Month: June 2022

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled a boy accused of shooting and wounding eight people at a suburban Milwaukee mall in 2020 should be tried in adult court. The court, on a 4-3 decision released Wednesday, said a Milwaukee County Children’s Court judge was wrong in denying prosecutors’ request to waive the teen, who was 15 at the time of the shooting, to adult court. Chief […]

A man accused in a fatal shooting at a Racine biker club in 2020 has been acquitted of criminal charges. Jurors found 37-year-old Donley Carey not guilty of first-degree intentional homicide in the death of DeMarcus Anderson at the Sin City Biker Club. A jury on Tuesday also found Carey not guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The case presented by the Racine County District Attorney’s […]

As summer officially begins and people gather for holiday celebrations,  the American Red Cross reminds communities that patients are counting now on the generosity of blood and  platelet donors, especially around the Fourth of July.  The Red Cross sees about a 21% decline in blood and platelet donations during holiday weeks, including Independence Day. When blood donations drop, so does the blood supply, making it extremely challenging to ensure blood […]

A Fond du Lac intersection will be closed Thursday to allow for the installation of a water main.   Fond du Lac Public Works says the intersection at Martin Avenue and 14th Street will be closed through the end of the day.

Fond du Lac Fire Chief Erik Gerritson has been sworn into office.  A pinning ceremony was held Wednesday at the South Main Street Fire Station.  The Fond du Lac Police and Fire Commission selected  Gerritson earlier this month.  He was the lone finalist for the position out of nine applicants from across the country and Canada.   Gerritson had been serving as interim chief following the retirement of longtime chief Pete O'Leary […]

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra will perform at the Buttermilk Festival in Fond du Lac on Wednesday, June 29. It will be the MSO’s 22nd free Festival concert since the tradition began in 1992. The concert will begin at 7:15 p.m. at the Wifler Performance Center in Buttermilk Creek Park on South Park Avenue, and moved to the County Fairgrounds EXPO Building in the event of unsuitable weather. The concert will include […]

A group of Appleton boy scouts that survived a deadly Amtrak crash in Missouri is back home.  The scouts flew home on a chartered plane arriving Tuesday evening at Austin Straubel Airport in Green Bay. Two of the eight adults in the group are in a Missouri hospital recovering from injuries.  Three people were killed and dozens others were injured Monday when an Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck […]

An Iron Ridge man was killed in a dump truck crash in Dodge County.  The crash happened shortly after 2pm Tuesday when a dump truck failed to stop at a stop sign on Dodge County Highway S and Highway  WS  entered a driveway,  crossed over railroad tracks, and overturned.  The 67 year old driver was pronounced dead at the scene. The  crash remains under investigation by the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Liberal watchdog group American Oversight filed its fourth open records lawsuit over the investigation of the 2020 election result in Wisconsin. The lawsuit Tuesday targets the lead investigator, former Supreme Court justice Michael Gableman, for his practice of deleting records he didn’t deem useful to his investigation. The lawsuit seeks to stop Gableman’s office from deleting any records covered by state law, not just those responsive […]