Bail has been set at $250,000 cash for a Fond du Lac man arrested in connection with a series of home invasions. Lucas Leffel made his initial Fond du Lac court appearance Tuesday on seven counts of burglary and attempted second degree sexual assault. Police Chief Bill Lamb says Leffel has admitted to entering four homes in the southeast side of town while naked. Prosecutors say it was Leffel's […]
A Fond du Lac man accused of exposing himself in front of young girls near a Fond du Lac park has been charged. William Thomas made his initial Fond du Lac court appearance Tuesday on multiple counts of exposing genitals to a child. According to a criminal complaint Thomas exposed himself on several occasions in front of girls near Taylor Park. The incidents occurred over a period of about a […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Farmers will produce a record-breaking corn harvest this year, surpassing earlier expectations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has revised upward its estimate of this year's corn harvest to 14 billion bushels. That exceeds last year's 13.9 billion bushel record. Soybean production also will set a new record at 3.8 billion bushels, beating the 2009 harvest of 3.4 billion bushels. Farmers are blessed with […]
APPLETON, Wis. (AP) — Fox Valley leaders have told the federal government they're unable to find shelter for unaccompanied minors who crossed into the United States at the Mexican border. Federal officials hoped to identify possible locations in northeastern Wisconsin to house up to 400 children from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. The U.S. Health and Human Services has been searching throughout the country for large facilities that are within […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee police say they didn't have to search far for a shooting suspect — they found him asleep in his car. Police officers responded Monday afternoon to a report of shots fired from a car. A patrol officer who was nearby responded and soon found a man asleep in the passenger seat of the car. He has been arrested on tentative charges of endangering safety and operating […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new report says Wisconsin state employees have one of the richest health insurance plans in the country and also pay among the highest premiums for that coverage. The Pew Charitable Trusts report comes as states are looking at ways to control growing public health insurance costs. State health plans nationwide paid 92 percent of a typical enrollee's health care costs last year. In Wisconsin, that […]
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Oscar-winner Robin Williams, whose free-form comedy and adept impressions dazzled audiences for decades, has died in an apparent suicide. He was 63. The Marin County Sheriff's Office says Williams was pronounced dead at his home in California on Monday. The sheriff's office says a preliminary investigation shows the cause of death to be a suicide due to asphyxia. Williams shot to fame in the late […]
A suspect is in custody in connection with a high speed chase involving three stolen vehicles in Dodge and Fond du lac counties. Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s captain Rick Olig says an 18 year old man was taken into custody without incident in Jefferson County Monday. Authorities say in addition to stealing the vehicles the suspect is also believed to have been involved in a residential burglary in […]
A Fond du Lac man is expected to make his initial court appearance Tuesday in connection with a series of home invasions. Lucas Leffel faces charges of burglary and attempted second degree sexual assault. Police Chief Bill Lamb says Leffel has admitted to entering four homes in the southeast side of town while naked. "These are frightening cases regardless of motive when they're entering homes," Lamb told WFDL news. "There are […]