The attorney representing a 16-year-old accused of killing his father has withdrawn a request to have the case heard in juvenile court. Zachary Reid is being held on $300,00 cash bond. He's charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of his father, 53-year-old Brett Reid. He was ...
An 8-year-old Appleton boy had the ultimate show-and-tell for his third-grade class and the rest of McKinley Elementary School. Sam Arnoldussen arrived at school Tuesday in a stretch limo and brought his new friend, Green Bay Packers linebacker A.J. Hawk. Arnoldussen was the winner in the Packers market for ...
Sauk County deputies are looking for the driver of a vehicle that struck and killed a woman in Lake Delton. Authorities say the 62-year-old victim was attempting to walk across Highway 12 about 9:40 p.m. Tuesday when she was hit by a driver who fled the scene. She ...
An independent report on American higher education flunks all but one state when it comes to affordability. And that's unlikely to improve as the economy contracts. The biennial study by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, which evaluates how well higher education is serving the public ...
A La Crosse County judge will preside in the case of a Jackson County man accused of killing his ex-wife and hiding her corpse. Alisha Sidie, the mother of twin 2-year-old boys, was found dead in a wooded area Nov. 15, a week after being reported missing by ex-husband Douglas ...
A manufacturer of prefabricated homes blames the nation's financial crisis for its decision to permanently lay off 81 workers as of Jan. 30. Wausau Homes Inc. notified the state Department of Workforce Development of the plans that will affect about 81 production workers and other personnel. In a news ...
City officials are expressing concern for workers facing layoffs from Presto Products Co. in Weyauwega, and for the impact the job cuts will have on the community. Presto plans to cut about 110 employees, about a quarter of the plant's work force, starting in the first quarter of 2009 ...
According to Sheboygan police, a man who tried to stop two vandals wound up beaten and hospitalized in critical condition with a skull fracture. Police said Tuesday that the 35-year-old man had stopped at a Sheboygan residence Sunday night to help friends clean their apartment when he saw the vandals ...
The silver carp, one of the notorious leaping fish brought to the U.S. from China, has been found in the Mississippi River near La Crosse in its first known appearance in Wisconsin or Minnesota waters. La Crosse fisheries supervisor Ron Benjamin with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said ...
Authorities say a 36-year-old Cadott man is believed to have sexually assaulted a woman in Marshfield and then went home and shot himself to death. The Chippewa County Sheriff's Office said a 911 call came in Tuesday morning from a male caller saying there was a woman at the ...