Month: July 2019

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Preston Cole is telling wildlife officials attending a multi-state conference on chronic wasting disease that they need to talk to each other and come up with a regional approach to slowing the disease.  Representatives from wildlife agencies from an array of Midwestern states are gathering Wednesday and Thursday in Madison to discuss CWD. Cole began the conference by telling attendees that […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate is denouncing comments made by the state's agriculture secretary criticizing the Legislature for not doing more to combat suicides by farmers as "flippant," ''inflammatory, "offensive and unproductive."  Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald took issue Wednesday with comments made by Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection Secretary Brad Pfaff.    Pfaff on Tuesday faulted the Legislature's Republican-controlled budget committee for not […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Corrections has erased any record of the man who kidnapped Jayme Closs and killing her parents from its inmate locator database.  Twenty-two-year-old Jake Patterson was moved to an out-of-state facility on July 15. DOC officials declined to reveal where out of concern for his safety. The agency has declined to elaborate.  Patterson's name has been removed from the DOC's online inmate locator. DOC […]

One person was seriously injured in a three vehicle crash in Dodge County.  It happened shortly after 11:30am Wednesday at the intersection of State Highway 33 and County Road TW.   The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says a Honda Accord was rear ended by a van and pushed into the oncoming lane of traffic where it was struck by a Toyota car, splitting the Honda into two pieces.   The drivers  of both cars received minor […]

A portion of North Hickory Street is closed this morning due to a transformer fire.     Fond du Lac Firefighters were called to the scene on North Hickory and West Johnson Streets shortly before 5am.  Alliant Energy is on the scene.

The Fond du Lac city council will vote Wednesday on whether to move Halloween trick or treating from Sunday to Saturday afternoons.  City council president Brian Kolstad says KFIZ radio requested the change because of potential conflicts with Green Bay Packer  football games.  But a review of the schedule shows there have only been two Green Bay Packer football games that have conflicted with Halloween trick or treating in Fond du […]

One person was seriously injured in a motorcycle crash in Dodge County.   The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office says  shortly before 3pm Tuesday a van struck two motorcycles at the intersection of County Highways A and KW in the town of Clyman.   One motorcycle operator was flown by helicopter to the hospital with serious injuries.  The second operator received minor injuries.  The crash remains under investigation.

Fond du Lac police are warning residents about a telephone scam that has surfaced in recent days.   Assistant police chief Steve Klein says the caller claims to be with Social Security threatening arrest if they don’t send money.  Klein told WFDL news the caller asks the person to send money via a money order or Google Play gift card.  Klein says if you get a call like this hang up.  Klein […]

Much of Washington will stop in its tracks Wednesday as former special counsel Robert Mueller testifies on Capitol Hill on his findings on Russia’s 2016 election interference.  The Justice Department on Monday told Mueller his testimony should not go beyond information that has already been released publically.   Retired Ripon College political science professor, Marty Farrell, says that won’t stop Democrats on the House Judiciary and Intelligience committees from asking whether he thought the president […]