Rackow’s Family Sausage in Juda, Wisconsin has issued issued a Class I recall for pork lard sold from its store. The recalled product includes four pound tubs of pork lard purchased before August first. The recall was announced based on evidence collected during a routine inspection that shows that the product was not produced under a proper food safety plan. No illnesses have been reported. Anyone with signs or symptoms of a foodborne […]
Moraine Park Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh have signed an articulation agreement. The agreement will allow students pursuing associate of arts and associate of science liberal arts degrees to transfer from Moraine Park and continue their education at U-W Oshkosh with confirmed junior status. The agreement was signed Friday at Moraine Park's Fond du Lac campus. Moraine Park will offer both degrees beginning this fall. Earlier this year, the College signed a similar […]
Nobody was injured and Fond du Lac police are investigating after a report of gunshots fired outside at a Fond du Lac apartment complex. Police were called Saturday morning to North Peters Avenue and arrested a 17 year old Fond du Lac male. Police believe he fired a handgun into the air toward an unoccupied field behind the apartment complex.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican legislative leader from Wisconsin has fired the former state Supreme Court justice he hired to investigate the 2020 election, just three days after the lawmaker beat a primary opponent the investigator had endorsed and campaigned for. Friday's firing of Michael Gableman caps a 14-month ride that saw him hired by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to look into the election under pressure from Donald Trump. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Weyauwega man with killing a couple 30 years ago over a snowmobile accident. Fifty-two-year-old Tony Haase was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in connection with the stabbing deaths of Tanna Tongstad and Timothy Mumbrue in March 1992. Investigators said in a criminal complaint that a DNA match led them to Haase. According to the complaint, Tongstad's father was […]
A Minnesota man was seriously injured after the van he was driving collided head on with a dump truck in Fond du Lac County. According to the Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office shortly before 3pm Thursday a van crossed the center line of Highway 23 west of County Highway C colliding head on with a dump truck. The driver of the van then tried to harm himself with a knife while bystsanders tried […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Turnout in Wisconsin’s primary election that featured a hotly contested Republican race for governor neared 26%, the highest for a non-presidential primary in 40 years. Unofficial results for Tuesday’s primary show that nearly 693,000 Republicans voted in the governor’s race and more than 501,000 Democrats voted in the Senate primary. Interest fell in that race won by Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes after his three top challengers […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul will have to go through an experienced Republican prosecutor to win a second term, setting up a fall race that will likely turn on their stances on major national issues such as abortion, gun restrictions and voter fraud. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney bested two sharply conservative rivals in Tuesday's primary to win the GOP nomination. Both he […]
Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney says public safety is the top issue as he heads into the home stretch after winning Tuesday's GOP primary election for state attorney general. Toney defeated two other candidates in the primary to square off against Demcoratic Attorney General Josh Kaul in November. Toney won despite being significantly outspent by his main opponent, former state representative Adam Jarchow. "Just on the advertising money […]