Month: August 2020

A nine year old girl received a serious leg injury in a farm accident.  It happened Sunday afternoon at a farm on Grandview Road in the town of Empire.   Investigators say the child was riding on a hay-style wagon attached to the tractor when her leg entangled with the wheel causing the injury.  She was flown by helicopter to ThedaCare Regional Medical Center in Neenah with serious, but non-life threatening injuries.

Rees Street from N. Main Street to N. Macy Street and Fond du Lac Police Department (PD) Parking Lot Schedule: July 2020 through August 2020 Description: The project includes roadway reconstruction, excavation, grading, sidewalk and approaches, restoration/landscaping and lighting. The Police Department parking lot reconstruction will replace asphalt pavement, deteriorated sidewalk and curbing along with moving the flagpoles and adding parking stalls. August 31 to September 4: Asphalt paving is […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will be traveling to Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, amid fury over the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the back. White House spokesman Judd Deere told reporters Saturday night that Trump that will be meeting with law enforcement officers and “surveying” some of the damage from recent protests. The visit is certain to exacerbate tensions in Kenosha, where a crowd of about 1,000 demonstrators […]

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — With chants of “No justice, no peace!” a diverse crowd of roughly 1,000 demonstrators gathered at a Wisconsin courthouse to denounce police violence and share messages of change. Saturday's protest came one week after an officer shot Jacob Blake in the back and left the 29-year-old Black man paralyzed. Blake’s father, Jacob Blake Sr., was among the speakers. He gave an impassioned call for changing a […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Kenosha police union has offered the most detailed accounting to date on officers’ perspective about what happened prior to Jacob Blake being shot seven times in the back. An attorney for the Kenosha Professional Police Association on Friday said that Blake was armed with a knife and fought with officers, putting one of them in a headlock. The Sunday shooting of Blake, a Black man, […]

Four people were rescued after jumping in the water when a boat began taking on water on Lake Winnebago over the weekend.   The incident happened Saturday afternoon about a  mile northeast of the lighthouse.   A DNR Warden brought one subject in the water  on board their vessel.  The Sheriff’s Office Boat Patrol team rescued  three other occupants from the water.   Four other  occupants remained on the vessel in distress, which was […]

A Fond du Lac police detective is under investigation.   Police chief Bill Lamb has confirmed that detective Bill Ledger has been placed on paid administrative leave.   Lamb says because it is a personnel matter the police department will not provide any additional details or information related to this issue.  Earlier this summer  representatives for United for Diversity and Ebony Vision met with Lamb regarding an officer’s conduct stemming from a Facebook […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A private Milwaukee college has canceled plans to have Vice President Mike Pence deliver a commencement address on Saturday, citing unrest in nearby Kenosha where police shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, and two demonstrators were killed. Wisconsin Lutheran College said Thursday that “after further review with careful consideration of the escalating events in Kenosha” it decided to not have Pence deliver the speech. Kenosha police […]