In February the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office requested assistance from the public to help with selecting a new graphic design for Dodge County Squad Cars. After the request went out, the Sheriff received 100 different designs from citizens all over the county and from people of all ages. Sheriff’s office administration narrowed down the choices and the Sheriff made a final decision to go with a design that was submitted […]
A North Fond du Lac man has been convicted of setting his ex-girlfriend’s apartment on fire. At a hearing this week Laney Amons pleaded no contest to arson. He will be sentenced in October. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says Amons was accused of setting fire to the Home Town Harbor apartment complex on North Seymour Street a little more than a year ago. According to a criminal complaint […]
A Fond du Lac woman was killed in a two vehicle traffic crash on the Highway 151 Bypass. The Sheriff’s Office says a car operated by 80 year old Michael Butterfield of Fond du Lac was attempting to turn from the northbound lanes of the Bypass to travel west on Rienzi Road and turned his vehicle into the path of a southbound pick-up truck. A passenger, 86 year old Susan […]
Fond du Lac city officials are exploring an ordinance that would allow food trucks to operate throughout the city. Community Development director Diane Benson says the City’s current ordinance is limited to operating food trucks in the downtown and they must be associated with a restaurant. "So its a very limited ordinance and we'd like to potentially see that expanded if the council supports that as well as the advisory […]
Fond du Lac County officials are eyeing a site just outside the City of Fond du Lac for a new Highway garage and hope the county board will approve the land purchase this summer. Fond du Lac County Highway commissioner Tom Jahnke says the Highway Department has outgrown its current facility on Dixie Street. "You can kick the can down the road and we've been doing that for quite a […]
Fond du Lac fire officials say they are concerned about people trespassing on the site of an arson fire that destroyed a vacant former convent in Fond du lac. Division chief of Fire Prevention Troy Haase says the site has been declared unsafe and uninhabitable. "Its very dangerous. On the far end of that building there are floors that are missing stuff and if somebody is up there running around […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's unemployment rate increased to 4.6 percent in May, up from 4.4 percent in April. The state Department of Workforce Development reported the latest figures Thursday. The state came in below the national unemployment rate of 5.5 percent for the month and the previous year's rate in May, also 5.5 percent. The department also reports that the state lost 6,100 private sector jobs during the month […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Stepping closer to an all-but-inevitable White House bid, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has created a "testing the waters" committee that allows him to raise money for a presidential campaign. The two-term Republican governor has already been raising unlimited political donations through a tax-exempt group since January. And in April, former senior aides created a super PAC to bring in even more. The new committee allows Walker […]
Wisconsin political observers say when lawmakers will agree on a new state budget is anybody’s guess at this point. The legislature’s jt. Finance committee will not meet again until next week as lawmakers continue wrestling over which road projects would be affected by an $800 million cut in transportation funding. WisPolitics.com editor j.R. Ross told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program the other issue is whether funding for a […]