Month: January 2019

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Waunakee woman has been sentenced to three years in prison for striking a pedestrian while driving drunk in Madison, leading to the person's death.  Nicole Bruns pleaded no contest in October to homicide by drunken driving in the death of 21-year-old University of Wisconsin student Alexandra Ihm. Ihm died in March 2017 from a pulmonary embolism as she battled injuries she suffered when struck by […]

A Fond du lac man convicted in a fatal pickup versus pedestrian crash has been placed on probation.  At a sentencing hearing Thursday afternoon Fond du lac Judge Richard Nuss withheld sentence and placed Peter Anderson  on probation for three years with four months in the county jail.  Last month Anderson pleaded no contest to operating a motor vehicle without a license causing death.   Anderson struck and killed 54 year […]

No injuries in a fire in a dust collector at Mercury Marine.  Fond du Lac firefighters were called to plant 17 Thursday  morning for a report of a fire in a dust collector.   Upon arrival fire crews noted heavy smoke coming from the dust collection container on the exterior of the building. The collection system was being removed from the building when heat was introduced to the container and sparked […]

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a report of stray bullets striking a house and shed early New Year’s morning.  The Sheriff’s Office says  nobody was injured when  bullets struck the front window of a home as well as a shed and pickup truck in the shed on County Road W near Hemlock Road  in the town of Trenton.  The Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in […]

Utility work is scheduled to begin this week  in preparation for the County Highway V reconstruction project  in Fond du lac County.   Starting Thursday,  Highway V will be closed to through traffic for approximately eight weeks, and will be closed to all traffic at the Fond du lac Avenue intersection.    A detour will be posted directing traffic to use Highway VV and Fond du Lac Avenue during utility work.  Mail […]

The Fond du Lac Fire chief says his thoughts and prayers are with the family and department of a firefighter who was killed while coming to the aid of a driver during a New Year’s eve snowstorm.  Lake Mills Fire Captain Christopher Truman was struck and killed after he stopped to help a motorist who had skidded off the beltline in Monona on New Year’s Eve.  Fond du Lac fire […]

There will be a handful of contested races on the spring election ballot in Fond du Lac County.    Four candidates are running for three seats on the Fond  du lac city council.  Incumbent Brian Kolstad and challengers, Jim Lorrigan, former councilember  Derek Terbeest, Stephany O’Malley, Alicia Hans and Daniel Degner all filed their nomination papers.    Councilmembers Greg Giles and Catherine Block are not running for re-election.   Incumbent Fond du lac […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The field is set for this spring's state Supreme Court race. State Appeals Court Chief Judge Lisa Neubauer and state appellate Judge Brian Hagedorn are vying to replace retiring Justice Shirley Abrahamson.  The deadline for filing nomination signatures was 5 p.m. Wednesday. Neubauer filed hers Dec. 20. Hagedorn filed his Wednesday morning. No one else filed by the deadline, eliminating the need for a primary. The […]