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Neglect suspected at Pierce County home
Almost 50 methamphetamine pipes, moldy food containers and bags of garbage packed a rural Ellsworth home where authorities removed a child and...
 News/crime and courts August 20, 2018 - 3:32pm
Two Wisconsin National Guard units deploying to Afghanistan
Two units from the Wisconsin Army National Guard will deploy to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom this spring, according to a press release issued Wednesday afternoon, March 12. Sussex-based Battery A of the 1st Battalion, 121st Field Artillery Regiment and the...
 News March 12, 2014 - 2:35pm
Joan Ocampo-Yambing was mourned during a prayer service Aug. 21 at St. John’s Church at Creighton Catholic University in Omaha. Yambing, a Rosemount native, was killed Aug. 21 when the car she was riding in was rear-ended by a semi truck on Interstate 80 in Nebraska. Submitted photo courtesy of Creighton University.
Rosemount grad mourned after fatal Nebraska crash
A Rosemount High School graduate died in a four-vehicle crash Aug. 21 in Omaha, Neb. Joan R. Ocampo-Yambing, 19, was one of four college students...
 News/accidents August 22, 2017 - 4:54pm
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Senior Julia VanWatermeulen was the top finisher for Ellsworth at the 2017 Roy Griak Invitational, placing 158th in the girls Maroon race. She's shown in the recent Somerset Invitational. Dave Newman / RiverTown Multimedia
Panther runners experience the big time
Getting to run on the biggest cross country stage in the Midwest is an opportunity some area runners receive when they compete at the Roy Griak...
 sports September 26, 2017 - 4:00pm
Crow found in Pierce County tests positive for West Nile virus
A dead crow found in Pierce County has tested positive for West Nile virus, the Pierce County Health Department reported. This is the first bird to test positive for the disease in Pierce County since surveillance began May 1. "The positive bird means that residents of Pierce County...
 lifestyle/health August 1, 2012 - 12:51pm
Authorities in northern Wisconsin arrested Doug Nitek, 43, the morning of Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016. Nitek, pictured in a mug shot taken Sunday morning, is suspected of fatally shooting Rusk County Sheriff's Deputy Dan Glaze on Saturday night. (Courtesy: Barron County's Sheriff's Office)
Man captured in fatal shooting of northwest Wisconsin deputy
LADYSMITH, Wis.—A sheriff's deputy in northwestern Wisconsin was fatally shot Saturday night, and authorities arrested a 43-year-old man...
 News October 31, 2016 - 9:16am
Ryan David Petersen
Murder trial begins with lawyers agreeing that Woodbury man was the shooter
On April 7, Ryan David Petersen, 37, of Woodbury shot Chase Passauer of Hastings eight times at a law office above W.A. Frost in St. Paul, then...
 News/crime and courts October 4, 2016 - 2:26pm
A portion of Water Street in Eau Claire was closed off while authorities responded to reports of an armed man inside a bank. Photo courtesy of Eau Claire Police Department
Wisconsin roundup: Eau Claire police respond to armed standoff at bank; more state news stories
Police had a bank surrounded Tuesday in Eau Claire, where an armed man who had set a fire in the building remained barricaded inside.
News/crime and courts June 5, 2018 - 12:05pm
Landgraf is new VSO for St. Croix County
St. Croix County Phil Landgraf was recently named as the new veterans service officer for St. Croix County, beginning his new duties during the...
 News/government and politics February 14, 2017 - 5:00pm
Officers surround a student who appears to be shot. The drill had students trapped in classrooms and fleeing through the hallways.
Active shooter drill: keeping it real
The campus of Hudson High School went from calm to chaos last Tuesday as it became the scene of one of the largest active shooter drills ever...
 News/crime and courts June 18, 2015 - 9:53am
The SkiDox boat with three 150 hp motors pulls six skiers past the crowd at Ohuta Beach in Lake City on June 24, 2018. Steve Gardiner / RiverTown Multimedia
Water ski show emphasizes teamwork
LAKE CITY — When the SkiDox water ski team roared past the crowd at Water Ski Days y with members stacked three levels high, they were...
 community/events June 28, 2018 - 6:00am
School threat in Red Wing results in arrest
Editor's note: This story is from March 2, 2018.
News/crime and courts March 2, 2018 - 4:19pm
Theft of at least $10,000 in ginseng nets fines, 20-year harvest ban for Independence man
MADISON -- A Trempealeau County man has been ordered to pay nearly $4,000 in fines and restitution following his conviction of illegally harvesting at least $10,000 of wild ginseng without permission and out of season in a case a DNR warden calls an “all too common” violation...
 News/crime and courts May 14, 2014 - 10:20am
Jeff Dubay
Dubay sentenced for 2017 assault
WASHINGTON COUNTY — Former Twin Cities sports radio personality Jeffrey Dubay will not face jail time for an August 2017 assault. Dubay,...
 News/crime and courts April 12, 2018 - 10:51am
The Left Wing Bourbon Soul Band will perform at the June 8 “BigRiverGive” Street Dance in Stockholm, Wisconsin, from 6-9 p.m. Submitted photo
Stockholm hosts BigRiverGive street dance
The population of Stockholm is expected to triple, or maybe quadruple, when local merchants close down the street for a dance party at 6 p.m....
 community/events June 5, 2018 - 5:56pm

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