Month: December 2019

The Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Office responded to several vehicle run-offs and mostly minor traffic crashes on snow covered slippery roads Monday night and Tuesday morning.  The southbound lanes of Interstate 41 were closed at Highway 151 in Fond du Lac due to a traffic crash early Tuesday morning.    The crash happened shortly after 5am and the Interstate was reopened shortly before 8am.

Nobody was hurt when a box truck pulling into a Kwik Trip in  Fond du Lac knocked over a gas pump.   Fond du lac Fire and Rescue captain Joe Maramonte tells WFDL news the truck apparently hit a patch of ice and skidded into a pump at the South Main Street Kwik Trip Monday evening.    Firefighters were on the scene for less than an hour.

Fond du Lac County area law enforcement agencies will be out in force this New Year’s holiday to crack down on drunken driving.   The Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign started earlier this month and runs through New Year’s Day.  Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain Bill Tadych says last year in Wisconsin,  alcohol-related crashes resulted in 160 deaths and nearly 3,300 injuries.  There have been three alcohol-related fatalities in […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin voters whose registrations were challenged by a conservative law firm will remain on the voter rolls for now. The Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocked Monday on whether to comply with a judge's order to remove anywhere from 144,000 to more than 200,000 names from voter rolls in the key swing state. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the commission's three Republicans wanted to remove the voters in […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Wisconsin next month, countering a Democratic presidential debate set for the same night in Iowa. Trump's campaign says the rally will be Jan. 14 at the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena. It's the same night that CNN and The Des Moines Register are sponsoring the first Democratic debate of 2020 at Drake University in Des Moines. The Milwaukee rally will […]

One of the bigger street projects in the city of Fond du Lac next year involves a  portion of North Main Street.  Public Works director Jordan Skiff says after a delay this year construction is scheduled to begin next spring on the reconstruction of North Main between Merrill Avenue and East Johnson Street.  Skiff says the project will improve safety and upgrade a stretch of Main Street in need of repaving.   As  part […]

HONOLULU (AP) — The rugged and remote Hawaii terrain where a helicopter crashed and killed all seven people aboard poses many challenges for federal investigators trying to find out what happened. Full of towering cliffs and dense jungle canopies, it’s one of the most challenging crash sites that the National Transportation Safety Board has seen.   A Wisconsin woman and her teenage daughter were killed in the crash.  A team of […]

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Milwaukee/Sullivan WI ...Accumulating Snow Expected Monday Afternoon... .Snow will develop north of the I-94 corridor Monday afternoon and bring accumulating snow for the evening commute. Gusty westerly winds may cause reduced visibility due to blowing snow. The snow will taper off during the overnight hours. Marquette-Green Lake-Fond du Lac-Sheboygan-Sauk-Including the cities of Montello, Westfield, Oxford, Neshkoro,Endeavor, Berlin, Princeton, Markesan, Fond Du Lac, Plymouth, Sheboygan Falls, […]

Mason Crosby made a 33-yard field goal as time expired to lift the Green Bay Packers to a 23-20 win over the Detroit Lions to earn a first-round bye. The Packers fell behind by two touchdowns in the second quarter. They did not lead until Crosby made his second game-winning kick against Detroit this season. The Lions closed the season with nine straight losses for their longest losing streak in […]