MEDFORD, Wis. (AP) — Taylor County sheriff's officials say human remains have been found in the rubble of a tree stand fire. The sheriff's department was notified about a missing person after a 52-year-old Medford man failed to meet two others to go hunting. Medford police officers and sheriff's deputies began a search for the man and found his ATV on his rural property near a wooden, elevated box-like hunting […]
RICE LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A 24-year-old who served on the Rice Lake City Council and as mayor when he was only a teen is now joining the Wisconsin Legislature. Romaine Quinn says he believes his age is an advantage because he can relate to younger voters in ways many others cannot. He says he can better understand paying for college, buying a home and grappling with minimum wage. Quinn, […]
Two hundred turkeys, hams and other main course meats fill the Salvation Army freezer, in part, because of the Turkey Round Up. The Salvation Army collaborated with Sunny 97-7, AM1170, 96-1 TCX and grocers to create Saturday, November 15. "What a tremendous combined effort Saturday was," Social Service Director Ron Jacobson said. "The community continues to respond each time we extend an invitation to share with those who need our help," […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is reminding deer hunters their caps must be at least 50 percent blaze orange. The DNR says wardens sometimes come across hunters with caps that don't meet the requirement and others with faded orange caps. Officials say wardens will be carrying orange knit hats to give out to hunters when the 2014 gun season starts on Saturday.
The Fond du lac County Sheriff’s Office says a fatal rollover accident that claimed the lives of two Fond du Lac residents happened the night before the crash scene was discovered. The Sheriff’s Office says the driver, 19 year old Brandon Mans and passenger, 19 year old Ari Ebling-Hopf, both of Fond du lac died in a one vehicle rollover accident on Triple T Road just west of Log Tavern […]
A Fond du Lac man involved in an armed domestic standoff last month has been bound over for trial. Thirty one year old James Walsh waived his preliminary hearing Friday in Fond du Lac County Circuit court. Walsh is charged with first degree recklessly endangering safety, possession of a firearm while intoxicated, misdemeanor battery-domestic abuse and disorderly conduct-domestic abuse. He is free after posting $16,000 cash bond. Nobody was injured […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's love of the Packers, beer and cheese is being used by Governor Scott Walker's job-creation agency as part of a nationwide advertising campaign. The effort launching this month also includes radio ads in Chicago and the Twin Cities, areas that were targeted earlier this year as well. The $1.6 million ad campaign is the third phase of a multi-year effort begun by the Wisconsin Economic […]
RHINELANDER, Wis. (AP) — Outdoor enthusiasts may be ready to hit the recreational trails in northern Wisconsin after all the snow this week. But, managers at the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest say the trails aren't quite ready. Lands and recreation program manager Jeff Mell says the ground underneath the snow isn't frozen yet, and that sets the base for the trails. With soft ground conditions, users could easily damage the trails. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin transportation officials say a little more than half of drunken drivers are complying with orders to install ignition interlock devices. State Division of Motor Vehicles data indicating 56 percent of the nearly 14,000 offenders ordered to install an interlock last year did so, up from 43 percent in 2012. A 2010 state law mandates that all repeat OWI offenders as well as first-timers with blood […]