MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge says two girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man will stay in adult court, where they could face decades in prison. The 13-year-old girls' attorneys wanted the cases transferred to juvenile court, where the girls could be held for only five years. The girls are accused of luring Payton Leutner into the woods during a sleepover and […]
NEENAH, Wis. (AP) — Authorities are working to identify skeletal remains found near a truck that belongs to a Neenah man who's been missing for just over a year. The Oconto County Sheriff's Department says the red Ford Ranger pickup truck belongs to 22-year-old Kyle Blohm, who was last seen Aug. 8, 2014. The sheriff's office says a group of bear hunters found the truck Sunday in a forested area […]
Members of the Fond du Lac Fire Department Local #400, along with the Muscular Dystrophy Association, will kick off the fire fighters' annual Fill the Boot fundraising campaign to help save and improve the lives of people fighting muscle disease in the Fond du Lac area. Muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other related life-threatening diseases take away people’s ability to walk, move, smile, talk and even breathe. More […]
August marks the grand opening of the new Horicon Marsh Explorium and now is the time to get the family out and enjoy the fun happenings and scenery at Horicon Marsh. All programs are free and open to the public and do not require advance registration, unless stated otherwise. * August 15, 6:30 -8:30 p.m.: Movies at the Marsh. The Movies at the Marsh series continues with a screening of […]
A counselor will be available this afternoon at the STEM Academy in Fond du lac after a student died in an all-terrain vehicle accident in Missouri. Grant Corbin died in the accident Thursday. He was seriously injured in a bicycle accident in Fond du Lac last fall. A counselor will be on hand from 1-3 pm today at the STEM Academy. Grant’s funeral will be held in St. Louis, Missouri. […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin will host at least two presidential debates in the next year. The Democratic National Committee says Wisconsin will get a debate in February or March of next year. The Republican National Committee also plans a November debate in the Badger State. The DNC says the other debate locations are Nevada, Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina — the first four states to hold presidential primaries or […]
The executive director of the group 1000 Friends of Wisconsin says he believes the state DOT cooked the books on projected Highway 23 traffic counts to curry a political favor. Steve Hiniker made the comment on AM 1170 WFDL’s Between the Lines program two months after a federal judge halted the project until the DOT could justify traffic and population projections. "What we're looking into is why is it […]
Two multiple vehicle accidents on Highway 23 east of Fond du Lac recently again raise concern about whether the highway should be widened to four lanes. A project to expand the highway between Fond du Lac and Plymouth is on hold because of a lawsuit and cuts to the state transportation budget. Sheriff’s captain Rick Olig says two accidents involving multiple vehicles including semi tractor trailers probably would not have […]
Fond du Lac state representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt says he supports a controversial fetal tissue bill. The bill would ban the sale, donation and use of body parts of fetuses following abortions and require the remains be buried or cremated. Thiesfeldt says videos secretly recorded in California show a Planned Parenthood official discussing the cost of providing fetal body parts for medical research with anti-abortion activists posing as tissue buyers. Democratic […]