Month: October 2021

The Fond du Lac School superintendent says he hopes two new High School security officers will be on the job in the next couple weeks.   Superintendent Dr. Jeff Fleig interviewed two applicants this week.  Dr. Fleig says the unarmed civilian security officers are being hired following a fight at the high school earlier this month.  Eleven students were suspended and face possible expulsion.  One of the students was criminally charged in court.  […]

A Pennsylvania man is going to prison for sexually assaulting a child in Dodge County.  Dodge County Circuit judge Brian Pfitzinger sentenced 25 year old Steven Barlow to 22 years in prison  followed by 12 years of extended supervision on two counts of  First Degree Child Sexual Assault.  Barlow was convicted of sexually assaulting two young children, ages four and five, offering at least one of the children ice cream in exchange for a […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A paramedic is on trial in Dane County where he’s accused sexually assaulting a woman while she was being taken to the hospital in an ambulance. The Janesville woman testified Monday that the paramedic touched her inappropriately and exposed himself to her while she was being transferred to Stoughton Hospital in May 2019. Thirty-nine-year-old Timothy Ovadal, of Madison, is charged with second-degree and fourth-degree sexual assault. […]

Tyler Riemer says he is excited about developing plans to enhance Fond du Lac's Lakeside Park.  Riemer is a UW-Madison student commissioned to study Lighthouse Point and Frazier Point as part of the UW- Madison Capstone project.  "Personally my design philosophy is to design with altruism in mind,"  Riemer told WFDL news.  "Everything I do I do to improve the human experience."  Riemer says that can be done through preserving nature.  […]

The Fond du Lac School Board has adopted the 2021-22 budget Superintendent Dr. Jeff Fleig says it's a balanced budget.  The budget includes a slight decrease in the tax rate from $8.36 per thousand to $7.34 cents. "Primarily due to the increase in state aid,  Dr. Fleig told WFDL news.  "One of our biggest challenges will be our declining enrollment.  We were given the one year exemption this year."  Dr. Fleig […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge is setting the final ground rules for what evidence will be allowed at Kyle Rittenhouse's trial next week. The Illinois teen shot three people, killing two of them, during a protest against police brutality in Kenosha in August 2020. He faces multiple charges, including homicide. He has argued that he fired in self-defense. His trial is set to begin Nov. 1. Judge Bruce […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans plan to launch another investigation of the 2020 election. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu announced Monday that GOP leaders will authorize the Senate elections committee to probe election administration in the wake of findings legislative auditors released Friday. That report did not find any widespread fraud in the state. It did identify inconsistent administration of election law based on surveys of ballots it reviewed […]