The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer is reminding residents to take necessary precautions with the coldest air of the season blanketing Wisconsin. The forecast calls for overnight lows below zero with high temps in the single digits through this week and dangerously cold windchills. "If you are going out and about please bundle up and cover those extremities," Mueller told WFDL news. Mueller says there are shelters available […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed the first bill passed by the Legislature to address the coronavirus pandemic in 10 months, a Republican-backed measure that Democrats say would do nothing to combat the virus or help reopen the state. Evers vetoed the bill shortly after the Senate voted along party lines Friday sending it to him. Evers called on the Legislature to pass a version he can […]
The Fond du Lac Ethics Board is expected to make a decision within a week following a day long hearing for a Fond du lac city councilmember accused of violating the city’s ethics code. The board heard testimony Friday on whether Ben Giles violated three sections of the Code: Dedicated Service, Fair and Equal Treatment and Conflict of Interest. In closing arguments the attorney for the city, Tony Renning, says while there was no […]
Fond du Lac police are investigating a shooting incident that sent a Fond du Lac man to the hospital. Early Friday morning police officers responded to a crash involving a car striking a light pole and several parking meters. The driver, a 39 year old Fond du Lac man, was found unresponsive but breathing and transported to St. Agnes Hospital. At the hospital doctors discovered the victim had a gunshot wound to his leg. He was […]
KEWASKUM, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin sheriff’s office says a man who forced his way into two homes in the town of Kewaskum earlier this week fatally shot two men in their 70s with their own guns before he was killed in a shootout with a deputy. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office says on Wednesday afternoon, a 30-year-old West Bend man crashed a stolen car. He then forced his way […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge will hold a hearing this week on whether to arrest or increase bail for Kyle Rittenhouse. The hearing comes after the 18-year-old from Illinois who’s accused of killing two people and wounding a third during a police brutality protest in Wisconsin last summer allegedly failed to update his address with the court. Rittenhouse's attorneys say he moved into an undisclosed “safe house” after […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers says his two-year state budget will include $43 million in spending designed to help the state’s rural economy. The Democratic Evers will submit his budget to the Republican-controlled Legislature on Feb. 16, which will take the next several months rewriting it before passing their version sometime in the summer. Evers’ plan released Friday includes many of the recommendations made by a commission he […]
The Fond du Lac Ethics Board holds a formal hearing Friday to determine whether a Fond du Lac city councilmember violated the city’s ethics code. Last November the board found probable cause that councilmember Ben Giles violated the code’s sections of Dedicated Service, Fair and Equal Treatment and Conflict of Interest. One question is whether Giles received a reward for his votes in favor of development at Lakeside Park when mutual donors of Lakeside Forward […]
GRAND CHUTE, Wis. (AP) — A teen wanted in connection with the fatal shooting at a mall in eastern Wisconsin has been arrested in Iowa. The Grand Chute Police Department announced U.S. Marshals arrested 17-year-old Dezman Ellis on Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa. Ellis’ arrest comes days after authorities say he fatally shot 19-year-old Jovanni Frausto of Neenah and wounded another person inside the Fox River Mall outside Appleton. Outagamie […]