MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A liberal group has filed a complaint alleging Wisconsin attorney general hopeful Brad Schimel used nearly $500 in campaign donations to pay his children's baby sitters between 2009 and 2013. One Wisconsin Now filed the complaint with the Government Accountability Board on Wednesday.
A Fond du lac woman has been convicted of stealing more than $250,000 from her employer. Forty eight year old Denis Heffner pleaded no contest to two counts of theft from a business setting…accused of stealing the money from Sesing Construction where she was employed as a bookkeeper.
TOWN OF RANDOLPH, Wis. (AP) — Officials estimate about 1,000 gallons of fuel spilled from an overturned tanker truck and into a marsh near Randolph in Columbia County. Emergency management director Pat Beghin says a witness told authorities it looked like the driver of the tanker swerved to avoid hitting an animal in the roadway — possibly a deer — and crashed Tuesday. The driver was taken from the scene […]
On Tuesday October 7, 2014 at approximately 11:30pm, the Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office along with Town of Fond du Lac and Van Dyne Fire Departments responded to a structure fire at the Agromatic A.F. Klinzing Company at N6989 Rolling Meadows Drive in the Town of Fond du Lac. Also assisting at the scene was North Fond du Lac Ambulance, Fond du Lac City Police Dept. and fire departments […]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — If you missed April's total eclipse of the moon, now's your chance. But you'll need to get up early. Depending on cloud cover, North Americans will have prime viewing early Wednesday of a full lunar eclipse, especially in the West. The full moon will be obscured by Earth's shadow in the pre-dawn hours. The total eclipse will last an hour — until sunrise on the […]
OCONTO, Wis. (AP) — A man and a woman have been sentenced to jail terms for having sex in a squad car after they were pulled over for drunken driving in northeastern Wisconsin. Thirty three-year-old Travis Husnik, of Luxemburg, and 29-year-old Heather Basten, of New Franken, were being taken to the Oconto County Jail on Aug. 3 when they started having sex. The deputy stopped them. They were charged with […]
A Beaver Dam man has been convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage girl. Fond du Lac judge Dale English ordered an imposed and stayed eight year prison sentence and ten years probation for 29 year old Derek Schroeder. As a condition of probation Shroeder will spend six months in jail. According to a criminal complaint Shroeder had sex with a 16 year old girl from Waupun he met on a dating […]
Just because you can talk to your car doesn't mean you should. Two studies have found that voice-activated smartphones and dashboard infotainment systems may be making the distracted-driving problem worse. The studies released Tuesday by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and the University of Utah found the systems let drivers do things like tune the radio, send a text message, or make a phone call while keeping their eyes […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — First lady Michelle Obama is rallying young voters in Wisconsin's governor's race, saying if they show up to vote Republican Gov. Scott Walker can be defeated. Obama appeared at a rally near the University of Wisconsin campus. College students stood behind Obama on the stage as she urged young people to vote in the election for Mary Burke, saying she will fight to make college more […]