Month: February 2020

An 18-year-old North Fond du Lac man convicted  of  stealing vehicles last fall in Fond du Lac and Beaver Dam has been placed on probation.   One of the stolen vehicles was found in Beaver Dam Lake.   Dodge County Circuit judge Joseph Sciascia withheld sentence and placed Kaden Solano on probation for five years with a year in jail.  Solano pleaded no contest to operating a vehicle without consent, eluding and bail jumping.   Eighteen year old […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The man police say killed five of his co-workers at a Milwaukee brewery before killing himself was accused of punching a woman and pointing a gun at another vehicle in the 1990s. Court documents show Anthony Ferrill was charged in 1991 with disorderly conduct in Milwaukee County after witnesses said he pointed a gun at their Ford Bronco while they were stopped at a light. The case […]

According to a database of mass killings, mass shootings at the workplace remain a rare event. The mass shooting at a brewery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was only the 13th since 2006. The gunman at the Molson Coors plant killed five employees Wednesday before killing himself. A database of mass killings tracked in partnership by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University, shows the vast majority of mass killings are […]

A convicted child sex offender from Montello faces multiple charges after he was arrested in Waupun with a teenage girl in his vehicle.  Waupun police stopped the 24 year old man for speeding last week on West Main Street.   According to a criminal complaint the man lied to officers about his identity and was arrested on a probation hold.  Officers also confiscated suspected methamphetamine from the vehicle.  Police say a 17 year old female […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has signed a bill that would grant the public access to most police body camera footage. The bill doesn't require police to wear body cameras but does declare that any footage that's captured would be generally available to the public to inspect and copy under Wisconsin's open records law. Evers' office announced the signing Friday.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed Republican lawmakers' tough-on-crime legislation. The governor's office announced the vetoes Friday afternoon.  The bills would have required prison officials to recommend revoking a person's parole or probation if he or she is charged with a crime; block violent criminals from participating in early release programs;  expanding offenses that could land children in a youth prison; and forbid prosecutors from amending charges of […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin appeals court has overturned a ruling that ordered the removal of up to 209,000 people from the state's voter rolls. The court last month put the ruling, and the purge, on hold while it considered the case. The 4th District Court of Appeals' ruling Friday overturned the decision of an Ozaukee County judge who had initially ruled in favor of a conservative law firm […]

The Fond du Lac city council got its first look at a potential cost breakdown for a public safety referendum at their meeting this week.   The cost for six additional police officers, two squad cars and an additional ambulance with six firefighter/paramedics is $1.3 million.   However city manager Joe Moore told the council that by going to referendum the city would lose more than a million dollars from the state’s expenditure  restraint program.  Moore says  […]