MILWAUKEE (AP) Doctors disagree over whether the second of two 12-year-old girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please a fictional horror character is fit to stand trial. A Wisconsin judge said Wednesday that he received a report from a state doctor who believes the girl could help with her defense. But her public defender says another doctor believes she's not mentally able to do so. Waukesha County Judge […]
TOWN OF BELLE PLAINE, Wis. (AP) Shawano County sheriff's authorities have identified the three teens killed in a highway crash and a fourth who was injured. All four were in a car that crossed the center line on Highway 22 in the Town of Belle Plaine Tuesday evening and was struck by an oncoming SUV. The teens who died in the crash are 15-year-old Paige Brunette, of Bonduel; 17-year-old Cody […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democrats have filed a lawsuit seeking videos of prosecutor training sessions involving Republican attorney general candidate Brad Schimel. Their lawsuit Tuesday contends a state Democratic Party researcher made an open records request with the state Justice Department seeking the videos on September 15th. The party says Schimel may have made inappropriate remarks at the presentations. A Madison judge on Wednesday scheduled a hearing on the […]
A hefty cash bail has been set for a Fond du Lac man charged with attempted homicide. Twenty two year old James Tucker Jr. made his initial Fond du Lac Court appearance Wednesday on charges of attempted first degree intentional homicide, first degree reckless injury and aggravated battery, all by use of a dangerous weapon. Judge Robert Wirtz set bail at $500,000 cash. Tucker was arrested last week in […]
The unemployment rate fell in almost every Wisconsin city and county in September. The state Department of Workforce Development reported Wednesday that unemployment dropped in 31 of the 32 largest cities in September. The city of Fond du Lac’s unemployment rate fell from 5.5 to 5.2 percent. Racine again had the highest unemployment rate at 8.8 percent. Unemployment fell in 70 of the state's 72 counties as well. The Fond […]
Outgoing Republican Sixth District Representative Tom Petri said he will not endorse Republican candidate Glenn Grothman in this year’s election. Petri made the comments after Grothman had earlier stated that if he was elected and in two years people said he was 'just like Petri' he would be insulted. In an interview earlier this year on AM 1170 WFDL’s Between the Lines program Petri said he believed the congressional […]
A Fond du Lac jury has determined a Ripon man was not suffering from a mental illness when he drove his jeep into his home and a neighbor’s house. The jury returned the verdict against 37 year old Nathan Disterhaft even though two psychologists and a psychiatrist testified that Disterhaft did have a mental illness. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for January 12th following a conviction of recklessly endangering […]
A plea and sentencing hearing is scheduled for next month for a former Waupun police officer accused of burglarizing three businesses in Green Lake County. Bradley Young is accused of burglarizing a town of Green Lake restaurant and two grocery stores in Berlin and Markesan. Young was arrested August 6th, 2013 following a multi county crime spree and high speed chase with law enforcement in northern Wisconsin. He also faces […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered a Chilton game farm owner to serve five years' probation and pay $5,000 in fines for selling snow goose sausages. Fifty-year-old Todd Doughty, owner of the Thunderbird Game Farm, killed hundreds of snow geese in Nebraska in 2007. He brought the birds back to Wisconsin and sold 53 pounds of goose sausage in May 2010. Investigators also purchased sausage products made […]