Month: November 2015

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Corrections is implementing a new overtime policy as it deals with a shortage of correctional officers.  Corrections officials say overtime will be assigned on a rotation system instead of forcing the newest officers to work those shifts when no one else has volunteered. Veteran guards and sergeants will now be assigned overtime.  Corrections Secretary Ed Wall recently put the policy into effect, saying […]

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has launched a new tool to aid in emergency situations: Text-to-9-1-1.  Sheriff Dale Schmidt says that customers of the four major wireless carriers- AT&T, Sprint, Verizon & T- Mobile- along with US Cellular and Cricket, can now send text messages to 911 in Dodge County . There are more than 6,000 Public Safety Answering Points in the nation, and the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office is […]

Fond du Lac city officials hope to issue a request for proposals to hire a consultant to help the city come up with a master plan for development options at Lakeside Park.  Public Works Director Jordan Skiff says the city hopes to review proposals in late December and have the consultant begin their work in January.  The city has earmarked $20,000 to hire a consultant.  Skiff says the plan is […]

Twenty eight Wisconsin counties including Fond du lac and Dodge are getting some added help for veterinary services.  The Wisconsin Department of Ag, Trade and Consumer Protection says the counties, previously underserved by veterinarians will receive payments administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.  The program provides veterinary services un rural, underserved areas by awarding loan repayment benefits to new veterinarians in exchange for […]

The Waupun fire chief says it doesn’t appear there were working smoke detectors in two separate residential fires that caused significant damage.  But fire chief B.J. DeMaa says in both fires, at a mobile home on West Center Road Friday and a house fire on Fond du Lac Street Saturday, the occupants were not home.  The cause of the mobile home fire remains under investigation, the house fire was believed […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin-Madison Police say a California man sent them 20 dozen coconut doughnuts as payback after officers threw him out of a Badger football game Saturday.  UW-Madison Police spokesman Marc Lovicott says the man traveled from Los Angeles to see the Badgers play Northwestern at Camp Randall Stadium. He was seated in a section away from his friends and when he tried to enter their […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An appeals court says an Appleton man can legally possess a switchblade in his home.  Cory Herrmann cut himself with his switchblade in his home in 2012. He called 911 and was eventually charged with possessing a switchblade.  He argued that Wisconsin's ban on possessing switchblades violates his constitutional right to bear arms. He contended he possessed the knife in his own home for protection.  The […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A state appeals court has upheld the firing of a Milwaukee police officer who punched a woman and pulled her out of a police car by her hair.  The 1st District Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the 2012 firing of Officer Richard Schoen for excessive force. Schoen argued the city's Board of Fire and Police Commissioners did not have the authority to reconsider its initial […]

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