Month: April 2015

Dozens of firefighters helped fight an out of control brush fire off Highway 45 north of the Lakeside Park west entrance Thursday morning.  Fond du Lac fire chief Pete O’Leary says the fire in Supple’s Marsh was reported around 8am.  The fire burned several acres and was out by 9:30am.  O’Leary says firefighters were working to prevent the fire from jumping over the highway and spreading to the west.   […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court justices have moved quickly to replace longtime Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson with Justice Patience Roggensack.  The move Wednesday came after results of a constitutional amendment removing seniority as the sole determinant of who is chief were certified and as a federal lawsuit seeking to delay implementation is pending.  Abrahamson's attorney Robert Peck says in a letter filed in a federal court that Abrahamson […]

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A man accused of causing the death of his fiancee's 4-year-old son will stand trial in Sheboygan County. Armando Aguirre says he was playing with the boy and swinging him around by the legs when his head hit the carpet. But prosecutors say the child's injuries aren't consistent with Aguirre's explanation. A sheriff's detective testified yesterday that Aguirre initially said the child sustained a "glancing blow," […]

Anthony Alvarado and Doug Darby say their story of recovery is hope for other heroin addicts who don’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.  The pair formed the group Rise Together and brought their message of hope and survival to Fond du Lac yesterday…speaking to high school juniors and seniors Wednesday afternoon and at a heroin summit Wednesday night at the High School Performing Arts Center.  "Let's […]

A Milwaukee man who was accidentally shot during  an armed robbery in  Fond du Lac County is going to prison.  Fond du Lac judge Gary Sharpe sentenced Danny Morris to five years in prison followed By ten years extended supervision.  In December 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 […]

A Kenosha man charged with killing a teenager in 1990 has been ordered to stand trial in Fond du Lac County.  Sixty-one-year-old Dennis Brantner faces a charge of first-degree murder in the death of Berit Beck. The 18-year-old was traveling from her home in Sturtevant to Appleton for a computer training seminar when she disappeared. Her van was found a few days later in a Fond du Lac parking lot, […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican legislators are circulating a bill that would merge Wisconsin's two major economic development agencies into a new entity.  Gov. Scott Walker's budget calls for merging the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority into the Forward Wisconsin Development Authority. WEDC and WHEDA leaders told the Legislature's finance committee last month the change would create a one-stop shop to help communities […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he doesn't have the votes to repeal prevailing wage but will look to reform it.  Vos says he supports a full repeal of prevailing wage but it's likely that lawmakers will insert changes to prevailing wage law into Gov. Scott Walker's budget. He did not elaborate.  Under current Wisconsin law, workers on state or local public works projects or on […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Results of the April 7 election have been certified, including a constitutional amendment that gives justices of the Wisconsin Supreme Court the ability to elect who will serve as chief justice.  The Government Accountability Board chairman on Wednesday approved the canvas of the election results. About 18.4 percent of the voting-age population cast ballots in the election.  Now that approval of the Supreme Court constitutional amendment […]