A public information meeting will be held Tuesday evening on a Fond du Lac road reconstruction project. A preliminary engineering plan will be discussed for improvements to North Rolling Meadows Drive. The project begins just north of Highway 23 and extends north through the southern Walmart driveway and is scheduled for next year. The project consists of adding a dedicated, slotted right turn lane, separated by curb and gutter and a […]
A Fond du Lac man has died after being pinned underneath a pick-up truck. Rescue personnel were called to the scene on Voyager Drive shortly after 11am Monday and found a 26 year old Fond du Lac man pinned underneath his F350 Ford pick up truck that was located in the driveway. The subject was pronounced dead at the scene. The initial investigation suggests that the man was underneath the […]
A Fond du Lac man involved in a shooting incident in downtown Fond du Lac last fall is going to prison. Fond du Lac judge Peter Grimm sentenced Marcus Britton to four years in prison and four years of extended supervision. Britton fired a gunshot into the air outside the Main Pub near 6th and South Main Streets last September. Nobody was injured. According to a criminal complaint Britton has […]
Waupun police had to subdue a man with a Taser after he was initially released to the custody of his mother. Police took the 25 year old man into custody on Friday morning for a drug related first time OWI offense. Because it was his first offense the man was released to the custody of his mother as an alternative to holding the subject in jail until he was sober. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says the voter identification law will not be in effect for the April 7 election. Schimel said Monday that because absentee voting has already begun, it is too late to implement the law for this election. But he says it will be in effect after that. The U.S. Supreme Court earlier Monday refused to hear a challenge to the law, clearing […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The head of elections in Wisconsin says he anticipates that there will be special elections later this year where photo identification will be required for people to vote. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to hear a challenge to the state's voter ID law, allowing it to be enforced. Attorney General Brad Schimel says it's too soon to the April 7 election to enforce […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says the U.S. Supreme Court's decision not to hear a challenge to the state's voter identification law is "great news for Wisconsin voters." He and other Republicans who backed the law cheered the court's decision Monday not to hear the case, which clears the way for the law to be implemented. Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel says it's too close to have it […]
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. (AP) — Spring came crashing down on winter weary residents in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois and Iowa with more than a foot of new snow in some areas. Schools in southwestern Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota canceled classes Monday as snowplows hit the highways and streets and the locals fired up their snow blowers or brought out their shovels for another round of winter like weather. The National […]
Construction on a new north entrance of the City/County Government Center begins Monday. The entrance will be closed and not accessible to the public or government employees. County executive Al Buechel says the upgrades will include an elevator and vestibule area to create a more handicapped accessible entrance. Alternate public and employee entrances can be found on the east and west side of the building. Additionally, a section of the […]