Month: October 2020

A Beaver Dam woman is going to prison in connection with a fatal alcohol-related traffic crash.   Dodge County Circuit judge Brian Pfitzinger sentenced 24 year old Cindy Esparza to six years in prison for Homicide by Intoxicated use of a Vehicle.  Esparza will also serve 10 years on extended supervision.   Authorities say Esparza was drunk when she drove off a bridge in Beaver Dam into a river.  A passenger in the car died.  The […]

WAUPACA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused of killing a young man in a dispute over stolen reptiles has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide. Forty-four-year-old Bill Zelenski, of Waupaca, is accused of shooting the 18-year-old late Monday and the victim’s mother has been charged with being a party to the crime. Their attorney did not immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday. WLUK-TV reports that the dispute was […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump has scheduled a rally Saturday in the conservative stronghold of Waukesha, just nine days before the election. Trump’s campaign announced the rally at an airport in Waukesha on Thursday. The event comes just one week after Trump held an airport rally in Janesville. It will be Trump’s fifth visit to Wisconsin since August. His Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, campaigned twice […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump has scheduled a rally Saturday in the conservative stronghold of Waukesha, just nine days before the election. Trump’s campaign announced the rally at an airport in Waukesha on Thursday. The event comes just one week after Trump held an airport rally in Janesville. It will be Trump’s fifth visit to Wisconsin since August. His Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, campaigned twice […]

The Ferryville village clerk says a giant symbol painted on a retaining wall in the tiny Mississippi River town doesn’t represent the community.   On the wall, in white paint, is a giant Q, for QAnon, the name for a baseless set of conspiracy theories  that,  among other things, claim president Donald Trump is fighting a war against a deep-state cabal of Satan-worshipping sex-trafficking Democratic politicians.  The conspiracy theory has been labeled a domestic terrorist […]

A citizens group opposed to a business group’s development plan at Lakeside Park has officially filed a lawsuit challenging the city council’s denial of the group’s petition  to put the question on the April ballot in the form of a referendum.   The suit was filed this week in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court after the  council voted last week to deny  petitions calling for a binding referendum on future development  of the […]