Fire heavily damaged a Fond du Lac business Wednesday night. On November 19th, 2014 at 11:35pm, the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office and the Town of Fond du Lac Fire Department were dispatched to Carls Cars located at N6594 N Rolling Meadows Drive for a structure fire. The business had extensive damage which included a couple of customer’s vehicles that were inside the building for repairs. The cause of […]
The National Weather Service says temperatures in Wisconsin this week have been 20 to 30 degrees below normal for this time of year. Meteorologist J.J Wood says the polar vortex is to blame. Wood says normal high temps are in the mid 40s this time of year. Wood says it may be a colder start to the winter…but the long range forecast is still 50-50 on whether we’ll see colder […]
Following heavy rain earlier this month the bitter cold and snow this week is making it difficult for area farmers to get their field corn harvested before winter sets in. Fond du lac County Crops and Soils agent Mike Rankin says the entire growing season was delayed from the beginning. "We had a much cooler summer as well, decent temperatures in September and most of October but the crop was […]
A handful of residents who live along Highway 45 south of Fond du Lac are fighting to preserve dozens of old, majestic trees that face the ax as part of a highway reconstruction project. Fuller McBride says the DOT plans to remove more than three dozen trees when the Highway 45 project between Fond du lac and Eden begins in 2018. McBride says he doesn’t buy the DOT argument that […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Four development groups are in the running to develop what would become the largest state-owned office building in Wisconsin. The project is to buy and replace the existing 400,000-square-foot building housing the state Department of Transportation in Madison. The successful bidder would also buy and be allowed to develop the remainder of the 21-acre site. Terrence Wall, a former Republican U.S. Senate candidate, leads one development […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A former priest accused of sexual abuse won't be getting any money from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee in its bankruptcy case. Federal bankruptcy Judge Susan Kelley has tossed out a claim from Marvin Knighton, who says he was wrongly defrocked and money he contributed to his retirement account should be returned to him. Knighton was charged with child sexual abuse in 2002 but acquitted by a jury […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Three families of children with disabilities are challenging Wisconsin's law that allows students to open enroll at schools outside their home district, saying it violates federal disability law. The families are represented by the conservative group the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty. The group announced on Wednesday that it had filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Madison. The lawsuit alleges that Wisconsin's […]
A Fond du Lac woman convicted of multiple drunken driving offenses is going to prison. Fond du lac judge Gary Sharpe sentenced 43 year old Tamara L. Strean to six years in prison followed by 10 years of extended supervision for her seventh and eighth OWI. She was arrested for her seventh OWI offense in August of last year and her eighth OWI in March of this year.
A Fond du Lac man arrested in connection with a shooting incident in the Taco Bell parking lot this week has been charged. Nineteen year old Dao Vang made his initial court appearance on charges of first degree recklessly endangering safety, carrying a concealed weapon and obstructing an officer. According to a criminal complaint Vang fired a shot from a pistol into the air following an argument over a marijuana […]