PULASKI, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a car collided with a school bus carrying high school athletes near Pulaski, killing a passenger in the car and injuring 14 people. Brown County officials said the car hit the back of the bus Tuesday night while the bus tried to cross the highway. The bus was carrying volleyball teams from Pulaski High School. Sheriff's Lt. Kevin Pawlak tells Press-Gazette Media that 13 […]
A Fond du lac man has been convicted of armed robbery. Seventeen year old Quindarius Williams pleaded no contest to one count of armed robbery. Two other counts of robbery were dismissed and read into the record. A presentence investigation was ordered and a sentencing hearing is scheduled for October 31st. Williams was accused of robbing three people at gunpoint near the Adelaide Park skateboard park on North Hickory Street […]
The Fond du Lac County Dairy and Livestock agent says a new dairy insurance program involves less restrictions and is more flexibility. Dairy farmers can begin signing up for the new program this week. Dairy and Livestock agent Tina Coleman says the program is a kind of insurance that pays farmers when the difference between milk prices and feed prices shrink to a certain level. Farmers who enroll in the […]
Fond du Lac fire investigators say hot oil from a homemade batch of bear bait apparently started a fire that damaged a Fond du Lac Fire chief Pete O’Leary says a plastic container containing the concoction was placed too close to the side of the home igniting the siding. Nobody was injured in the fire at 777 Grove Street. A neighbor across the street noticed the flames early Sunday morning […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says alcohol appears to be a factor in a one vehicle rollover crash that seriously injured two people. Sheriff’s captain Rick Olig says the driver 18 year old Burt Derkson of Waupun was ejected from the vehicle on Brown Road near Willow Creek Road. Derkson and a passenger, 17 year old Emily Moore from the Plymouth area were seriously injured. Another passenger, […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan says the circumstances that led to the purported beheading of a second U.S. journalist by the Islamic State group reflect a weakness of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. Ryan heard the news Tuesday while taking questions at a luncheon at the Rotary Club of Milwaukee. An organizer told him of news reports saying an Internet video had just been posted purporting to show […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says he won't make another job-creation promise like he did four years ago. Walker said Tuesday that his economic development plan to be unveiled in coming weeks will be a detailed proposal about how to grow jobs, but it won't include a specific promise of how many jobs would be created. Walker promised during his first campaign for governor in 2010 that if […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says making Wisconsin a "right to work" state is not a part of his agenda, but he refused to say if he would veto such a bill. In "right to work" states, private-sector workers can't be required to join a union or pay dues as a condition of employment. Walker has repeatedly been cool to the idea, saying it wasn't a priority and […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative investigative group is accusing Democratic attorney general hopeful Susan Happ of letting a child molester off easy because he was in a contract to purchase her house. Court and land documents show Happ and her husband entered into a three-year land contract calling for Daniel J. Reynolds to purchase their home in late 2009. In early 2013 Happ's office charged Reynolds with two felony […]