Fond du Lac Police have arrested a suspect in connection with the theft of guns and ammunition from Fleet Farm. Police Chief Aaron Goldstein says a 29 year old Fond du Lac man was arrested without incident Wednesday afternoon following a traffic stop in the area of North Hickory and West Johnson Streets. Police executed a search warrant at a residence in the 400 block of Ann Street and recovered all five stolen […]
Firefighters from several departments battled a blaze that caused significant damage to the Eden Meat Market in the village of Eden. Firefighters were called to the scene shortly after 9am Thursday. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says three employees who tried to extinguish the fire before firefighters arrived were treated for smoke inhalation and released at the scene. Waldschmidt says the fire started in a vent and quickly spread to […]
Firefighters from several departments battled a blaze that caused significant damage to the Eden Meat Market in the village of Eden. Firefighters were called to the scene shortly after 9am Thursday. Fond du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says three employees who tried to extinguish the fire before firefighters arrived were treated for smoke inhalation and released at the scene. Waldschmidt says the fire started in a vent and quickly spread to […]
The latest Marquette University Law School poll released on Wednesday, Nov. 2 found races for both Wisconsin governor and U.S. Senate are a dead heat. The poll was conducted from Oct. 24 through Nov. 1, and surveyed 802 registered Wisconsin voters. It is the university's last poll before Election Day, Nov. 8. The poll found incumbent Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson leading Democratic challenger Mandela Barnes by two points. The […]
Wisconsin Republicans are trying to knock off Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and also gain a large enough majority in the Legislature to override any veto should he win. Democrats are looking to both return Evers, who has been a block on the conservative legislative agenda, while also knocking off Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson. He is seeking a third term against Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes in a race that […]
Fond du Lac County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says if absentee voting is any indication it will be a very high voter turnout in next week's election. Freiberg says when it comes to mail-in and in-person early voting in Fond du Lac County she has never seen anything like it. ""It's absolutely nuts," Freiberg told WFDL news. "I don't know what is going on, but it is absolutely crazy. We are seeing record […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court and a circuit judge this week shot down attempts backed by liberals seeking orders that local election clerks must accept absentee ballots that contain partial addresses of witnesses. The rulings come within days of Tuesday’s election and as more than 503,000 absentee ballots have already either been returned or cast in person. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is asking voters in his state to worry about Republican Tim Michels. Evers is seeking a second term in a race that polls show as close. In the final days of the race, he's calling Michels “radical” and “dangerous" and a possible threat to democracy. That's because Michels says he's not sure whether the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump and […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Madison Children’s Museum has fired a Wisconsin man with cognitive disabilities after he wore an Adolf Hitler costume over the Halloween weekend. The museum says the man believed he was making a mockery of the Nazi Party’s leader when he wore the costume on a busy street near the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Saturday. The Wisconsin State Journal reports he was fired Tuesday, after […]