AAA Wisconsin is issuing a safety alert for motorists with the extreme cold again blanketing the Badger state. Spokesman Nick Jarmuscz says AAA gets a lot of calls for dead batteries when it gets this cold. Jarmuscz says if you don’t have a garage, placing a tarp over the hood may help your car start in the morning. Jarmuscz says priority service will be given to members who are stranded or in a dangerous […]
Fond du Lac Police have made contact with a man involved in a suspicious incident last week…but no arrests have been made. Assistant police chief Steve Klein told WFDL news says a 50 year old Fond du lac man admitted he talked with a female middle school student who was walking home from school last Wednesday, but denies having any physical contact with her. Meanwhile Klein says it turns out a man seen on […]
A jury trial is scheduled to get underway this week for a Fond du Lac woman charged in the murder of her husband. Eve Nance is charged with first degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. She is accused of shooting her husband Timothy Nance in their Fond du lac home and dumping his body in a wooded area in Milwaukee. His body was found on Thanksgiving Day, 2013.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A new report says Wisconsin posted its best year for sales of existing homes in a decade in 2015. The Wisconsin Realtors Association said Monday that closings on residential properties increased 11.4 percent and the median sale price rose 5.1 percent. The group says a solid December put the finishing touch on a strong year with an 8.9 increase in sales of existing homes compared with December […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Democratic legislative leaders say they want to hear bold plans from Gov. Scott Walker during his upcoming State of the State address. Rep. Peter Barca and Sen. Jennifer Shilling said Monday that the Republican governor needs to work with them to strengthen the state's middle class and improve its infrastructure. They say Democrats have a suite of proposals aimed at boosting working families, including creating a child […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy encourages people to focus on love instead of hate. The Republican governor said Monday at an annual MLK celebration breakfast in Milwaukee that the civil rights leader's quote from decades ago "hatred cannot drive out hatred; only love can do that" provides an important lesson today. Walker says "all too often, there are those out there, regardless […]
The Fond du Lac Area United Way has just a few days to reach its goal before the United Way Board makes its allocation decisions for the year. United Way director Amber Kilawee says she hopes the $756,000 goal can still be met before the board meets this Thursday to decide how to allocate money to the 28 member agencies. Kilawee says as of today the fund drive is about $43,000 short of the […]
Fond du Lac Police have made contact with a man involved in a suspicious incident last week…but no arrests have been made. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says a 50 year old Fond du lac man admitted he talked with a female middle school student who was walking home from school last Wednesday, but denies having any physical contact with her. Meanwhile Klein says it turns out a man seen on surveillance video leaving the […]
Students at Fond du lac High School had to spend a few minutes outdoors in the bitter cold, many without a jacket, after the fire alarm sounded Monday. School District health and safety program coordinator Marian Sheridan says a student apparently pulled a fire alarm as a prank. 'This is a dangerous situation. We take fire alarms very seriously, and as the law requires us to do we have to evacuate," Sheridan […]