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The Fond du Lac Police Department’s October Law of the Month is passing stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks, and highway machinery equipment. The Fond du Lac Police Department wants to educate everyone on how to safely pass stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks, or highway machinery/construction equipment (snow plows, waste management vehicles, lawn cutting equipment. The Department of Transportation traffic law for passing stopped emergency vehicles, tow trucks, and highway machinery (WI Statute […]

As most in our area know, a group of our spouses and significant others recently called the community’s attention to ‘National Thank a Police Officer Day.’ They did so because they wanted to help ensure that all law enforcement officers who work in the greater Fond du Lac area understand how the service and sacrifices they make are respected and appreciated by the vast majority of our community. This effort, […]

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office has been awarded two state Department of Transportation grants to improve traffic safety.  a $13,000 grant will provide additional deputies for traffic enforcement on Highway 23 east to the Sheboygan County line.  In the first 9 months of 2015 on this stretch of Highway in Fond du Lac County there have been over twenty crashes, two people killed, more than a nineteen injured. […]

A two vehicle crash in Fond du Lac County has claimed the life of a four year old Elkhart Lake girl and critically injured a Kiel woman.  Sheriff’s captain Rick Olig says the victim has been identified as four year old Addison Nye.  The driver, 19 year old Alix Cash from Kiel is in critical condition at Theda Clark Regional Medical Center in Neenah.  Olig says Cash failed to stop […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers are demanding Republican Governor Scott Walker call a special legislative session to deal with a shortfall in road project funding. Walker proposed borrowing $1.3 billion for roads in the state budget, and Republican legislators scaled that back to $500 million. Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling and some Assembly Democrats on Thursday demanded the governor call a special session to approve additional funding.

A Republican legislator from the Fox Valley is responding to accusations from Democratic legislative leaders  that Republicans have lost their focus by catering to the far right wing of their party.  Senate Democratic leader Jennifer Schilling said at a news conference this week that governor Walker and Republican lawmakers have an insatiable appetite for power.   Republican state senator Roger Roth of Appleton told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group of state lawmakers has proposed a bill that would raise Wisconsin's cap on compensation for wrongful convictions from $25,000 to $1 million.  Wisconsin currently offers the wrongly convicted $5,000 for every year of incarceration, up to $25,000. Under the bill, the wrongfully convicted could claim $50,000 per year of incarceration up to $1 million. They could also participate in the state health insurance plan […]

CHICAGO (AP) — The three judges on a federal appeals court panel are questioning a Wisconsin law blocked by a court order requiring doctors who provide abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.  Presiding 7th U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner said during oral arguments Thursday said the law was designed to shut down abortion clinics.  Republican supporters of the law say it was designed to ensure doctors are properly […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System regents are set to consider lifting the limit on out-of-state students at UW-Madison. The regents' education committee is scheduled to consider a proposal to waive the limit on October 8th. Currently, out-of-state undergraduate enrollment at any UW campus can't exceed 27.5 percent of the total undergraduate enrollment.