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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Justice quietly fired the Madison crime lab manager last summer for what agency officials called unsatisfactory work performance.  Discipline letters The Associated Press obtained through an open records request show lab manager Amy Lautenbach was terminated on July 1. The agency didn't publicize the firing.  Former Deputy Attorney General Kevin St. John wrote in Lautenbach's letter that a performance evaluation found unacceptable […]

A Fond du lac  man has been convicted of  a series of home invasions.  At a plea and sentencing hearing Thursday afternoon Lucas Leffel  pleaded no contest to three counts of attempted second degree sexual assault.  Several other counts were dismissed and read into the record.   Police say Leffel admitted to entering four homes in the southeast side of town while naked last year.  A pre-sentence investigation was ordered.

Bail has been lowered for a Fond du Lac man accused of stealing more than $100,000 from Sadoff Iron and Metal company.  Donald Krueger stood mute at his arraignment hearing Thursday afternoon and the court entered a not guilty plea on his behalf.  Judge Dale English lowered bond from $100,000 to $2000 cash.  Krueger and his alleged accomplice Daniel Christenson of Wild Rose waived their preliminary hearings last Friday on […]

No injuries were reported following a liquid nitrogen leak at Muthig Tool and Die in Fond du Lac.  Shortly before 7:30pm Thursday firefighters were called to a report of  smoke and steam pouring out the back of the building on East Larson Drive.

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Fond du lac’s Walleye Weekend kicks off Friday at Lakeside Park and festival officials say this year’s event includes several new features.  The event centers around a Mercury Marine National Walleye fishing tournament but features music, food, beverage and many other attractions for kids and adults.  Fond du lac Festivals Director Leanne Doyle says one of the new events is called Hearts to Heroes, a motorcycle charity ride to benefit area […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans on the Wisconsin Legislature's budget-writing committee plan to propose eliminating the alternative minimum income tax which primarily benefits people earning more than $200,000 a year.  Republican Rep. Dale Kooyenga said Thursday he plans to propose doing away with the tax that brought in just over $26 million in the 2013 tax year. He says that cut will be made up with raising taxes elsewhere, so […]

The Waupun police chief says additional charges are expected to be filed against a Waupun couple accused of sexually assaulting a three year old boy.   The boy’s father, 26 year old Robert Moungey and his girlfriend, 25 year old Cassandra Scheuers are charged with first degree sexual assault of a child.  Police chief Dale Heeringa says Moungey is accused of tying his son to a bed and taking pictures of […]

A Watertown man convicted of sexually assaulting a 13 year old girl will spend some time in jail. Dodge County Circuit Court Judge Steven Bauer handed down a withheld sentence of five years probation to 23 year old Dylan Zimmerman. As a condition of probation, Zimmerman must serve six months in jail. In March, Zimmerman pleaded no contest to a charge of second degree sexual assault of a child. According […]