Month: January 2016

Nobody was injured when a house plant caught on fire.  Fond du Lac firefighters were called to the 8th Street home Friday morning to a report of smoke in the house. Fire chief Pete O’Leary  says investigators are still trying to determine how the fire started.  "There was some plastic burning, so I don't know if it was the plant itself or the pot it was in,"  O'Leary told WFDL news.  "There was […]

Over 100 different wines and beers will be featured at this year’s Wine Around the World event in Fond du Lac.   The 23rd annual event is  the  Fond du Lac Morning Rotary’s biggest fundraiser of the year.  It  will take place Saturday, January 30th  at the Holiday Inn  Conference Center.  Proceeds  from the event will go to the Morning Rotary  Birthday Books program and Lighting for Literacy.  The Birthday Books program provides […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to meet next week with the top two Republican leaders of Congress to hash out legislative priorities for this election year.  It will be Obama's first formal face-to-face meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan since the Wisconsin Republican was elected to the leadership role late last year. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky will join Ryan at Tuesday's White House meeting.  The […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — France's justice minister, who unexpectedly resigned this week, will receive an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.  The university says former French Justice Minister Christiane Taubira is expected to attend a ceremony on campus Saturday in honor of her "commitment to the values of liberty and equality for all."   Taubira resigned Wednesday after objecting to President Francois Hollande's  push to revoke citizenship from convicted terrorists […]

The Downtown Fond du Lac Partnership in conjunction with Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, Fond du Lac County Economic Development Corporation, the City of Fond du Lac and Fond du Lac County University of Wisconsin-Extension are embarking on a project to complete a market analysis for downtown Fond du Lac. This is an opportunity to provide your valuable input to help guide the future of downtown Fond du Lac. Two information […]

A Fond  du lac woman has been found guilty of killing her husband.  A Fond du lac jury deliberated about two hours Friday morning before finding  Eve Nance guilty of first degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse.   Nance was convicted in the shooting death of her husband Timothy Nance at their Fond du Lac home and disposing his body in Milwaukee.   The prosecution tried to prove Nance killed her husband because she […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The mother of a man accused of planning a mass shooting at a Masonic temple in Milwaukee says her son was set up by the FBI.  Khawla Hamzeh says that despite a criminal complaint describing Samy Mohamed Hamzeh as a Muslim extremist, her 23-year-old son is immature, not very religious and was just trying to convince his friends he was tough.  Samy Mohamed Hamzeh is charged with […]

SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (AP) — A 10-year-old boy has been declared brain dead following a fire in eastern Wisconsin that claimed the lives of two of his siblings. Sheboygan County Medical Examiner David Leffin says Benjamin Martin was declared brain dead shortly after 12:30 a.m. Thursday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that forced an evacuation at a University of Wisconsin-Madison student union. UW Police spokesman Marc Lovicott says the Madison Fire Department got a call of a fire at the Memorial Union on Thursday afternoon. Madison Fire Department spokeswoman Cynthia Schuster says the cause of the fire is under investigation. She says she's not sure when people will be allowed back inside […]