Month: January 2017

..WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM CST TUESDAY...INCLUDING FDL, DODGE AND SHEBOYGAN COUNTIES .LATE THIS AFTERNOON...SNOW. NEW SNOW ACCUMULATION UP TO 1 INCH. SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH. CHANCE OF SNOW NEAR 100 PERCENT. .TONIGHT...NOT AS COLD. SNOW. SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 2 TO 3 INCHES.  TOTAL SNOW ACCUMULATION 3 TO 7 INCHES. LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S.  SOUTH WINDS 10 TO 15 MPH SHIFTING TO THE WEST […]

Nobody was injured in a fire at a vacant Van Dyne home Monday afternoon.  Shortly before 1pm firefighters were called to the scene at W6855 Park St. in Van Dyne.  Fire departments from Van Dyne, North Fond du Lac, Brandon and Ripon, along with deputies from the Sheriff’s Office responded to the scene. The home owner, Kurt Gross, said he currently uses the building for storage.  The fire was contained […]

A Fond du Lac man has been charged with two felonies in connection with filing false income tax returns.  Adam L. Portman is charged with one count of theft and one count of filing a false income tax return with the intent to evade or obtain a tax credit. Both charges are felonies.  If convicted, Portman faces more than nine years in prison and a $20,000 fine.  The criminal complaint […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have received federal approval to start testing driverless cars at sites around Wisconsin.  The U.S. Department of Transportation recently designated UW-Madison's Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory as one of 10 groups nationwide as proving grounds for the vehicles.  The lab does not have any driverless cars of its own, and has not yet partnered with a company that wants to […]

Two people were seriously injured in a car versus semi crash in Dodge County.  The crash happened early Saturday morning at the intersection of CTH A and CTH W in the Township of Oak Grove.  A preliminary investigation showed that a 24 year old Horicon man was eastbound on W and failed to stop at a stop sign rear ending a semi traveling north on Highway A.  The car driver […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A panel of federal judges has ordered the Wisconsin Legislature to redraw legislative boundaries by November, rejecting calls from those challenging the maps to have the judges do the work.  The three-judge panel released its decision in the redistricting case Friday. The state is expected to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case.  State attorneys had asked for the Republican-controlled Legislature to be allowed […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Assembly Republican leaders are asking the state Department of Transportation for a review of costs for recently completed, ongoing and planned projects.  The letter sent Friday comes after release of an audit that said the department underestimated costs of projects of ongoing projects by more than $3 billion.  The letter sent to DOT Secretary Dave Ross was signed by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, Majority Leader Jim […]

The Fond du Lac Department of Public Works says a portion of East Scott Street will be closed starting Monday.  East Scott between Main Street and Park Avenue will close starting Monday and remain closed until Friday evening.  The closure will allow a contractor to remove a sanitary manhole and repair the street after construction.  The street will remain open to local traffic only.  Also West Division Street between Macy […]

A man involved in an armed stand off in Fond du Lac has been bound over for trial.  Forty nine year old  Brian Santistevan waived his preliminary hearing Friday on charges of disorderly conduct, battery, false imprisonment, threats to injure and strangulation-suffocation.  Police were called to a residence on Sibley Street this month for a report that a woman and her 8 year old daughter were being held at knifepoint […]