The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders baseball team will be playing an historic game on the home field of the Appleton Timber Rattlers this season. The Dock Spiders and Green Bay Rockers will play the inaugural I-41 Showdown at NeuroScience Field on Thursday June 9. Dock Spiders General Manager Jim Misudek it marks the first time any Northwoods League team has played a game on a professional minor league baseball diamond. Tickets […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The largest technical cheese, butter and yogurt competition in the world started Tuesday in Wisconsin, with 2,978 entries from 29 nations. The 53 judges taste, sniff and inspect the 141 classes of dairy products during the biennial World Championship Cheese Contest, this year held in Madison. The number of entries is down from 2020 when it was a record 3,667 and that’s partly due to supply […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court is grappling with whether to allow a woman accused of killing a man to argue at trial that the homicide was justified because she was a sex trafficking victim. The case could help define how far immunity extends for trafficking victims across the country. Prosecutors allege Chrystul Kizer shot Randall Volar in the head, burned down his Kenosha house down and stole […]
A Pickett woman was seriously injured when she was struck by a car while riding her bicycle in Fond du Lac County. The crash happened shortly before 5:30pm Monday on County Highway M near Center Road. According to the Sheriff's Office the woman was northbound on M when she was struck by a passenger side mirror as a vehicle was attempting to pass her. The 56 year old woman was flown by helicopter to ThedaCare […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The report of a Republican-ordered investigation into the 2020 election in Wisconsin won by President Joe Biden will be publicly released this week. A spokesman for lead investigator Michael Gableman said Monday that the report was being turned over to Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Tuesday before being made public. Gableman is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the Wisconsin Assembly elections committee, a panel that […]
SURING, Wis. (AP) — The lead administrator of a Wisconsin public school system has been charged with false imprisonment after six female students said she asked them to take off some of their clothes in a search for vaping devices. Court documents say Suring Schools superintendent Kelly Casper is accused of holding the girls in a high school bathroom Jan. 18 while she and the school nurse asked them to […]
The Fond du Lac County District Attorney says a former Fond du Lac Police detective's actions would have presented "significant hurdles" in using him as a witness in future court cases. The document released by the city of Fond du Lac mirrors much of the same information released last October regarding former detective Bill Ledger after he reached a settlement agreement with the Department. WFDL news exclusively reported last fall […]
The Fond du Lac County Health Department is adopting new CDC mask guidance and changing it's COVID-19 dashboard to reflect that. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says one of the changes involves the level of community transmission, shifting the focus from the number of daily positive cases. "The CDC is still recommending hospitals and nursing homes follow that community transmission rate but for everybody else we can go to this COVID-19 […]
The Fond du Lac School Board has approved the hiring of five individuals as part of an administrative reorganization plan designed to boost student achievement. Fond du Lac School District superintendent, Dr. Jeff Fleig, says High School principal Matt Steinbarth has been selected as the Chief of Schools and Educational Accountability. "Matt's primary job is to oversee the day to day operations of our schools, work with principals day to […]