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The Fond du Lac police department says retired K-9 officer “Grendel”  has been euthanized due to a serious and deteriorating health problem.  Grendel and his handler Officer Ryan Williams were both shot and critically injured in March of 2011 by a gunman who shot and killed officer Craig Birkholz.    Grendel was officially retired from the department in April of last year after eight years on the force.  A police […]

Marian University will hold its 34th annual Business & Industry awards dinner at Marian's Stayer Center for Technology & Executive Learning on Tuesday, October 27. Reception will begin at 5:45 p.m., with dinner and award ceremony to follow.  The Business of the Year award will be presented to Excel Engineering. Founded in 1990, Excel Engineering is a full-service design firm that has grown to include over 120 professional architects, engineers […]

Construction is quickly taking shape on a multi million dollar expansion  renovation project at Saint Mary’s Springs Academy in Fond du Lac.  On Monday hundreds of people signed the main beam for the new structure and Wednesday  a tall crane hoisted the beam into its permanent location.  System president Kelly Norton says the new addition will be fully enclosed before the end of the year and the project is slated […]

The North Fond du Lac School Board has approved a preliminary budget.  Superintendent Aaron Sadoff says third Friday enrollment counts show 60 new students in the district resulting in an increase  in state aid.  "No thanks to Madison because the reason we are going to be able to have a balanced budget is because we have increased enrollment,"  Sadoff told WFDL news.   "If we didn't have increased enrollment than […]

The Fond du lac city council president says she doesn’t anticipate the council making any changes in a proposed city budget.  The council discussed the budget at a workshop session earlier this month.  The budget includes a 2.5 percent increase in the tax rate with a 4.6 percent levy increase.  "We know about the major projects, operating costs are flat,"  council president Lee Ann Lorrigan told WFDL news.  Meanwhile Lorrigan […]

Republican congressman Glenn Grothman says he believes Governor Scott Walker had to end his short-lived presidential bid because his campaign ran out of money.  "What we now know is that he was very deeply in debt,"  Grothman told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program.  "Scott Walker is a very bright guy but there's a first time for everybody and everybody the first time you do something you make mistakes […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two of the three judges running for a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court say they won't seek an appointment by Gov. Scott Walker to fill out the final 10 months of Justice Patrick Crooks' term. State Appeals Court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg and Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Joe Donald both say they will not apply by Friday's deadline to be appointed by Walker. Appeals Court […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Democratic state senator has drawn up a pair of bills that would ban hunting and limit the types of mechanisms trappers can use in state parks. Sen. Fred Risser of Madison says park visitors shouldn't have to worry about being shot and trapping is inhumane. One bill would ban hunting in the parks completely. The other would outlaw steel-jawed traps, body-gripping raps and snares.