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The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in locating two Huber inmate walkaways.     Authorities say Kaden Solano removed his GPS monitoring bracelet and failed to return to the jail.   The Fond du Lac man was serving a 360 day sentence for auto theft.   Gabrielle Bruce failed to return after a doctor’s appointment.   She was serving a  sentence for disorderly conduct.  Anyone with information on the whereabouts of these individuals is […]

CRANDON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of someone who is poisoning pets and wildlife in northern Wisconsin. Four dogs have died in the past month in Forest County. Testing on two of them confirmed that the pets died from poisoning. Tests are pending after two more dogs died last weekend. Officials believe the deaths […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — More than 50 people who voted in person or worked the polls during Wisconsin’s election earlier this month have tested positive for COVID-19 so far. But there are no plans to move or otherwise alter a special congressional election coming in less than two weeks.  Democratic Gov. Tony Evers tried to move to a mail-order election but was blocked by the Republican Legislature and conservative controlled […]

Police are investigating a shooting that left five people dead at a house in Milwaukee. Chief Alfonso Morales says his department received a call around 10:30 a.m. Monday from a man who said his family was dead. Officers discovered five victims ranging in age from 14 to 41 at the house on the city’s north side. They also found a baby the shooter apparently spared. Morales said during a news […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democrats in the Wisconsin state Senate have picked Janet Bewley as their new leader. The caucus elected her minority leader on Friday, replacing Jennifer Shilling. Shilling announced earlier this month that she won't seek re-election this fall and stepped down as leader Friday, saying her given her decision not to run again the caucus would be better served with new leadership. Bewley hails from Mason and […]

Wisconsin corrections officials say they don't know how three more inmates in the state's prison system contracted the coronavirus.   The Department of Corrections believes the first prisoner with a confirmed case of COVID-19 April 2 was exposed while on a trip outside the Columbia Correctional Institution.   On Sunday, the DOC confirmed three additional cases in the system. The three inmates had not left the prisons recently, according to DOC spokeswoman […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appeals court has refused to block extended absentee voting deadlines for Wisconsin’s presidential primary. A number of states have delayed their spring elections as the coronavirus sweeps across the country but Wisconsin leaders have insisted on going forward with Tuesday’s election. U.S. District Judge William Conley on Thursday extended the deadline for voters to file absentee ballots from Election Day to April 13. Republicans […]

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man wanted on several warrants.  According to the Sheriff’s Office, when the Sheriff’s tactical team arrived on the scene in Reeseville Monday afternoon the suspect, 41 year old Ricky Hardy, had broken out a second story window and was on a porch roof.   He was then taken into custody.     Hardy was wanted for a number of offenses including felony escape, resisting arrest, child neglect […]

Area law enforcement and the state Fire Marshal’s Office are investigating   a series of suspicious fires in Fond du lac and North Fond du Lac.   The first fire  Thursday morning significantly damaged a duplex on North Military Road in Fond du lac.  The following morning firefighters were called to fires on Maine Avenue, Lakeshore Drive, Meadowlark Court and Clinton Street in the village of North Fond du lac.  Law enforcement is […]