Month: January 2022

The Fond du Lac Police Department has a new detective.  Police Chief  Aaron Goldstein has announced  officer Christopher Deering has been promoted to detective.  Deering  was hired as a police officer in 2012.   Deering is a member of the Department's  Domestic Violence Intervention Team,  certified as a Drug Recognition Expert  and  the department’s Drone and Robot Unit Coordinator.  In his most recent assignment Detective Deering was assigned to the Street Crimes Unit and Lake Winnebago Area […]

Inattentive driving is being blamed for a two vehicle crash in Fond du Lac County that sent two people the hospital with minor injuries.  The crash happened shortly after 6:30am Monday on Highway 26 north of Griffith Road in the town of Rosendale.  An investigation showed that a northbound vehicle was making a left turn into a driveway  on Highway 26 when it was struck from behind by another vehicle.   The driver of […]

TOWN OF LESSOR, Wis. (AP) — A third man has died as the result of a garage explosion that also injured a fourth person in northeastern Wisconsin. Shawano County sheriff’s officials say two people died at the scene of the explosion on Friday in the Town of Lessor. Authorities have identified them as 52-year-old Timothy Cook, Sr., of Oshkosh, and 49-year-old Kendrick Larson, of Neenah. The sheriff’s office says 60-year-old […]

Traffic will be restricted at a busy Fond du Lac intersection for several days starting Tuesday.  Lane  restrictions will begin on East Division Street west of Park Avenue.  Two-way traffic will be maintained on Division Street with  the eastbound left turn lane  utilized as a designated traffic lane for westbound traffic.  Eastbound left turns from Division to Park will be restricted and the travel lanes will be narrowed.  The restrictions will be in place for […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A 16-year-old Milwaukee Burger King worker is dead after someone apparently shot her through the drive-thru window. Niesha Harris-Brazell was shot about 10:30 p.m. Sunday. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Police released surveillance footage Monday that shows the suspect leaning into the drive-thru window from a Chevrolet Impala holding a gun. Investigators believe the shooting was part of a robbery. The […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Several shootings in Milwaukee during the morning hours of New Year’s Day prompted the city’s acting mayor to immediately call for reducing violence in 2022. A 40-year-old man was killed and at least two other people were injured in separate shootings Saturday morning. One of the injured was a 9-year-old boy. Milwaukee Acting Mayor Cavalier Johnson called it “an unacceptable continuation of the gun violence that marred […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the leaders of the Legislature's rules committee is demanding that the Wisconsin Elections Commission publish emergency regulations governing absentee ballot drop boxes and corrections to absentee ballot information by early February. Republican Sen. Steve Nass made the demand Thursday. He wants the commission to publish rules codifying guidance to local clerks in March 2020 expanding the use of drop boxes. He also wants to […]