Month: December 2024

Wayland Academy invites the public to celebrate this holiday season at our annual Festival of Lessons and Carols this Sunday, Dec. 8. The service will take place at 6 p.m. in Kimberly Chapel, located on the north end of Wayland’s campus in Beaver Dam.  Lessons and Carols is a nondenominational service featuring the singing of Christmas carols, hymns, and choral music, along with readings and lessons from scripture in different […]

The Green Lake County Sheriff's Office is investigating the death of of 75 year old man after his body was recovered Monday from the Fox River.  The Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to a call Monday morning  when a man had not returned home when expected. The vehicle was  found in the river and the man was located outside the vehicle, deceased.  The incident remains under investigation.

The victim of a fatal two vehicle crash in Fond du lac County has been identified.  The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office says 34 year old Samantha Watts-Galica of Brandon died Saturday evening when her car was struck by a vehicle on Highway 151 at County Highway TC.  Failure to stop at stop sign and failure to yield to cross-traffic are believed to be the contributing factors to the incident.

Former Ripon Area Fire District Chief Tim Saul is accused of defrauding the department.  Saul  was charged Monday afternoon in Fond du lac County Circuit Court  with three misdemeanor counts of financial transaction card-use to defraud.   According to a criminal complaint Saul allegedly used an RAFD-issued credit card over several  years for almost $43,000 for personal expenses including  payments to the Chicago Cubs, a California AirBnB, two Wisconsin Dells water parks and to his wife’s […]

A second man has been convicted in the shooting death of a Fond du Lac man. As part of a plea agreement Eric Perry pleaded no contest to Second Degree Intentional Homicide as a repeater and Armed Robbery in the shooting death of Benzel Rose.  District Attorney Toney stated “The City of Fond du Lac Police Department performed an excellent investigation leading to today’s convictions and justice for the family […]

The first of four people convicted in a fentanyl overdose death in Ripon has been sentenced.  Seventeen year old Maison Springston was sentenced to seven years in prison and eight years extended supervision for the April 2023 overdose death.  Three others are still awaiting sentencing.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions scored a major legal victory Monday with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law that sparked weeks of protests and made the state the center of the national battle over union rights.  That law, known as Act 10, effectively ended the ability of most public employees to bargain for wage increases and other issues, and […]

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, said Sunday he has joined the race to lead the national party after an election that swept Donald Trump and Republicans to power in Washington.  “In Wisconsin, we’ve built a permanent campaign,” Wikler said in his candidacy announcement. “We organize and communicate year-round in every corner of the state — rural, suburban, urban, red, blue and purple areas alike.”  Since losing […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — David Prosser, who rose to become speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly before an 18-year tenure on the state Supreme Court that was marked by a heated altercation with another justice, has died. He was 81 years old.  Prosser died on Sunday after battling cancer for several months, his family said in a statement Monday. A Republican, Prosser served 18 years in the Assembly, the last two as speaker, and […]