The Fond du Lac city council has approved a five year Parks and Recreation plan. Community Development Director Dyann Benson says the plan calls for developing three new parks over the next few years. "The South Park area, Hunters Grove and Meadowlands Park and those are three parks that will be serving some neighborhoods that are in need of some recreation and open space," Benson told WFDL news. Benson says the […]
The Fond du Lac city council has approved the annexation of property for residential development. Community development director Dyann Benson says the two acre parcel of land in the town of Fond du Lac is owned by Revest at W5149 Rienzi Road. Initiator of the petition is Jeffrey Berenz on behalf of Revest. Benson said the property is located within a City Growth Area under an intergovernmental agreement with the […]
The Waupun deputy police chief says it appears a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson Missouri shows the jury believed the physical evidence in the case outweighed the sometimes conflicting eyewitness accounts of what happened. The community erupted into unrest after the decision was announced. Waupun deputy police chief Scott Louden there's a process in place […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — About 50 students rallied on the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee campus to protest a grand jury's decision not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, officer who killed a black 18-year-old. Organized by student organizations and Milwaukee County Supervisor David Bowen, they started by standing silently with signs like, "We are Michael Brown," the teen killed in Missouri. They then chanted "Hands up, Don't Shoot" -- a refrain that […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Scores of protesters angry over a grand jury's refusal to issue an indictment in Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri, and plans for a new Dane County jail are filling downtown Madison's streets. The crowd marched from the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to the jail Tuesday afternoon, chanting "Hands up, don't shoot" and carrying a banner that read "stop racist police violence." They used Brown's death […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly 70,000 pages of emails and attachments collected during the first John Doe investigation into former aides and associates of Gov. Scott Walker during his time as Milwaukee County executive have been released. The information made public Tuesday is the fourth such release of emails and other documents prosecutors seized from county and personal computers during the investigation that ended in 2013. Walker was never charged […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Rep. Bill Kramer is headed to jail for five months after pleading no contest to fourth-degree sexual assault. Kramer, the former Assembly majority leader, reached a plea deal last month just before he was to go to trial on felony charges. He starts his sentence Dec. 4. Kramer, a Town of Waukesha Republican, was accused of groping a woman outside a GOP event at […]
Wisconsin consumers are gearing up for Black Friday and Wisconsin consumer protection officials are reminding you to have a plan. Consumer protection administerator Sandy Chalmers says planning ahead can help minimize confusion about event-specific terms and limitations you may face in the stores. Chalmers tells WFDL news Wisconsin law requires stores to charge their lowest advertised price for a product and to refund and overcharge.
A Fond du Lac woman has been charged with her 5th owi. Bail was set this week at $2000 cash for 63 year old Galina Luedtke. Police say Luedtke was drunk when she crashed her vehicle into a parked car at Linden and 9th Streets Sunday night. When officers arrived at the scene they say Luedtke was walking away from the scene. Luedtke was convicted of her fourth […]