RACINE, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says human waste has spilled on a highway in Racine County. The spill caused traffic delays Sunday afternoon for about three hours on Interstate 94 eastbound. The department says a "liquid non-hazardous substance" spilled across all lanes. It was not clear what type of vehicle the waste came from. Officials decided to leave the spill in the road and clean it […]
Another store in the Fond du Lac Forest Mall is closing. Sears informed the state Thursday it's closing the store and its auto center on North Peters Avenue. by Sunday, November 2nd. The closings will leave 42 out of work. A company official said the closings are prompted by "a change in business circumstances." J.C. Penney, the mall’s anchor store since it opened, closed earlier this year. There […]
Five Fond du Lac police officers are contesting the release of documents regarding an internal investigation involving the officers. The officers have hired former Fond du lac County Distrtict Attorney Dan Kaminsky to represent them . A complaint filed in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court says the internal investigation involved behavior related to off duty personal conduct and involved sensitive interpersonal relationships among officers and other individuals and spouses. […]
MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — Police say an officer making a traffic stop in eastern Wisconsin found an intoxicated driver behind the wheel — and she was just 13 years old. They say five other juveniles, 14 and under, were along for the ride. Authorities say the officer stopped the vehicle in Manitowoc shortly before midnight Wednesday because its headlights were off. Police Capt. Larry Zimney tells WOMT radio that the […]
Republican state senator Glenn Grothman says he’s confident he will be the winner regardless of any recount. Grothman leads state senator Joe Leibham by 214 votes following Tuesday’s primary. Grothman says he hopes Leibham doesn’t ask for a recount. "It would be highly unusual, very unusual in today's world to have that many votes switch on a recount,' Grothman told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program. Grothman says he […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Susan Happ and Brad Schimel are both prosecutors with their eyes on the attorney general's office. But they couldn't be further apart in their philosophies. Happ, who emerged from a three-way Democratic primary on Tuesday, has spent the last six years putting bad guys behind bars as Jefferson County district attorney. She has said she wouldn't defend GOP-authored laws banning gay marriage, requiring abortion providers have […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's top elections official has rejected an open records request filed by two Republicans who wanted information about how much investigators have been paid to look into alleged illegal campaign activity by Governor Scott Walker's recall campaign. Government Accountability Board director Kevin Kennedy on Tuesday rejected the request saying state law did not allow him to release confidential investigatory records. The request was filed last month […]
The Fond du Lac city county government center was placed on lockdown Thursday afternoon as Fond du lac police responded to a report of a man armed with a gun who apparently entered a home across the street from the government center. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says police surrounded the area and entered the Western Avenue home but did not find the suspect inside. The lockdown was lifted […]
Fond du lac police had their guns drawn this week after receiving reports of possible gunshots fired…but after briefly detaining a couple no arrests were made. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says police were called to a residence in the area of Merrill Avenue and Marquette Street Wednesday afternoon for a report of a disturbance involving yeling and screaming with possible gunshots fired. Klein says police set up a perimeter […]