at a speech Friday in Ripon, Wisconsin, birthplace of the Republican Party. Pence is drawing sharp contrasts between President Donald Trump’s vision for the country and that of Biden and […]

Fond du Lac police do not suspect foul play  in the death of a Fond du Lac man who was found on a sidewalk Thursday morning.   Shortly after 5am Thursday police and rescue personnel were called to the area of South National Ave just north of the National Avenue Fire  Station  for a report of a male subject found lying unresponsive  on the sidewalk.  Officers arriving on the scene determined the subject was deceased.  […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that destroyed a garage in Fond du Lac.  Shortly after 4:30am a police officer on routine patrol noticed a plume of smoke and found the fire at 253 Linden Street and called dispatch. Firefighters extinguished the fire, preventing it from spreading to nearby structures. photo:fdl fire and rescue

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The warden of a maximum-security prison has resigned and 11 other workers have resigned, been suspended or fired in connection with an April escape. The state Department of Corrections spokesman John Beard said Thursday that Columbia Correctional Institution Warden Susan Novak resigned June 29. Kitchen worker Holly Zimdahl resigned and two correctional officers have also resigned. Seven employees have been fired and one has been suspended […]

Parents would have the option of having their child continue with online learning under a plan to reopen schools in North Fond du Lac.   Dubbed  "Return to the Nest,"  superintendent Aaron Sadoff , says the plan has two goals…safety, and achievement and growth.  Sadoff says the district is designing instruction for two models, including the option for parents to enroll their students in the 100 percent virtual eOriole Academy.   The […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new report says outside groups and the three candidates combined to spend a record $10 million in the state Supreme Court election this spring. The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign released an analysis Thursday that found the three candidates, liberals Jill Karofsky and Ed Fallone, and conservative incumbent Daniel Kelly, together spent just over $5 million, which is a record. Karofsky, who won the seat, spent $2.7 […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s unemployment rate dropped to 8.5% in June. That good news came Thursday as Democratic lawmakers released proposals to remove obstacles and broaden access to unemployment benefits and Gov. Tony Evers’ administration temporarily reassigned 100 state workers to help address a backlog in claims. The Department of Workforce Development has struggled to process the claims of everyone seeking unemployment. Currently about 141,000 people were awaiting payments. […]