Local law enforcement officers, firefighters and Fond du Lac area residents gathered at Hamilton Park in downtown Fond du Lac Thursday afternoon to remember officers who have given their lives to protect the community. "I'm grateful we have come together to show that we will never forget," Fond du Lac Police chief Aaron Goldstein said. "This afternoon is a moment in time that we can focus on our undying commitment […]
Two people were injured, one seriously, in a three vehicle crash in Dodge County. The crash happened Wednesday afternoon on state Highway 33 near McKinley Beach Road. A preliminary investigation shows a minivan driven by an 84 year old Markesan man was northbound on Highway 33 and collided with a pickup truck operated by a 46-year-old Randolph man that had slowed to turn into a private driveway. The minivan then traveled into the […]
Fond du Lac police are continuing to investigate a violent domestic incident that sent an 11 year old boy to the hospital. A 31 year old Fond du Lac man faces multiple charges including Child Abuse-Intentionally Causing Body Harm, in connection with the incident early Monday morning at an East Scott Street apartment. Police Chief Aaron Goldstein says the Dispatch Center initially received a 9-1-1 call where the line remained open with no voice and […]
The Waupun School District superintendent says the shooting of an armed student at a Mount Horeb Middle School last week is a horrible situation. Steve Hill says Mount Horeb seems like a typical small town in Wisconsin. "It really just tells you that students across the state and across the country...there are mental health issues, and we have concerns about how can we best help them," Hill told WFDL news. Authorities […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court has cleared the way for utilities to finish building a high-voltage power line across a Mississippi River refuge. American Transmission Company, ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative are in the final stages of constructing a 102-mile transmission line linking Iowa's Dubuque County and Wisconsin's Dane County. About a mile of the line would cross the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Bucks guard Patrick Beverley was suspended by the NBA on Thursday for four games without pay to begin next season for his actions during and after the final game of an Eastern Conference first-round playoff series with the Indiana Pacers. The league announced the suspension and said Beverley was getting punished for “forcefully throwing a basketball multiple times at spectators and an inappropriate interaction with a reporter during […]
Fond du Lac, Wisc.: Angelia Foster, regional president for Marshfield Medical Center in Beaver Dam, will serve as Moraine Park’s keynote speaker at the Spring 2024 Commencement Ceremony on May 18. Foster has more than fifteen years of health care leadership experience, including her past role as executive vice president/chief administrative officer at Community Hospitals and Wellness Centers in Bryan, Ohio. She began her health care career at Memorial Health System in Springfield, […]
STURTEVANT, Wisc. (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday laced into Donald Trump over a failed project in the previous administration that was supposed to bring thousands of new jobs into southeastern Wisconsin and trumpeted new economic investments under his watch that are coming to the same spot. That location in the battleground state will now be the site of a new data center from Microsoft, whose president credited the Biden administration's […]
photo: Shawn Fisher (left), Agnesian HealthCare Foundation executive director, presents the Samaritan Cash Raffle grand prize to Brianna St. Louis, a Fond du Lac resident. Brianna St. Louis is the winner of the $50,000 grand prize in this year's Fond du Lac Agnesian HealthCare Foundation's annual Samaritan Cash Raffle. St. Louis was working in the SSM Health Cardiovascular lab when her name was drawn Wednesday as the big winner. "I forgot […]