Month: November 2024

Madison, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services (DSPS) is reminding professional license holders of an older scam that is resurfacing.  Wisconsin’s safety agency was contacted by several license holders this week saying they got a call from a man who claimed to be a DSPS investigator. The scammer claims there is a problem with the target’s license due to being a suspect in illegal activity.  These scams can […]

Thanks to a generous $225,000 gift from the estate of William (Bill) Faubel, who passed away peacefully in December 2023 at age 103, the Agnesian HealthCare Foundation will continue its support of SSM Health at Home Hospice services in Fond du Lac and Green Lake.    SSM Health at Home Hospice is a program for individuals with a limited life expectancy. An interdisciplinary team works with patients and their families, […]

The Fond du Lac Department of Public Works has announced the temporary railroad crossing closure on S Hickory Street, south of Rolling Meadows Drive. The closure will begin Monday, November 25 at 7:00 am and will re-open end of day Monday, December 2. The railroad crossing will be closed to allow Canadian National to make an emergency repair at the railroad crossing and approaches.  A signed detour will be placed. […]

One person was critically injured in a car versus semi crash in Dodge County.  The crash happened at about 5pm Tuesday on County Road N at Goodland Road in the town of Rubicon.  An initial investigation shows a  car was northbound on Goodland Road when it failed to stop at a stop sign and  was struck by a semi.  The car driver, a 23-year-old Milwaukee man, was extricated from the vehicle and suffered serious life-threatening […]

Fond du Lac-Sheboygan-Dodge-Washington-Ozaukee-Jefferson-Waukesha-Milwaukee-Walworth-Racine-Kenosha-Including the cities of Cedarburg, Hartford, Fort Atkinson, Waukesha, Plymouth, Menomonee Falls, Beaver Dam, Germantown, Brookfield, Milwaukee, Howards Grove, Fond Du Lac, Mayville, New Berlin, Oostburg, Muskego, Grafton, East Troy, Lake Geneva, Elkhorn, Mequon, West Bend, Delavan, Jefferson, Whitewater, Waupun, Sheboygan Falls, Racine, Watertown, and Kenosha ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO NOON CST THURSDAY... * WHAT...Wet snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 2 and 4   inches. * WHERE...Portions of east […]

Nobody was injured and one person is in custody following a shooting incident in North Fond du Lac.  On Wednesday North Fond du lac Police and Fond du Lac County Sheriff's deputies were called to the 400 block of Harrison street for a report of a gunshot.  Prior to officers arriving the dispatch center received a call from a man who reported a gun shot was fired in an apartment and he had kicked in […]

A Brownsville man died after he apparently suffered a heart attack before his pickup truck  left the road and entered a pond in Fond du Lac.    Shortly before 12:30pm Tuesday rescue personnel were called to a pond near  the Highway 151 Bypass and Interstate 41.  The driver and lone occupant, a 57 year old Brownsville man, was transported to St. Agnes Hospital where he was pronounced dead.    According to the Sheriff's Office just prior […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Judicial regulators filed a complaint Tuesday against a former conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who spread election conspiracy theories and was hired by Republicans to lead an investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, accusing him of violating multiple rules of conduct.  The Office of Lawyer Regulation 10-count complaint accuses former Justice Michael Gableman of violations which could result in a variety of sanctions, including possibly […]

WFDL news has learned the largest financial donation in Ripon College history is tied to a fraternity and the building  it once called home.  The Merriman House on Congress Street was home to the Phi Kappa Pi fraternity or Merriman until the fall of 2010 when the fraternity was relocated to a dorm.  A little more than a decade later the historic Merriman house was razed.   In an interview with WFDL news College president […]