On Tuesday June 16, 2015 at approximately 5:20am, the Fond du lac County Communications Center received a report of a one vehicle roll-over accident with one female subject lying in roadway on STH 44-49 and Pollack Road in the Town of Metomen. The Fond du Lac Sheriff’s Office along with Brandon-Fairwater Fire Department and Ripon Ambulance responded to the scene. Initial investigation indicates that 18 year old driver and lone […]
The Fond du lac Alcohol and Licensing committee is recommending the city council deny the renewal of the historic Retlaw Hotel’s liquor license. The committee voted to recommend denial at their meeting Monday night. Committee member and council vice president Gary Miller says he was surprised that no one representing the hotel showed up at the meeting. "Very surprised," Miller told WFDL news. "Nobody showed up, so we moved ahead […]
A longtime Fond du Lac middle school science teacher says he is concerned that the Fond du Lac School District is in decline. Ted Eischeid is retiring after teaching for 25 years in the Fond du Lac School district. He aired his concerns at last week’s Fond du Lac School Board meeting. "I thought it was my responsibility as I left to let them (school board) know in an appropriate […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — New 70 mph speed limit signs are being posted this week on interstates and highways in Wisconsin this week. The state Department of Transportation said Monday that crews will start installing about 470 updated speed limit signs on Tuesday. About 810 miles of Wisconsin interstates and highways will have speed limits increased to 70 mph from the current 65 mph. The DOT says drivers can start […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The chairman of the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board is responding to a recent audit that found nearly one in 11 licensed physicians in Wisconsin were not in compliance with continuing education requirements. Physicians in Wisconsin must log 30 hours of continuing medical education every two years, a requirement past board chairman Sheldon Wasserman says is lowest in the nation. But, the current chairman, Dr. Kenneth Simons, […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of Gov. Scott Walker's former aides has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to toss out her conviction for campaigning on government time. Kelly Rindfleisch served as Walker's deputy chief of staff when Walker was the Milwaukee County executive. Prosecutors accused her of working on Walker's gubernatorial campaign and Republican Brett Davis' lieutenant government campaign out of her county office. She was convicted in 2012 of […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrat Russ Feingold and Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson are sparring over how a political action committee created by Feingold has spent its money. Campaign finance records show the Progressives United PAC founded by Feingold spent only 5 percent of its income on federal candidates and political parties. About half the money went toward overhead. Feingold's campaign manager Tom Russell argues the PAC was a new […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The outspoken founder of the Madison-based Freedom From Religion Foundation has died. The foundation wrote on its website Monday that 88-year-old Anne Nicol Gaylor died just before midnight Sunday following complications from a May 30 fall in her apartment. Gaylor co-founded the atheist and agnostic awareness group in 1976 along with her daughter Annie Laurie Gaylor. The elder Gaylor served as president until 2004. The group […]
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Heavy rains have caused street flooding in Appleton. Appleton's Department of Public Works and local law enforcement agencies have been overwhelmed with callers reporting flooded streets. Flooded roads are reported in the City of Appleton, Grand Chute and other cities in Outagamie County. The sheriff's office says one area in the Town of Freedom was reported to have several feet of water. No damage to houses […]