Month: April 2023

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge in Wisconsin has sentenced a Minnesota man to two years in prison for aiming a laser at a Delta Air Lines jet in 2021. Prosecutors say the act disrupted the pilots’ efforts to land and put passengers in “incredible danger.” Forty-three-year-old James Link, of Rochester, Minnesota, pleaded guilty in January. According to the U.S. attorney’s office in Madison, the pilots of the Delta […]

A Fond du Lac man wanted on a felony warrant was arrested after barricading himself in a garage.   At approximately 4:00 p.m. Friday police responded to the 100 block of Central  Avenue for a civil complaint. While investigating that complaint,  oficers saw  a man who had a felony warrant enter a detached garage and barricade himself inside.   When the suspect refused to exit the garage officers forced entry,  and using a drone located […]

The Public Service Commission of Wisconsin says a new area code is coming to northeast Wisconsin.   The PSC says  the creation of a new, additional area code will overlay the area in which the 920 area code is now in service, including Appleton, Beaver Dam, Berlin, Fond du Lac, Fort Atkinson, Green Bay, Manitowoc, Oshkosh, Ripon, Sheboygan, Sturgeon Bay, and Watertown.   The 920 area code is expected to run out of assignable […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's probation and parole officers aren't responding quickly enough to violations or offering all the services required by law. According to a nonpartisan legislative audit published Friday, the state's community supervision program isn't meeting deadlines for investigations and risk assessments. Department of Corrections staff report feeling frustrated with new policies and unhappy with high workloads and low pay. The probation and parole program, tasked with overseeing […]

Governor Tony Evers has signed a bipartisan bill that classfies county jailers as protective occupation participants like other public safety workers.   Republican state representative Mark Born of Beaver Dam is the bill's author.   Born says protective status benefits include a lower retirement age, an increased multiplier for retirement annuities and duty disability insurance.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has pardoned almost 160 more people, extending his record number of pardons. Most of the pardons involved relatively low-level offenses, including drug dealing, possession or theft. The governor announced the 159 new pardons Friday. He has now granted 933 in just over four years in office, easily the most of any Wisconsin governor. Evers' predecessor, Republican Scott Walker, didn't issue a single […]

Gov. Tony Evers Friday announced his appointment of former State Rep. Don Vruwink to Commissioner of Railroads. The appointment fills a vacancy created by Commissioner of Railroads Yash Wadhwa’s resignation, effective March 1, 2023.   “From his more than three decades as an educator to his time serving the people of Wisconsin at both the local and state level on his community’s city council and school board and in the Wisconsin […]

The City Of Fond du Lac is seeking public input on the City’s Park System to help guide the next Recreation Plan and Future Park planning. The City is seeking information on how often the parks are visited and what amenities the public enjoys and would like to see more of. The Park Survey is located on the homepage of the City’s Website under Latest News at www.fdl.wi.gov.

A Wausau man is in custody following a standoff with police at a Fond du Lac  residence.   Shortly before 6pm Thursday police were called to the 200 block of  East Rees Street for a report of a man inside a home who was refusing to leave the residence and had a felony warrant.  Officers contacted a woman who had safely left the residence, and learned the suspect did not live there and […]