Month: November 2022

Two people are in custody following a high speed chase involving a stolen vehicle in Fond du Lac.  It started shortly after 10pm Tuesday when police were alerted that a stolen vehicle from Menasha was headed southbound on Interstate 41.  An officer attempted a traffic stop at 41 and Military Road and the vehicle fled into the city at speeds of approximately 90 miles an hour.  The stolen vehicle struck an occupied vehicle at […]

Sheriff's deputies helped extinguish a fire that was starting to spread out of control on a Fond du Lac County farm.  Shortly after 2:30am Wednesday a passerby reported a large fire at W3216 Highway 23 with flames spreading to nearby trees.  Sheriff's deputies used fire extinguishers from their squad cars to prevent the fire from spreading to a nearby RV and Mount Calvary firefighters extinguished the fire.  The fire was contained to an outdoor pigpen. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed landmark bipartisan legislation to protect same-sex marriages. It's an extraordinary sign of shifting national politics on the issue and a measure of relief for the hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples who have married since the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision that legalized gay marriage nationwide. The bill approved Tuesday would ensure that same-sex and interracial marriages are enshrined in federal law. The vote […]

The Fond du Lac Police Chief says a Fond du Lac man was high on methamphetamine when he intentionally crashed his vehicle into several other vehicles and led police on a chase in the city over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.   Police Chief Aaron Goldstein says the incident started Friday night when the suspect intentionally struck a parked vehicle in the parking lot near  Festival Foods and Planet Fitness,  backed into […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Losing Wisconsin Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Michels says that former President Donald Trump told him five days before the election that Michels was going to win and he didn’t need to come to the state to campaign for him. Michels lost to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers by 3 points in a race that polls had shown was about even for weeks leading up to the election.  […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered energy firm Enbridge Inc. and an American Indian tribe to come up with a emergency plan to prevent potential oil spills from a pipeline running through the tribe's reservation. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa sued Enbridge in 2019 to force the company to remove a section of pipeline that runs through their reservation in northern Wisconsin. Enbridge has […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell spent much of his first day on the job speaking to his new players and realizing that many of them had hoped this search would have a different outcome. Fickell told them that change is never easy while adding that “the things that are easy aren't what last.” Many players had openly called for interim head coach Jim Leonhard to get the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Hunters killed 14% more deer during Wisconsin's nine-day gun season this year than in 2021, nearly double the five-year average. The season closed Sunday evening. The state Department of Natural Resources released preliminary data Tuesday that showed hunters killed 203,295 deer during the season, up 14.4% from last year. The average percent change in each of the past five years has been a 7.7% increase. The […]

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers says he expects to play Sunday at Chicago after a rib injury knocked him out of a 40-33 loss at Philadelphia.   “I got good news with the scans yesterday, so I plan on playing this week,” Rodgers said Tuesday on “The Pat McAfee Show” on YouTube and SiriusXM.  Rodgers left in the second half against the Eagles because of the rib injury. He already […]