CHICAGO (AP) — Federal appeals court judges considering whether to uphold gay marriage bans in Indiana and Wisconsin are reserving their toughest questions for the states, asking how the bans help society, especially children of same-sex couples. A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case Tuesday. Judge Richard Posner, the panel's lone Republican appointee, bristled when a Wisconsin assistant attorney general […]
Waupun has a new fire chief. Longtime Waupun firefighter William "B.J." DeMaa Junior officially started this week. "I'm going to be spending the first week here training alongside Jeff (Berry) and learning some of the administrative pieces of the department and starting next week I begin on my own," DeMaa told WFDL news. DeMaa replaces Jeff Berry who is retiring. DeMaa is a Waupun native who started as a volunteer […]
A longtime Waupun police officer is retiring. Chief Dale Heeringa says School Liason officer Patti Toll is stepping down September 12th. "Patti worked her way through the ranks in our police department, currently working as our school liason officer for several years and Patti is going to retire and call it quits," Heeringa told AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program. Heeringa says officer Jason Hraban will replace Toll as […]
Fond du Lac County law enforcement will be joining forces this holiday weekend in an effort to make it a safe weekend on area roads. Sheriff’s captain Rick Olig says the Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign will focus on drunken driving, underage drinking, social hosting, dangerous driving and seatbelt violations. Olig says the enforcement campaign will also target aggressive, dangerous drivers. Olig says don’t drink and drive. Always […]
On August 25th, 2014 at approximately 10:00 am, the Dodge County Central Communications Center received information that a 6 year old child had called to report a fire at her home. The child called the Dodge County Human Services Department; they relayed the information to Sheriff’s Office Communications Officers. Communications Officers immediately determined the address of the call and confirmed its location in the Town of Elba. Police and […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Police in Wisconsin say that before she died, a wounded woman called 911 and identified the person who shot her as her brother-in-law, who had been a sheriff's deputy. A police affidavit says Kacee Tollefsbol called 911 around 1 p.m. Friday and said Andy Steele had shot her in the back. The affidavit says the 38-year-old Tollefsbol, of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, also told a detective that […]
The North Fond du Lac school board has approved a preliminary 2014-15 budget. Superintendent Aaron Sadoff says the budget includes a projected deficit of 340,000 depending on final enrollment and equalized state aid. "We don't know how many kids we're going to have, that's the third Friday count in September and also in January. We don't know what the final aid from the state is going to be. We don't know […]
EAST TROY, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin music venue tucked away in the rolling hills of Walworth County that has hosted such musical greats as the Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam and the Grateful Dead is for sale. Alpine Valley Music Theatre is also the place where guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and four others were killed in a helicopter crash following a performance on Aug. 27, 1990. Now the amphitheater and […]
Thunderstorms packing strong winds knocked down tree limbss and power lines in Waupun Monday causing some power outages. Waupun utilities say more than two dozen trees sustained major damage. Tree limbs across the street blocked traffic on Watertown and Taylor Streets. More than two dozen customers were without power for several hours.