The City of Fond du Lac Police Department says Police K9 “Packo”, was put to sleep Thursday due to a sudden deteriorating health condition. The 10 ½ year old German Shepherd joined the Department in August, 2007 and was paired with Officer Ben Hardgrove. Packo was an active member of the K-9 unit until November of this year when he developed a rapidly deteriorating health condition. A police […]
A plea and sentencing hearing has been scheduled for a Fond du Lac man charged in a child sex assault and domestic incident. The hearing for Antone Moffett is scheduled for January 4th. Moffett is being held in the Fond du lac County Jail on $100,000 cash bond. Moffet is charged with two counts of repeated sexual assault of a child, accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 13 year […]
TOWN OF ALGOMA, Wis. (AP) — The Division of Criminal Investigation has taken over the investigation of an officer-involved shooting outside the Algoma town hall just west of Oshkosh. Winnebago County Sheriff John Matz says the incident began just before 3:30 p.m. Thursday with a disturbance elsewhere and ended up at the town hall, where the suspect was shot multiple times by a county deputy and an Oshkosh police officer. […]
KIEL, Wis. (AP) — A former Kiel High School wrestling coach has been released on bail after being arrested on suspicion of sending explicit photos to a student and soliciting sexual favors from her Kiel Police Chief Mark Funkhouser and Kiel Area School District Administrator Louise Blankenheim told reporters Thursday that authorities were alerted Wednesday after a student remarked that he was uncomfortable with the coach because he had been […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin System regents committee has approved a resolution affirming the system's commitment to free speech. The regents' education committee voted unanimously to adopt the resolution Thursday afternoon during a meeting on the UW-Madison campus. Approval would send the resolution on to the full board of regents for consideration on Friday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Wisconsin System regent committee has approved giving the system's ongoing adult education arm the authority to grant business degrees. The regents' education committee unanimously approved changes to UW-Extension's mission statement on Thursday allowing it to grant business certificates, associate degrees and bachelor's degrees in businesses through the UW System's Flex Option program.
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A retired National Parks Service superintendent has been charged with stealing ancient Native American remains from a museum collection in Iowa and keeping them in Wisconsin. Former Effigy Mounds National Monument superintendent Thomas Munson was charged Tuesday with embezzlement. He's expected to be arraigned in federal court in Cedar Rapids next week. The 76-year-old has been the subject of an investigation since 2011, when he […]
A Fond du Lac man accused of threatening an ex girlfriend with a gun at a nail salon has copped a plea. As part of the agreement 19 year old Jerry Yang pleaded no contest to a charge of second degree recklessly endangering safety. Charges of carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct were dismissed and read into the record. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for February 29th. Police say […]
A local firearms instructor says he’s not surprised to see an increase in gun sales. Background checks for gun purchases soared to the highest one-day total ever the day after Thanksgiving in Wisconsin, mirroring a national surge on Black Friday. The Wisconsin Department of Justice conducted more than 1,700 background checks on November 27th. That doesn’t come as a surprise to Fond du Lac firearm instructor Ed Schilling. "Any time […]