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A man from Appleton is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 10 for seeking sex from young girls on the Internet. Winnebago County prosecutors say they'll recommend 4-6 years in prison for Ryan Clewell, 26. But the judge does not have to go along with that, and Clewell faces up to 175...

An Appleton woman will spend a year in jail and five years on probation for embezzling $70,000 from a soccer club. Rhonda Graphos, 42, took the money from the Fox Valley Unified Soccer Club from 2005 to last year. And co-president Matthew Winters said hundreds of kids lost a chance...

Two Minneapolis men have struck plea deals after they were accused of stealing the head of a popular mechanical gorilla outside a store in Appleton. John Jenness, 28, had his criminal charge of theft reduced to a municipal violation. He has agreed to pay almost $2,000 in restitution...

Two high school students in Appleton have come down with bacterial meningitis, and officials say a third youngster might have the disease. The students go to Appleton North High School. City health officer Kurt Eggebrecht said they were sick while at an informal gathering away from...

Green Bay Packers' linebacker Nick Barnett has completed a deferred prosecution agreement so he won't be criminally convicted in an incident at an Appleton night club last summer. Barnett was first charged with disorderly conduct, but he agreed to stay clean in exchange for having...

Two Wisconsin cities are on a new list of America's Top-100 Places to Live. Appleton and Stevens Point were recognized by RelocateAmerica.com, a Web site for people who plan to move. The cities were not ranked in any special order. For Appleton, the site mentioned its new high-tech...

A judge in Appleton has revoked a big cash bond for the man accused of drugging his girlfriend into two miscarriages and then apparently bolting to his native India after he was arrested and freed. More than 20 people put up $750,000 to free Manish Patel. A judge will hold a hearing...