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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A high-ranking New York City education official accused of arranging a sexual encounter in Wisconsin with someone he thought was a 14-year-old boy has been placed on electronic home monitoring. Thirty-nine-year-old David Hay made his first court appearance Friday in Green Bay on charges of child enticement and possession of child pornography. A federal judge placed him on electronic home monitoring. Hay's attorney, Jonathan Smith, […]

Investigators say a Fond du Lac man arrested for starting a fire in a vacant house this week, had started fires in his apartment the day before.   Fond du Lac Firefighters were called to the vacant house on Allen Street Monday afternoon where they quickly extinguished a  fire that had been set to some cardboard boxes inside the building.  Division Chief of Fire Prevention Troy Haase tells WFDL news the day before, firefighters were […]

PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff's officials say the death of an inmate at the Columbia Correctional Institution is under investigation. The Columbia County Sheriff's Office says the death of 68-year-old Larry Bracey Jr. appears to be from natural causes, but toxicology test results are still pending. Paramedics were called to a restrictive housing unit at the maximum-security men's prison in Portage on Dec. 3, where Bracey was pronounced dead in […]

The Fond du Lac Fire Chief says he believes local law enforcement and first responders are prepared for dangerous situations, like incidents that occurred last week at two Wisconsin high schools.   Last week school resource officers at high schools in Waukesha and Oshkosh shot and injured armed students.   No other students were injured in either incident.   Fond du Lac Fire Chief Pete O’Leary says the Fire Department has worked closely with police in developing a […]

An arctic air mass is bringing the coldest air of the season to the Badger state.   National Weather Service meteorologist Cameron Miller says high temps will be in the low to mid teens with overnight lows in the single digits over the next couple of days and nights.  Miller says the temperature difference ahead of and behind the cold front is dramatic.  "We actually saw in Minnesota, there's about a 60 […]

Two Fond du Lac men were killed in a one vehicle crash in Fond du lac County.  It happened shortly after 1am Thursday on Highway D in the area of Miranda Way.   A passerby reported a southbound vehicle struck a pole and split in half.  The victims have been identified as the driver, 28 year old Louis Bradbury,  and passenger, 24 year old Vincent Eastham, both of Fond du Lac.  They were […]

Prosecutors have charged a Madison man with damaging the Wisconsin Supreme Court chambers. Court records show 26-year-old Timothy Binford was charged Monday with felony property damage and disorderly conduct. According to a criminal complaint, Binford smashed a table and threw papers, name plates and electronics around the chambers on Nov. 26. He told investigators that he touched two statutes, saw dragons and snakes on one of them and a “fury […]

Authorities have identified the victims of a fatal house fire in the town of Beaver Dam.  The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says 82 year old Eleanor Neumann was pronounced dead at the hospital.  Ninety-one year old Ruben Neumann was treated at the hospital for non life-threatening injuries.  Firefighters from seven departments battled the fire Thursday night on Watercress Road .   The cause of the fire remains under investigation.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers want more diaper-changing stations in Wisconsin.  Reps. Jonathan Brostoff and David Crowley along with Sen. Chris Larson have introduced a bill that would require public and commercial buildings built or renovated after the bill becomes law to have diaper-changing stations in every restroom. Owners of commercial buildings with public restrooms would have to post signs identifying bathrooms with changing stations.  Brostoff says he’s a new […]