Albany News

My JCPenney Christmas catalog came in the mail this week. It is not the phonebook-fat tome of my youth.

KEITH M. SCHROEDER, 21, Albany, at 12:11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 6, at Main Street and Countryside Drive, Evansville.

As the economy struggles and states crunch budget numbers, one group has a plan to keep as much of that state money as possible here in Wisconsin.

Some people eat and sleep bicycling. In Brodhead, the sleep part is easy. Earth Rider is a boutique hotel whose five rooms are named for the five-time winners of the Tour de France and are decorated with a bike theme that extends to touches such as a chair made from bike rims and a desk with bike gears enclosed in its glass top.

Warnings of dense fog this morning weren't weather forecasters crying wolf, as a Green County driver couldn't see a stop sign because of fog and crashed into the sign early Monday morning.

Several people spend their Independence day slowly cruising down the Sugar River just south of Albany, Wis.

SARAH A. MCCARTHY, 20, of 841 E. Milwaukee St., Janesville, at 2:10 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Parker Drive and Wall Street, on charges of second-degree reckless injury and resisting arrest, after a 32-year-old woman was stabbed in the back with a knife.

Many southern Wisconsin communities have planned events for Memorial Day weekend.

Officially it's the Midwest National Spring Holstein Show, a gathering of Holstein dairy cattle purists who parade their top show animals before the eyes of a discriminating judge for trophies, ribbons and prestige.

Linda K. Johnsrud describes her job as finding ways in which the 10 UH campuses can deliver on the state's needs for an educated work force and diverse economy.