A 26-year-old Fond du Lac woman is charged with felony child abuse after she was caught on video jamming cotton swabs into her son's ears, causing them to bleed. According to the complaint, Jenna Schumacher took her 15-month-old son to Children's Hospital of Wisconsin for treatment of chronic ear bleeding and perforated eardrums. The complaint says doctors found no medical reason for the ear injuries, but discovered a piece of […]
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says the driver of a semi died after he suffered a medical condition before his semi crashed into a cornfield Wednesday morning. Rescue personnel were called to the scene on East Larson Drive and Hickory Road shortly before 8am. The Fond du Lac County Dispatch Center received a call of a semi that traveled through the stop sign at E. Larson Dr. and Hickory […]
The Fond du Lac County Board has approved a 2015 budget. The board adopted the budget at their meeting Tuesday night with county board supervisors Thomas Schumacher and Dennis Stenz voting against. County executive Al Buechel says the budget includes funding to reinstate county membership into the East Central Regional Plan commission for the first time since 1982. "There are different services that are being provided that our municipalities can't […]
The Fond du Lac County Board has approved a five year capital improvement plan. County Executive Al Buechel says the big ticket item is reconstructing a six mile stretch of County Highway I that runs parallel to Highway 41. "That is the poorest quality road we have in the county right now," Buechel said. "They'll widen the road, increase the shoulders and straighten the curves." Buechel says the CIP also […]
Nobody was injured and one person is in custody following a shooting incident in Fond du lac. Police were called to the area of 427 W. Johnson Street near Taco Bell shortly before midnight Monday night to a report of shots fired in the parking lot of a business. A vehicle matching the description of a suspect vehicle was spotted in the 700 block of Crestview Lane with […]
Fond du Lac police are investigating the death of a 43-year-old Fond du Lac man. Fond du Lac Assistant Police Chief Steve Thiry said investigators do not believe the death is suspicious. Police were called to an apartment at 27 Third St. Monday after friends found the man without a pulse.
Fond du Lac's Lakeshore Elementary School was recently recognized as one of eight schools in Wisconsin to receive a 2014 National Blue Ribbon Award. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction nominated Lakeshore School for the National Blue Ribbon School Award. National Blue Ribbon Schools are celebrated for their student and faculty achievements as well as promoting collaborative activities with families. Lakeshore staff represents some of the most skilled and effective […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's gun deer license sales are lagging dramatically behind last year's pace. Department of Natural Resources data shows hunters had purchased 565,663 licenses as of Monday. That's down about 11,175 licenses from the same point last year. DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp told reporters during a conference call Tuesday previewing the gun deer season that deep snow in northern Wisconsin may be discouraging hunters in that region […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin is home to an estimated 85,000 people who immigrated illegally, three-fourths of them from Mexico. That's according to a new study released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. It focuses on illegal immigration from 2009 to 2012. The study says illegal immigration has been largely stable nationwide since 2009. It had declined during the recession after peaking in 2007 at 12.2 million people. The study estimates […]