Month: November 2021

A second person has been charged in Fond du Lac County with voter fraud in the 2020  presidential election.  Like the first person charged earlier this year Anthony Van Egtern is a convicted felon who was still on probation when he voted.   The Campbellsport man is scheduled to make his initial court appearance December 7.  According to a criminal complaint Van Egtern voted at the Taycheeda Town Hall.  His probation was scheduled to end […]

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have added a sixth homicide count against a Wisconsin man accused of driving his SUV through a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee. Investigators allege Darrell Brooks Jr. injured dozens of people and killed six when he turned his vehicle into the parade in Waukesha on Nov. 21. He was charged Nov. 23 with five counts of first-degree intentional homicide for victims ranging in age from […]

Longtime Fond du Lac County Circuit judge Peter Grimm will not seek re-election.  Grimm announced Monday he will be retiring when his term expires at the end of July, 2022, after 31 years on the bench.   Before he was elected judge Grimm served as an assistant state public defender and Fond du Lac County District Attorney.  Grimm says it has been an honor to serve the public, litigants,  jurors, and attorneys in his courtroom.  […]

Republican U.S. Senator Ron Johnson may be close to announcing whether he will run for re-election.    On AM 1170s Between the Lines program Johnson said he expects to make an announcement soon.  "There are those that have spent millions attacking me falsely,"  Johnson told BTL.   "I thought I was doing everybody a favor.  I don't hear a clamor about starting up the U.S. Senate race,"  Johnson said.  "I think these campaigns […]

The former Fond du Lac Public Works director admits he was surprised when the Plymouth City Council voted to fire him earlier this month.  The council voted in closed session to terminate their employment contract with Jordan Skiff less than ten months on the job.   Skiff says he had a couple conversations last summer and early this fall with the mayor  about the budget and how he was getting along with staff.  […]

The Fond du Lac County District Attorney says he wasn't surprised that Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all of the charges he faced, and says he wouldn't have charged the Illinois teenager if he had been the prosecutor in the case.  Eric Toney, who is a Republican candidate for state attorney general says  given the set of facts in the case he would not have filed homicide charges against Rittenhouse.  Instead Toney says […]

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — When he was acquitted of murder for shootings during unrest in Kenosha, Kyle Rittenhouse went from staring at possible life behind bars to red-hot star of the right. He taped an exclusive interview with Tucker Carlson and went with his mom to visit Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, where the two men were photographed smiling and snapping a thumbs-up. For Rittenhouse, a year of legal uncertainty over […]

On Veterans Day, Whisper Hill Clydesdales Special Needs honored all veterans. A special honor went to Herbert Schultz. Mr. Schultz of Oshkosh was the first veteran of the night to win bingo and he also was awarded $100 from an anonymous donor. For the next two weeks the first veteran to win bingo at the Whisper Hill Clydesdales bingo night will also receive a $100 from this donor. Whisper Hill […]