MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee authorities are investigating what appear to be two weather-related deaths. Both of the victims were discovered on Friday. A 63-year-old woman was found about 6:45 a.m. in a scorched trailer where police believed she was using her gas stove for heat. Investigators say it appears a hot oven may have ignited an adjacent cabinet and created a tremendous amount of smoke. Later in the day a […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin legislators are bringing back a bill that would impose a new fine on anyone convicted of soliciting prostitutes. The bill would impose a $5,000 fine on anyone convicted of patronizing, pandering or soliciting prostitutes or keeping a place of prostitution. The money would cover treatment and services for sex-trafficking victims as well as investigations of internet crimes against children. Republican state Sens. Andre Jacque and […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin tax collections are projected to be down about $282 million from a previous estimate , while the state will still collect about $2.4 billion more in taxes through the middle of 2021. The new estimates from the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau will be used by Gov. Tony Evers as he puts together his state budget proposal. Evers will submit the spending plan to the Legislature […]
Thirty years ago Thursday Fond du lac High School sophomore Jeff Merrill died playing the sport he loved. Merrill was on the Goodrich High School hockey team when he was struck in the chest with a hockey puck in a freak accident on the ice. Merrill died that evening at the hospital. This Saturday the Fondy Cardinal hockey team will be hosting JM 21 Night in rememberance of Merrill. Merrill’s […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers campaigned on the promise to increase funding for public schools by $1.4 billion and now a bipartisan legislative task force is also calling for significant spending hikes. Commission co-chair state Sen. Luther Olsen said Wednesday that he hopes the report provides an opportunity for Republicans and Democrats to work together on school funding. Olsen also says he hopes Evers would put some of […]
A Fond du Lac man faces multiple charges in connection with what police are describing as a drug related shooting. Assistant police chief Steve Klein says nobody was injured when at least three gunshots were fired into a home on east Ninth Street Monday afternoon. Nobody was inside the home at the time of the shooting. One of the bullets went through the home and entered a neighbor’s house.
Traffic is being re-routed following a two vehicle crash on the Johnson Street bridge in Fond du Lac. The crash happened shortly after 8am Thursday. One person received what were described as minor injuries.
A Van Dyne man was injured when a dog jumped on his gun and it went off while the man was was duck hunting. Fifty five year old Stewart Henderson drove himself to the hospital with birdshot in his leg following the incident this week in the Horicon Marsh in Dodge County. It’s the third duck hunting accident in the area within the past week.
The city of Fond du Lac is bypassing the Wastewater Treatment plant into Lake Winnebago in an effort to alleviate flooding and basement back-ups in the city. Public Works director Jordan Skiff says the city is closely watching water levels at Supple Marsh on the northwest side of town. "We're hearing multiple reports from residential areas on the north part of the city about water spreading south toward homes." Skiff […]