Month: December 2020

Recently released emails following an open records request shows the Fond du Lac city manager was concerned early on about the lack of  involvement city staff had regarding a controversial alternative Lakeside park master plan.   A business group had pledged millions of dollars to help build a restaurant and amphitheater at Lakeside Park, asking the council to halt it’s previous decision to build a new park pavilion.   A memo from […]

A portion of East Fifth Street in Fond du Lac was closed to traffic Friday after police received reports of possible gunshots fired.  Shortly after 11am police were called to the scene after a resident reported hearing what they thought were three gunshots.   Police blocked off a portion of Fifth Street while officers canvassed the area, going to door to door looking for evidence.   There were no reports of any injuries.  Officers recovered some shell casing […]

A Fond  du lac man convicted in connection with a shooting incident on Bank Street earlier this year is going to prison..  Fond du Lac judge Richard Nuss sentenced 28 year old Vincent Riddle to three years in prison and four years extended supervision.  Riddle earlier pleaded no contest to first degree recklessly endangering safety, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and bail jumping.  Four other counts were dismissed and read into the record.  Assistant […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — President Donald Trump has lost a Wisconsin lawsuit seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots and overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the battleground state. Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek on Friday ruled against every argument Trump made challenging ballots in Wisconsin's two largest counties, saying the election was properly administered and there was no wrongdoing. Trump quickly appealed and a ruling in a separate […]

Republican congressman Glenn Grothman has introduced a bipartisan measure to provide federal pensions to covert pilots during the Korean and Vietnam war era for secret CIA operations.   Grothman introduced the Air America Act with Democratic congresswoman Carolyn Maloney of New York.  "The people who flew those airlines are not getting military pensions which is not right because they had some of the riskiest jobs in the Vietnam War,"  Grothman told WFDL news.  […]

FORT ATKINSON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Justice says State Patrol troopers shot and killed a suspect in Fort Atkinson following a pursuit. DOJ says troopers tried to pull the driver over Wednesday afternoon on Highway 26 between Watertown and Johnson Creek, but the vehicle took off. Authorities say troopers began chasing the driver who fired shots at them during the pursuit. The suspect eventually hit a spike […]