Month: July 2019

Fond du Lac city and county officials have officially announced a new manned security checkpoint at the city-county government center will go into operation on Monday August 5.  County executive Al Buechel says  effective that morning the the only public access to the Government Center will be through the north entrance security checkpoint.    All other entrance doors including the Macy Street entrance, will be locked and may be used only as an emergency exit.  Buechel […]

A Mount Calvary woman has been placed on probation for two years for stealing poppy sales money from veterans.  Sixty five year old Donna Wilhelms pleaded no contest to three counts of felony theft from a business setting.  In addition to probation Fond du Lac Judge Gary Sharpe also ordered Wilhelms pay back  nearly $11,000 in restitution, write a letter of apology and perform 30 hours of community service.  According to a criminal complaint Wilhelms was […]

TOWN OF MANCHESTER, Wis. (AP) — A toddler has died in an accident on a farm in Green Lake County.  Sheriff's officials say a man was backing a wagon in the barnyard when the 14-month-old girl was struck Saturday. Adults at the scene began CPR before first responders arrived. The child was taken to a hospital in Berlin where she was pronounced dead.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Authorities in Wisconsin say a man suspected of killing four people may have been imitating the abduction last year of teenager Jayme Closs.  Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk said Tuesday that investigators may never know exactly what led to the Sunday attacks. He says Ritchie German Jr. killed three of his family members and later killed a 24-year-old woman at another home before killing himself.   Kowalczyk says […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The trial of former University of Wisconsin football player Quintez Cephus has begun with a woman testifying that Cephus raped her in his apartment.  The 21-year-old Cephus is charged with second- and third-degree sexual assault after two 18-year-old women reported to police that he had assaulted them on the same night in April 2018.   Cephus argues the sex was consensual and arranged by one of the […]

A Fond du Lac man has been arrested for drunken driving following a  rollover crash at Lakeside Park.     Shortly before 9pm Monday police were called to Frazier Point, near Doty Street,  for a report of a Ford Bronco spinning donuts when the driver lost control and the vehicle rolled over.  Assistant police chief Steve Klein says the driver and a passenger fled the scene  on foot and were apprehended a short […]

Taste of Fond du Lac will not be held this year.  Fond du Lac Festivals has announced the annual food tasting festival is taking the year off with plans to hold the festival again next summer.    The annual Taste has been held on the third Sunday of August at Lakeside Park for the last five years, and previously held at the Fond du Lac County Fairgrounds.  Festivals president Terry Davis says […]

Fond du Lac police continue to investigate a break in at the Sprint Store on North Rolling Meadows Drive.    According to the police log the suspect used a crowbar or metal object to gain entrance shortly before 8am Sunday.  The report says it does not appear anything was stolen.  The suspect is described as a white male in his 40s, with sandy blond or light brown hair, wearing a yellow tank top, sunglasses, jean […]