Three people received non life-threatening injuries and two were transported to the hospital following a one vehicle rollover crash in Fond du Lac. The accident happened shortly before noon Sunday at the intersection of 9th and Linden Streets.
A Fond du Lac woman escaped with only minor injuries in a one vehicle accident in Dodge County that could have had a more devastating outcome. On Sunday at about 7:30 pm, the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office responded to a crash on Highway 151 near County Trunk G in the Town of Beaver Dam. The car, driven by 49 year old Tina Groeschel of Fond du Lac, was northbound when […]
Construction is expected to begin this week on a major road reconstruction project in Fond du Lac County. Governor Scott Walker has approved the nearly $11 million project on a 16-mile stretch of Highway 26 from Cattaraugus Drive to County Highway FF. In addition to replacing pavement, a curve in the road near Willow Creek Road will be realigned and reconstructed. Fond du lac County Sherif’s Captain Rick Olig says […]
A Fond du Lac man and his climbing team has been airlifted by helicopter to base camp on Mt. Everest following a massive earthquake that struck Nepal. Fifty two year old Andy Land left March 25th for the epic climb. His wife Mary Sue Land tells WFDL news she talked with her husband Friday…and was alerted early Saturday morning by a neighbor about the earthquake. Mary Sue says she learned Andy […]
L-R Jason Padgett, WFDL news director Greg Stensland, Dr. Darold Treffert Jason Padgett says if he ran into the two men who savagely beat him in 2002, he would probably thank them. Padgett was attacked outside a karaoke bar in Tacoma Washington, leaving him with a severe concussion and post-traumatic stress disorder. But the incident also turned Padgett into a mathematical savant who sees the world through the lens […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State attorneys are asking a judge to toss out a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's right-to-work law. The Wisconsin AFL-CIO, Machinists Local Lodge 1061 in Milwaukee and United Steelworkers District 2 in Menasha filed a lawsuit last month in Dane County Circuit Court alleging that the law amounts to an unconstitutional seizure of union property since unions now must extend benefits to workers who don't pay dues. Attorneys […]
Nobody was seriously injured and one person was arrested after a stand off and hostage situation in Green Lake County, near the Marquette County line. The incident happened Thursday at a farm on State Highway 73. The Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office says a man had fired at least one shot from an assault rifle as two residents of the farm were attempting to leave, and held an elderly […]
A Fond du lac man accused of sexually assaulting his adopted special needs daughters over a period of more than a decade has been found not guilty. A Fond du Lac jury on Friday found 67 year old Kenneth Kirchner not guilty on three counts of child sex assault and one count of child abuse. According to a criminal complaint Kirchner adopted the three sisters after they were removed from […]
A Milwaukee man has been found guilty in the heroin overdose death of a Fond du Lac woman. A Fond du Lac County jury returned the guilty verdict Friday afternoon against Roy Whitelow. Whitelow was convicted of first degree reckless homicide in the death of Heather Fugate. Fond du Lac County District attorney, Eric Toney says convicting someone under the Len Bias law can be difficult, especially when the victim […]