Construction will begin Thursday on a small stretch of Highway 151 in Fond du Lac. Gov. Scott Walker has approved $625,000 for reconstruction of point two miles of 151 near the Ducharme Parkway intersection. Construction will begin Thursday and finish in August. The project will involve adding the east leg of Ducharme Parkway to the existing three-legged intersection; and installing slotted left-turn lanes on 151. Left turns and through […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) â A white Wisconsin police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in an internal investigation of his fatal shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old biracial man. The Madison Police Department on Wednesday issued a summary of its finding that Officer Matt Kenny did not violate its deadly force policies in the March 6 shooting death of 19-year-old Tony Robinson. The internal decision follows one last month by Dane […]
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) An aircraft manufacturer says the company's chief executive and a mechanic were killed in a crash in one of its planes in eastern Wisconsin. Sonex Aircraft says CEO Jeremy Monnett and assembly mechanic Mike Clark died Tuesday when their single-engine plane crashed near Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh, about 90 miles northwest of Milwaukee. Forty-year-old Jeremy Monnett is the son of Sonex founder, John Monnett, who […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) A state Senate committee is scheduled to vote Thursday on a bill that would ban non-emergency abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Two Wisconsin health committees took up testimony on the fast-tracked bill during a public hearing Tuesday. Under the proposal, doctors who perform an abortion after 20 weeks in non-emergency situations could be charged with a felony and subject to $10,000 in fines or 3 […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) A Wisconsin Assembly committee has advanced a bill that would allow businesses to keep a supply of epinephrine injectors to be used in case of life-threatening allergic reactions. The Health Committee unanimously approved the bill Wednesday. The committee changed the bill to make clear that businesses may offer the drug, but aren't required to have it on hand. Schools are already allowed to keep a supply […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) Wisconsin brewers, liquor manufacturers, restaurants and the state chamber of commerce are all opposing possible changes to the state's alcohol distribution law. The groups have been lobbying Republicans who control the Legislature and Gov. Scott Walker in recent weeks, urging them to reject changes to the law they say are being pushed by an unnamed wholesaler. Opponents say the changes being sought would require that a […]
Back to School FDL, a one-day annual shopping opportunity for students needing help getting school supplies, will be held on Saturday, August 22 at the YMCA/Fond du Lac Boys and Girls Club site at West Second Street. The Back to School FDL event is organized through a collaboration of agencies, businesses, churches, and community members, and is dedicated to ensuring that all students in need, who are enrolled or planning […]
At approximately 530am on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015, the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of mailboxes being vandalized just east of the City of Fond du Lac. Initial reports indicate that approximately 50 mailboxes were damaged or pulled from the ground and thrown in the roadway. The mailboxes were located on Rienzi Rd., Grandview Rd., Rienhardt Rd., Walnut Rd. and CTH’s H and K. The Fond […]
Two Fond du Lac men charged in connection with drug-related armed robbery have been convicted on a lesser charge. As part of a plea agreement Prentice Shipp and Delaney Watt pleaded no contest to theft charges. Both were initially charged with armed robbery accused of robbing a man at gunpoint in the Pioneer Road Pick N Save parking lot last August. They will be sentenced at a later date.