A Fond du Lac man has been arrested for his fifth drunken driving offense. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office and Wisconsin State Patrol responded last week to a crash on Kinker Road west of Highway 45 for a vehicle that struck a piece of Fond du lac County Highway Department equipment. A highway crew worker had leapt from the piece of machinery just before it was struck by the […]
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh has named Erin Grisham as its new vice chancellor for Student Affairs. She will begin her duties on Jan. 3. Grisham comes to Oshkosh after more than 20 years at Northern Arizona University in roles of increasing leadership responsibility, most recently as vice president for Student Affairs.
Following the deadly parade attack in Waukesha Fond du Lac police stepped up their presence and restricted traffic for Saturday's annual Christmas Parade of Lights. Fond du Lac residents lined Main Street in downtown Fond du Lac over the weekend for the annual parade. Police Chief Aaron Goldstein says the police department worked collaboratively with the parade organizer, FDL Fire/Rescue, FDL Department of Public Works, WI State Patrol, and the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed five Republican-authored anti-abortion bills, a move that came two days after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that could curtail if not end a woman’s right to abortion. Evers is making his support for abortion rights a key plank of his 2022 reelection campaign. He was widely expected to veto the measures the GOP-controlled Legislature passed […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A liberal group has asked a judge to find Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in contempt of court for not following a November court order to turn over records about a secretive review of the 2020 election that Republicans have been conducting for months. American Oversight, which sued to get the records, filed the motion for contempt in Dane County circuit court on Friday. Judge Valerie […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A six-story condominium building has been evacuated in a Milwaukee suburb after engineers found the structure was in imminent danger of collapsing. Police and firefighters cleared the 48-unit Horizon West condominium building in Waukesha on Thursday night after an engineering report said its structural columns were compromised. Police Lt. Kevin Rice said the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, that killed nearly 100 people in June was […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Milwaukee County's top prosecutor says a young assistant in his office sought $1,000 bail for a man later accused of driving through a Christmas parade because she was overworked and never saw his risk assessment. Darrell Brooks Jr. posted bail in a domestic violence case on Nov. 19. Two days later he allegedly drove his SUV through the parade in suburban Waukesha, killing six people. District […]
Candidates for public office are circulating nomination papers for the spring election starting this week. Voters will be going to the polls in April to elect candidates for city council, school board, county board and other municipal offices. There's also two seats for the District Two Court of Appeals on the ballot and circuit court judge. Fond du Lac County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says four incumbent county board supervisors are not seeking re-election. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The family of a leukemia patient who contracted Legionnaires’ disease at UW Hospital in 2018 has filed a lawsuit seeking damages in his death. Siblings of 66-year-old Dennis Frye filed a wrongful death lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court alleging the hospital was negligent because its water supply was contaminated. Hospital officials announced the outbreak in November 2018 and have since taken steps to prevent it […]