The Department of Public Works would like to notify the motoring public of street closures due to the City’s Manhole Rehabilitation Project and utility repair. The northbound traffic lane and parking on South Military Road will be closed between Hickory Street and C&N Railroad Tracks. The closure will begin Tuesday, October 14th and continue through Friday, October 17th. Traffic will be detoured north on Hickory Street, east on Western Avenue […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The signature dishes served at supper clubs that long served as Wisconsin's culinary and social backbone will be under the microscope during next week's statewide science festival. The festival kicks off Thursday with a free event at University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on ingredients like the maraschino cherries that garnish drinks and vegetables served before dinner on relish trays. One speaker will be Ron Faiola, a Milwaukee-area resident […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court won't reconsider a decision allowing Wisconsin officials to re-implement the state's voter photo identification law. The 7th Circuit released documents Friday announcing that Judge Richard Posner had asked all 10 judges to reconsider Monday's decision, saying voter ID laws put an undue burden on the right to vote. The judges deadlocked 5-5 on the request, however, meaning it was denied.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The board that oversees Wisconsin elections has scrapped plans for a campaign to educate the public about the state's voter photo identification law. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision yesterday preventing Wisconsin's law from going into effect before the November 4th election.
The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office and Medical Examiner’s Office are investigating the death of an infant. Sheriff’s deputies and Ripon ambulance were called to a town of Ripon residence Friday morning to a report of a two month old girl not breathing. The child was transported to Ripon Medical Center where she died. The investigation is ongoing and the death is not considered suspicious at this […]
Nobody was injured and one man is in custody in connection with a domestic incident in Fond du Lac County Friday morning. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office received a call shortly after 2am of a report of shots fired at a residence on Lost Arrow Road. "The caller met with deputies a short distance away from the residence and deputies interviewed him and determined shots had been fired," Nolan […]
Authorities have released the name of the victim killed in a traffic accident in Fond du lac County Thursday. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says 73 year old Richard Zoelle of Brownsville was pronounced dead at the scene at County Highways K and F in the town of Eden. Investigators say Zoelle was stopped at a stop sign and then for an unknown reason pulled into traffic and […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked Wisconsin from implementing a law requiring voters to present photo IDs. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday declared the law constitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union followed that up the next day with an emergency request to the Supreme Court asking it to block the ruling ahead of the November election. On Thursday night the nation's highest […]
A sentencing hearing will be held later this month for a Mayville High School teen convicted of causing a crash that sent eight people to the hospital. Eighteen year old Sidney Lehman, pleaded guilty in Washington County Circuit Court to four misdemeanor counts of reckless driving causing bodily harm and resisting and obstructing a police officer. A felony count of second degree recklessly endangering safety was dismissed and read into […]