Month: December 2014

On January 1, 2015, at 1:35 p.m. the Fond du Lac Fire Department responded to 82 N. Berger Parkway for a reported apartment building fire.  On arrival fire crews found a small fire burning outside a first floor unit.  The fire burned through the outer wall and began to burn part of the interior structure in the basement.  The fire was quickly extinguished and the building was ventilated.  Building smoke […]

The City of Fond du Lac’s Parks Division is pleased to announce the opening of the McDermott Park Ice Skate Rink. The rink will open Thursday, January 1st, 2015 and remain open as long as the weather allows. The warming hut will be opened from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm Saturdays and Sundays; however for the opening week the warming hut will be open January 1st through January 4th from […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Emails related to a probe of Gov. Scott Walker's associates when he was Milwaukee County executive show his staff referred to his gubernatorial campaign as "the dark side." County officials on Tuesday released more than 227,000 pages of emails and other records seized during the investigation that ended last year.  They show county staff used private emails to conduct campaign business and communicate with Walker and […]

A Fond du lac County man has been convicted in a traffic crash that claimed the life of a Campbellsport teenager.    At a hearing Tuesday 20 year old Gilberto Castenada-Bobadilla avoided trial by pleading no contest to an amended charge of homicide by negligient operation of a motor vehicle and injury by use of a vehicle while under the influence of a controlled substance.  A pre-sentence investigation was ordered. […]

A Cudahy man has been convicted in connection with a high speed chase that ended in a crash in Fond du Lac.  Twenty eight year old Michael Connerton pleaded no contest to charges of   recklessly endangering safety and eluding an officer.  The August 5th chase started when a Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office deputy attempted to stop a vehicle on Highway 45 near Eden.  Cudahy police had reported the […]

A Milwaukee man who was accidentally shot during  an armed robbery in Fond du Lac County a year ago has been convicted.  Danny Morris.entered an Alford plea to a charge of party to the crime of armed robbery.  One count of burglary and two counts of theft were dismissed and read into the record.  Morris and two other men were arrested  in connection with the December 2013 robbery at a […]

A Fond du Lac man convicted in the armed robbery of a gas station-convenience store is going to prison.  Fond du lac judge Gary Sharpe sentenced Jeremiah Owens to three years in prison and five years extended supervision.  Owens earlier pleaded no contest to one count of robbery with threat of force.   Owens was convicted in the armed robbery of the Speedway gas station-convenience store on West Johnson Street  in […]

A North Fond du Lac man accused of racking up thousands of dollars  worth of unauthorized purchases on two stolen credit cards is going to prison.  Forty seven year old Kevin Emerich pleaded no contest to one count of theft.  More than 50 counts of  identity theft for financial gain as a repeat offender were dismissed and read into the record.  Fond du lac judge Richard Nuss sentenced Emerich to […]

A Fond du Lac man is accused of stealing nearly a half million dollars from a Fond du Lac business.  Sixty one year old Robert Mohr made his initial court appearance Tuesday on a charge of theft in a business setting.  He is free on a thousand dollar signature bond.  Mohr is accused of stealing $461,000 over an eight year period while he helped run the Higher Level youth basketball […]