Month: April 2021

A Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s deputy received minor injuries after being dragged by a vehicle while conducting a traffic stop.  The incident happened shortly after 8:30pm Thursday on Interstate 41 near County Highway B after the deputy pulled a vehicle over for traveling without working taillights.  The deputy asked for back-up after detecting an odor of  marijuana and two state patrol troopers arrived on the scene.   The driver cooperated with orders and exited the […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff Dive Team has recovered  the body of a second canoer who drowned in rough water on Lake Winnebago Monday night.   Divers recovered the body of Michael Gohde Thursday afternoon, in the same area where the body of Dakota Goldapske was recovered  late Wednesday afternoon after sonar detected a couple of images on the bottom of the lake about a mile north of Lakeside West.  […]

President Joe Biden wants $2 trillion to reengineer America’s infrastructure and expects the nation’s corporations to pay for it. The Democratic president unveiled plans this week for what would be a hard-hatted transformation of the U.S. economy. It includes $621 billion for roads, bridges and transportation infrastructure.  Retired Ripon College economist Paul Schoofs says it would be one of the most ambitious spending plans on infrastructure in 50 years.  "In […]

The state Department of Natural Resources has asked the city of Fond du Lac to hold off on any construction on lighthouse point at Lakeside Park.   A spokesman for the group Friends of Lakeside Park, John Papenheim, says the DNR is taking a second look at a proposal to build a restaurant on the peninsula after learning that area may have once been part of Lake Winnebago.  "The thing in […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative law firm is demanding state corrections officials relax their COVID-19 protocols and allow ministers to visit prison inmates. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty sent a letter Thursday to Department of Corrections Secretary Kevin Carr complaining that the department's no-visitors policy includes volunteer ministers and therefore violates inmates' right to exercise their religion under Wisconsin law and the U.S. Constitution. The firm demands […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alex Lasry said Thursday that his campaign had raised more than $1 million since he got in the race in mid-February. Lasry is running for the seat currently held by Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, who has not yet said whether he will seek a third term in 2022. Johnson previously said he wouldn’t run for a third term, but has […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is seeking more than $250,000 in legal fees from former President Donald Trump and a Republican Party official related to fighting a pair of election lawsuits filed last year.  Evers made the request in two different federal courts on Wednesday. If Evers is successful, Trump would have to pay more than $145,000 in one case. In the other, the chairman of […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin superintendent candidate Jill Underly is accusing her opponent Deborah Kerr of being transphobic because Kerr supports prohibiting transgender students from playing on girls teams. The spirited back and forth came Thursday during a virtual question and answer session hosted by the Milwaukee Press Association just five days before Tuesday’s election. The winner will serve a four-year term as secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Public […]

The body of one of two Fond du Lac men who fell out of a canoe on Lake Winnebago Sunday night has been recovered.   Using sonar devices members of the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office Dive Team recovered the body late Wednesday afternoon in the area they were focusing their search.   With the dark conditions after sunset, combined with continued strong winds, below freezing temperatures, and turbulent waters, the search for the second […]