Month: August 2019

Fond du Lac High School officials are looking for a non-venomous snake that escaped from its  cage over the weekend.  School officials notified parents of the incident as students headed back to school this week.  So far attempts to locate the snake have been unsuccessful.  

An elderly Mayville woman who was found unconscious in the basement of a Waupun home last month with severe head injuries has died.   Waupun police chief Scott Louden says 75 year old Carol Foreman died last week at ThedaCare Medical Center in Neenah.  Police are waiting for autopsy results as they continue their investigation into the incident.   The woman’s grandson, 30 year old Gregory Spittel, was arrested and made his initial Fond du Lac court […]

Nobody was injured in a fire that caused minor damage to a Waupun area  business.     Waupun firefighters were called Saturday morning for a report that a multi-tennant commercial building on Highway 49 was filling with smoke.  Firefighters found a smoldering fire on a work bench in a space leased by Home Contrractors  and  used a fire extinguisher to put out the fire.   Damage was limited to a work bench in the shop […]

Gas prices for this Labor Day holiday weekend are the lowest in the last few years.   State AAA spokesman Nick Jarmuscz says drivers are paying more than 25 cents less than they did a year ago.  Jarmuscz tells WFDL news that the average price for a unleaded regular is $2.53  a gallon.  Labor Day marks the end of the busy summer travel season and the last big surge in gasoline […]

Area law enforcement will be out in force this holiday weekend looking for speeders and drunken drivers.  "Labor  Day (holiday) is typically a busy weekend for us so we anticipate that and we do have the Fond du Lac County Task Force out county-wide.  All the municipalities are participating in the speed grant this weekend,"   Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain,  Bill Tadych, told WFDL news.  Tadych says law enforcement […]

CHICAGO (AP) — The Milwaukee Brewers showed last year they know how to finish strong.  They are hoping for a repeat performance this season.   Manny Piña drove in two runs with a first-inning single and Josh Hader closed out a strong performance by Milwaukee's bullpen, helping the short-handed Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0 on Saturday.  Ben Gamel had three hits for Milwaukee, which had dropped four of five. Gamel was recalled […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources board is moving toward shortening Wisconsin's ruffed grouse season to as the population dwindles.  The board voted unanimously Tuesday to allow the department to craft an emergency rule that would close the season across the northwestern two-thirds of the state on Jan. 5. The season currently runs from mid-September through Jan. 31 in that portion of the state.  The DNR is concerned […]

The Dodge County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim of a fatal motorcycle versus  car crash in Dodge County.  The Sheriff’s Office says 29 year old Jacob Harshbarger of rural Fox Lake died from injuries suffered in the crash Wednesday morning on  Kellom Road north of CTH B in the Township of Beaver Dam.  Investigators say Harshbarger was turning into a parking lot and collided with a  car.  He was not wearing a helmet.   He […]

Fond du lac police continue to investigate a vandalism incident at Riverside Elementary School.  Police were called to the school Thursday for a report of a large boulder thrown through a glass office window at the school  on Linden Street.