Month: May 2018

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Police across the country have responded to hundreds of paintball fights in recent weeks.  Authorities say the trend began around the time an Atlanta rapper began posting YouTube videos encouraging people to trade real guns for paintball weapons.  But police say the well-intentioned effort to reduce gun violence led to a shooting death last month in Greensboro, North Carolina. And the fast-moving paintballs have caused injuries and […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — A memorial service is scheduled Friday for the pilot and two crew members killed when a medical helicopter crashed in northern Wisconsin. Ascension Wisconsin Spirit Medical Transport and Air Methods will host the service at Holy Family Catholic Church in Woodruff. The service begins at 10 a.m.  The crash claimed the lives of the pilot, Rico Caruso, of Hazelhurst; flight paramedic Gregory Rosenthal, of Mosinee; and flight […]

Fond du Lac Salvation Army captains Steve and Telinda Wilson are leaving.  They have been reassigned  to the Salvation Army in Janesville.  The Wilsons have been in Fond du Lac for nearly six years.  "Its been a great time here in Fond du lac," captain Steve Wilson told WFDL news.  "We've enjoyed the city, the people and the support we've received for the Salvation Army."   Salvation Army Majors Jon and […]

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) — Two people have died and two others have been injured in a single-vehicle crash in Sheboygan.  Police say the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle which crashed into a tree and a parked car on the city's south side Wednesday morning.  Veeser says two people were pronounced dead at the scene. Two others were rushed to the hospital.

A Campbellsport man was seriously injured in a one vehicle rollover crash.  It happened late Tuesday afternoon on Highway 45 and CTH SS.  Sheriff’s Sergant Ryan Zitlow says a vehicle traveling southbound on 45 failed to negotiate a curve,  traveled off the road into a ditch where it struck driveway culvert embankment, became airborne and rolled multiple times before coming to rest in the ditch.  Forty five year old Timothy […]

Bail was set at $100,000 cash for a North Fond du Lac man accused of sexually assaulting a child.  Fifty seven year old Ronald Shingleton is charged with first degree sexual assault of a child.   According to a criminal complaint Shingleton sexually assaulted a 10 year old girl multiple times, telling the child it was punishment.   A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 10.

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office is continuing its investigation into a fatal traffic crash on Highway 23 west of Fond du Lac Monday.  Seventy one year old Joseph Mineau of Oakfield was killed when his car collided with a semi.  Sheriff’s captain Ryan Waldschmidt says investigators want to know why Mineau  drove into the path of the semi after stopping at a stop sign on Highway C.  "That […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican bill that would impose new work and job training requirements for federal food stamps could force nearly 76,000 Wisconsin recipients out of the program.   A Legislative Fiscal Bureau analysis of the bill Democratic lawmakers released Tuesday found that the bill would prohibit states from offering food stamp eligibility for needy families that receive federal assistance or use federal programs to help the poor.  According […]