Month: September 2021

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican attorney who worked in former President Donald Trump’s administration and who falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen in Wisconsin appears to have been hired to help with the taxpayer-funded investigation into how the election was run. Andrew Kloster was listed as the author of a letter signed by lead investigator Michael Gableman, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, sent to county election clerks […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has rejected a request by Republican legislators and a hunting group to join a lawsuit seeking to remove the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources board's chairman from his post. Fred Prehn's term ended in May. Gov. Tony Evers has appointed Sandra Naas to replace him but Prehn says he won't leave until the Senate confirms her. Republicans control that house and they've made no […]

A Beaver Dam man convicted in connection with a fatal drug-related car crash more than two years ago is going to prison.   Dodge County judge Martin De Vries has sentenced 36 year old  Dustin Vandergailen to 21 and a half years in prison and 19 years extended supervision.   Earlier this year Vandergailen pled no  contest  to multiple charges including Homicide by Vehicle –Use of Controlled Substance 2nd or subsequent offense.   According to a criminal complaint […]

The president of Envision Greater Fond du Lac says the economic development agency plans to participate in a new workforce innovation grant program.  Applications are now open for grants of up to $10 million to local and regional projects that are designed to meet the state’s next generation workforce needs.  Envision president Sadie Parafiniuk says Envision is exploring a partnership with New North as well as working with surrounding counties.  Parafiniuk says […]

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office is joining other Sheriff’s offices around the state to provide hurricane relief to sheriff’s employees in Louisiana following Hurricane Ida.   The Sheriff’s Office is participating in the Wisconsin Badger State Sheriff’s Association’s  Sheriff’s Adopting Sheriff’s program.   Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt says a charity softball game will be held next month between members of the Sheriff’s Office and Beaver Dam Police Department with all of the proceeds  from […]

Police are looking for a 23 year old Fond du Lac man following a short high speed chase in the city of Fond du Lac.  The chase started shortly before 9pm Tuesday when a sheriff’s deputy attempted to stop a vehicle on North Park Avenue and McWilliams Street that left the scene of a domestic incident in the City of Fond du Lac. The suspect vehicle fled  at one point […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin election clerks are reacting with a mixture of concern and confusion to the first inquiry made by a special investigator hired by Republicans to examine how the 2020 presidential election was run in the battleground state. Based on an Associated Press survey of all 72 county election clerks, the Monday email from the lead investigator landed in the junk folders of at least seven counties, […]