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A  former assistant special education teacher at Horace Mann High School in North Fond du Lac has been convicted of sexually assaulting a special education student.   As part of a plea agreement 45 year old Dominic Carmona pleaded no contest to one count of sexual assault of a student by school staff and one count of child enticement.  He was initially charged with 14 counts.  A sentencing hearing is scheduled […]

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal ATV crash.  It happened Tuesday night on private property on County Highway AY in the town of Herman.  Investigators say the male ATV operator was traveling north along a hillside when he struck an object causing a rollover.  The operator was not wearing a helmet and was pronounced dead at the scene.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders have reached a deal on a new state budget that removes the Milwaukee Bucks and prevailing wage changes to be taken up later as separate bills.  Joint Finance Committee co-chair Rep. John Nygren tells The Associated Press on Tuesday that the deal also includes agreement on how to distribute cuts in road funding. He says the cut will be less than the $800 […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature may vote on a financing deal for a Milwaukee Bucks arena and changes to the prevailing wage law in a special session.  That's what the co-chair of the Legislature's budget committee said Tuesday.  Sen. Alberta Darling tells The Associated Press that neither contentious issue will be put into the state budget when the Joint Finance Committee meets Thursday to complete its work. Republicans in […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats and public education advocates say they want to remove budget provisions that would provide special education vouchers and additional private school vouchers. Dozens of people gathered at the Capitol Tuesday to blast education funding plans approved in a late-night budget committee meeting last month. School board members, parents and lawmakers said Republicans should reconsider the provisions they added to the state's budget. Democrats from both […]

Two men convicted of sexually assaulting children in Dodge County have been sentenced to life in prison. Dodge County Circuit Judge Steven Bauer sentenced  31 year old Jesse Madison of Waupun to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 15 year old boy.  Madison was convicted of three counts of second degree sexual assault of a child.  In sentencing Madison Judge Bauer said Madison’s  “drive to sexually assault children is […]

A Fond du Lac bicyclist is a hometown hero with the highest finish by an American in the grueling Race Across America since 1999.  Dave Haase finished in second place…biking 3000 miles, coast to coast in a little over eight days.  Haase says he was able to stay ahead of bad weather, averaging more than 340 miles a day.  In addition to crossing the Rocky Mountains in Colorado…Haase says the […]

Construction is on schedule on a new front entrance  at the Fond du Lac city county government center. County executive Al Buechel says the project is slated for completion by the end of the month.  "They're pouring the steps, doing the outside work, most of the landscaping work, getting the fill in,"  Buechel said.   Buechel says the new entry way will be handicap accessible and will include an elevator.  The […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says 9,500 people have said they plan to attend his rally on Wednesday night in Madison.  The Vermont senator said during a conference call Tuesday that he will draw on Wisconsin's long progressive political history during the event. Sanders says he believes the progressive movement that existed for years in Wisconsin is now spreading throughout the country.  The Sanders visit comes […]