Month: August 2017

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new state-run website has launched providing a central location for state agency public meeting notices and minutes.  Gov. Scott Walker announced Tuesday that the website is up and running. He signed an executive order in March calling for creation of the website.  Walker says the website enhances transparency by increasing the public's ability to access government documents, information and meetings.  Notices can be searched by […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former aide to Gov. Scott Walker has lost an appeal of a federal court ruling rejecting her lawsuit alleging that prosecutors in the now-closed John Doe investigation overstepped their constitutional authority.  The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected the appeal filed by Cindy Archer. She had asked the court to overturn a 2016 ruling tossing her lawsuit against Milwaukee County prosecutors.  They […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court has upheld the state's ban on joint ownership of cemeteries and funeral homes.  The decision Tuesday from the 2nd District Court of Appeals comes in the case of a New Berlin cemetery that wants to add a funeral home. Highland Memorial Park sued the state, arguing Wisconsin laws banning joint ownership are unconstitutional, arbitrary, anti-competitive and irrational.  The state argues that so-called […]

Charges have been amended  for a Beaver Dam man accused of sexually assaulting a child in Fond du Lac County.  At a hearing in Fond du Lac County circuit court, charges against 20 year old  Andrew Twardokus were amended to three counts of exposing a child to harmful material. Twardokus was initially charged with using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime,  second degree sexual assault of a child, […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The FBI is offering a $25,000 reward for information that will help authorities investigating a triple homicide earlier this month in southeastern Wisconsin.  Three Illinois men were shot and killed on Aug. 13 during a drag racing event in the town of Paris. They were shot at close range as they stood near a concession area in the parking lot of Great Lakes Dragaway.  Killed were 30-year-old […]

The names of the victims of a fatal two vehicle crash south of Fond du Lac this week have been released.  The state patrol says 62 year old Ruilao Guo from Salinas California died at St. Agnes Hospital.  Guo was the driver of a semi that failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with a vehicle driven by 24 year old Dylan Merrill Langhoff of Fond du Lac.  […]

More than 3,000 people attended the 2017 Taste of Fond du Lac.   For the third consecutive year, the event was held at Lakeside Park in Fond du Lac August 20th with food samples from local restaurants, and food trucks, along with a beer garden and live music.   Society Insurance of Fond du Lac sponsored the event. The coveted PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD at the 2017 Taste of Fond du Lac went […]

Wisconsin DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp is stepping down to accept a position with the EPA.  Governor Scott Walker says Stepp has accepted an appointment with the Environmental Protection Agency as the deputy administrator for Region 7.   Stepp has been the Wisconsin DNR secretary since 2011.  Walker appointed DNR Deputy Secretary Kurt Thiede to serve as interim secretary effective August 31, 2017.

A semi driver from California was killed and another person was seriously injured in a semi versus car crash south of Fond du Lac Monday morning.  Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says fog appears to be a factor in the crash at the intersection of Highway 175 and County Highway F.  Waldschmidt says a semi traveling east on F went through a stop sign and was hit by a vehicle traveling […]