Burnett News

Velda L. Rechek, 83, of Waupun, died on Monday, June 29, 2009, at Waupun Memorial Hospital.

A 19-year-old Beaver Dam man who is charged with using improvised explosive devices to blow up a portable toilet and mailbox now faces additional gun-related charges in a separate case.

Donny Goeden and Brad Lubach won A-main races at the rain-shortened Plymouth Dirt Track Racing program Saturday night at the Sheboygan County Fairgrounds.

A murder charge has been dropped against a Minneapolis firefighter who claims he shot and killed a man in self defense last year in Wisconsin's Burnett County.

A 51-year-old Beaver Dam man was killed in a two-vehicle crash in the Township of Burnett Friday.

A 51-year-old rural Beaver Dam man died of apparent injuries sustained in a two-car crash the occurred Friday evening in the Town of Burnett.

A Juneau man has been convicted on a dozen counts of theft in a business setting for failing to make good on contracts people entered into with Andy's Roofing.

JUNEAU - A Burnett man found guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old Waupun girl is going to prison.

Two out of three men accused of using pipe bombs to destroy a mailbox and a portable toilet in April were arrested when they returned to the scene of the crime to "admire the damage," according to police.

Jim Larsen Boys & Girls Club of Door County wants to thank the m ore than 180 supporters who attended our spring fish boil.

LAWRENCE PLAY: Lawrence University presents Thornton Wilder's 1942 Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'The Skin of Our Teeth' at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 3 and 8 p.m. Saturday in Stansbury Theatre on the Appleton campus.

A group in western Wisconsin has started a health co-op, Cooperative Health Choices of Western Wisconsin.

PIUS XI High School is pleased to present Disney's Beauty and the Beast at the historic Pabst Theater in downtown Milwaukee.

JUNEAU - Three men suspected of setting off two homemade bombs in Dodge County last week have been arrested.

The Oshkosh-based Jubricosa theater group will put on a dinner theater show in Neenah next month.

A rumored sharp drop in global ad spending by Philip Morris could spell big trouble for Leo Burnett/Chicago, where the cigarette giant has long been one of the agency's flagship accounts.

In raising sheep, having two lambs per ewe is desirable, which is why sheep farmer Barb Salas was especially jubilant when earlier this month six of her ewes had quadruplets.

JUNEAU - The three men suspected of creating and detonating homemade bombs in Dodge County are in custody, the sheriff says.

Dodge County authorities are investigating two explosions that destroyed a mail box and portable toilet within 36 hours.

Authorities have released still photographs of three men shopping in a Beaver Dam store who purchased a pipe similar to that used to create a bomb that was detonated in Dodge County.