Month: April 2019

OAK CREEK, Wis. (AP) — A Milwaukee-area Sikh temple where a white supremacist fatally shot six parishioners in 2012 hosted Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to make April Sikh Awareness and Appreciation month.  The celebration comes at a time when houses of worship have been targets of violence recently. A gunman opened fire in a California synagogue where about 100 people were celebrating the last day of Passover Saturday, killing one […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Foxconn Technology Group CEO Terry Gou is headed to the White House for a meeting, but it's unclear why.  Foxconn has committed to building a $10 billion display screen manufacturing facility in Wisconsin that the company says will employ 13,000 people.  Foxconn said in a statement Tuesday that it "regularly engages with its stakeholders in state and federal government." Foxconn says details of such interactions can't […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal appellate panel has affirmed a lower court's decision to dismiss a northern Wisconsin tribe's lawsuit seeking to block a rival tribe's casino expansion.  The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans sued in 2017 to block the Ho-Chunk Nation from expanding its Wittenberg casino, which opened in 2008. U.S. District Judge James Peterson dismissed the lawsuit in February 2018, finding the Stockbridge-Munsee's claims were subject to a […]

County Road V from Pioneer Road to Fond du Lac Avenue Schedule: April 2019 through September 2019 Description of work: The project includes reconstruction of the water main and services and partnership with Fond du Lac County for new storm sewer, street, pedestrian trail, and lighting. April 29 th to May 3 rd : The contractor will be installing water laterals and continuing water main installation south of Pioneer Road. […]

Eight people, including a fugitive from Arizona,  were taken into custody Monday afternoon following  what was described as the execution of a high risk search warrant in Fond du Lac. Fond du Lac Police Chief Bill Lamb says the nature of the search was firearms related and to apprehend the fugitive.   Shortly before 2:30pm  Monday the  Fond du Lac Police and Sheriff’s SWAT team, Metropolitan Enforcement Group Drug Unit and […]

The Fond du lac city manager says the hope is that a one block stretch of Macy Street near downtown Fond du Lac can re-open to traffic  by the first full week of May.  The street has been closed for more than a month after several bricks fell off the side of the Macy Street mini mall building.   City manager Joe Moore told WFDL news the property owner continues to […]

A Campbellsport man faces his tenth drunken driving offense after slamming his boat into a pier on Long Lake and then driving away without reporting it.    Fond du Lac County  Sheriff’s captain Bill Tadych tells WFDL news shortly after 4pm Sunday 49 year old  Timothy Mills was operating a boat  on Long Lake  when he struck the pier at N3910 Beach Avenue, destroying the pier.  Tadych says Mills then loaded […]

A Portage man is back in the Fond du lac County Jail following a suicide attempt Monday morning.   Jail administrator Jim Borgen  tells WFDL news early Monday morning  32 year old Troy Kratz attempted to strangle himself with his underwear  in his jail cell.  Jail staff observed him on camera and stopped  the attempt.  Kratz was reported to be semi-conscious when he was transported to  St. Agnes Hospital.     He was […]