DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) — Five anglers from Wisconsin have been caught with 100 walleye over the state limit at Devils Lake and are each facing fines of more than $1,700. North Dakota Game and Fish wardens say they got a tip about a group of men who were overfishing and staying in a rental home in Devils Lake. A warden found 25 whole walleye in one of the fishermen's […]
An Oakfield woman received non life-threatening injuries when she was pinned by a lawnmower over the weekend. Shortly after 1pm Saturday rescue personnel were called to the scene at W 8095 Prairie Road in Oakfield. The Sheriff's Office received a report that as a lawnmower was being loaded onto a trailer it had rolled backward onto the 62-year-old- woman.
MONONA, Wis. (AP) — The eighth annual Wisconsin Wife Carry Championship Race was a big hit again this year, especially for Jon Fenrick of Middleton. He slung his 103-pound wife over his shoulders and completed the obstacle course Friday in a minute flat. With the victory he takes home $525 — plus his wife's weight in beer. The contest is an internationally sanctioned event. It was a big attraction at […]
Fond du Lac Police are continuing to investigate a bomb threat at the Fond du Lac Fleet Farm store on Thursday night. A police department news release says shortly after 6pm last Thursday a store employee discovered a threat indicating that a bomb was going to go off at a specific time. The store on Rogersville Road was evacuated and the area was blocked off to traffic as officers searched the store. Store […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An aide to Gov. Scott Walker who got caught up in a secret investigation into illegal campaigning has landed a new state job with a hefty pay raise. Cindy Archer has been hired as chief information technology officer for the state public defender's office. Her hourly salary is $54.34 an hour. That's an 11.7 percent increase from the $48.62 per hour she was making previously as […]
ELKHORN, Wis. (AP) — A detective says a former police officer told him that he killed two women during rough sex and then put their bodies in suitcases that he hid for months before dumping them in rural Wisconsin. Walworth County Sheriff's Detective Jeffrey Recknagel testified Thursday during a preliminary hearing for 52-year-old Steven Zelich. Zelich is charged with two counts of hiding a corpse after the suitcases were found […]
POYGAN, Wis. (AP) — A Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman says an ultralight airplane crashed in central Wisconsin and the pilot was killed. Elizabeth Isham Cory said Wednesday in a statement that the pilot was the sole occupant of the single-engine plane. It crashed in a field west of Omro around 7:15 p.m. Wednesday. Multiple law enforcement and emergency medical departments in western Winnebago County responded to the report of a […]
TOWN OF MAINE, Wis. (AP) — An Outagamie County father and his teenage son are hospitalized after a lawn mower exploded. The pair was working on the lawn mower at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Town of Maine when the fuel ignited. Both were burned, and the father had to be airlifted to a Madison hospital. The son was taken by ambulance to Theda Clark Medical Center in Neenah. Their […]
A Juneau woman has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and has pleaded no contest to a theft charge for embezzling more than 32 thousand dollars when she was an employee of Beaver Dam Raceway. 54 year old Roxanne Siedschlag entered the plea to a charge of theft of a business setting of over 10 thousand dollars in Dodge County Circuit Court. Two other theft counts were dismissed and read […]