The Fond du Lac and Ripon Main Street programs were recognized at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s at the 24th Annual Wisconsin Main Street Awards ceremony at St. Norbert College Friday night. Tricia Braun, deputy secretary and COO of WEDC, was on hand to recognize the efforts by Main Street volunteers and staff for the historic preservation and downtown economic development efforts of communities in Wisconsin. “The Wisconsin Main Street […]
Waupun police used a Taser to take a 19 year old Waupun woman into custody following a domestic incident. Police were called to a domestic battery complaint at a residence in the 900 block of Madison Street. When officers arrived the woman attempted to flee, and attempted to grab knives from a kitchen drawer, and then fought with officers with a knife in her possession. Officers used a Taser device […]
A Fond du Lac man found passed out with a syringe in his arm has been arrested. Police say the man faces charges of drugged driving after a citizen reported seeing him passed out in a vehicle with a needle in his arm. The Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office says the 27-year-old Fond du Lac man was found passed out in a vehicle in Fond du Lac County but regained […]
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Scientists say the number of gray wolves at Isle Royale National Park has dropped to three — the fewest since biologists began studying the population on the Lake Superior island chain in the 1950s. Researchers with Michigan Technological University released their annual report on the park's wolves and moose Friday. They said the wolf count has continued a sharp decline since 1989, when it stood […]
A spring ritual is underway in Wisconsin. State Department of Natural Resources biologist Ryan Koenigs say the sturgeon spawning season has started on the Wolf River. Koenigs says the spawning is about nine days earlier than usual. "Fish are spawning throughout the whole Winnebago system. There are probably fish spawning on the upper Fox River, they've been spawning there since Wednesday," Koenigs told AM 1170 WFDL news. "The real run […]
BALSAM LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A Minnesota man has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the fatal stabbing of a Wisconsin fisherman at Interstate State Park. Bail was set Friday at $125,000 for 19-year-old Levi C. Acre-Kendall, of Cambridge. Thirty-four-year-old Peter Kelly, of St. Croix Falls, was stabbed Tuesday night after he and a friend argued with three younger men across the St. Croix River. The confrontation happened on […]
A 51-year-old Fond du Lac man has been convicted sexually assaulting a six year old girl. A Fond du lzc jury found Monty Moore guilty of repeated sexual assault of the same child. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison and 20 years extended supervision. According to a criminal complaint Moore sexually assaulted the child multiple times starting in the fall of 2013. A sentencing hearing […]
A Waupun man charged in the heroin overdose of a Fond du lac County man has been convicted in a separate case. Joshua Mulder pleaded no contest to bail jumping and operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited alcohol content-second offense. Charges of owi second offense, and a second bail jumping count were dismissed and read into the record. Mulder is also charged with reckless homicide and manufacture-delivery of heroin. […]
A Sheboygan man charged with vandalizing a veteran’s memorial in Brandon was back in court this week. Fond du Lac judge Robert Wirtz denied a request by Joseph Ross for a new attorney. The 52 year old Ross is charged with criminal damage to a memorial that honors the dead. A status conference is scheduled for May 1st. Brandon police chief Tom Dornbrook says Ross was arrested in connection […]