DeForest News

It 's been nine months since a former Sun Prairie day-care worker was charged with abusing a toddler, but on Tuesday she finally faced a preliminary hearing in the case and was ordered to stand trial.

Control of the state Assembly -- and with it the direction of state government over the next two years -- could well rest in the hands of voters like Mark Wentland, of DeForest.

Fireworks displays will be held all over the area Friday night as local communities shoot off their pyrotechnics to help celebrate the 232nd birthday of America on the Fourth of July.

Dane Fest will be held this weekend in the Town of Dane in the northern part of the county, and the Dane County Sheriff's Office wants you to know there is no excuse for driving home drunk from the popular ...

The Far Outliers spent last weekend in the stormy Wisconsin Dells , celebrating my mother-in-law's 80th birthday with a small family reunion in a cabin at Cedar Crest Lodge on the Wisconsin River, just off Sauk ...

A woman who was injured in a house explosion Monday in the Town of Windsor has been identified.

The woman critically injured in a town of Windsor house explosion and fire Monday has died.

" At approximately 2:30 p.m., Dane County Sheriff's Deputies along with Deforest Fire Department & EMS, Sun Prairie Fire Department & EMS, Arlington Fire Department and the Waunakee Fire Department responded to ...

The day I graduated from Adams-Friendship High School -- never mind the year -- was the day I started to really understand that, when it came to school, I wasn't in it alone.

Arrest warrants were issued this week for two Dane County men accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of stainless steel from Dane County businesses.

A girl remains hospitalized after falling from a roof. According to DeForest Police, police and EMS responded at 9:43 a.m. Monday.

State Journal Matt Tuggle talks with his mother, Patricia Kroetz, left, and Lila Schmidt of the Mental Health Center of Dane County before a court hearing about his participation in the Dane County Day Report ...

Students from the Madison Metropolitan School District lag behind their state peers in data released Friday morning by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction in five subject areas for the Wisconsin ...

LA CROSSE -- Oladipo Fagbemi is in the position he expected -- no more, no less.

Many Madison area residents reported receiving "bogus" parking citations placed on their vehicles.

By Jake Miller * Marshfield News-Herald * May 28, 2008 Oladipo Fagbemi and Jade Lucas will make the trip to La Crosse this year.

A man who was arrested early in the investigation of Brittany Zimmermann's murder after he was reported going door-to-door trying to get money for a non-existent tire repair was sent back to prison for more ...

Lucas Sevedge spent a year and a half working at McDonald's to earn enough money to buy the used Canon XL1 digital videocamera that is now one of his most prized possessions.

Ashley Hagmann and Eric Cooley, Sturgeon Bay, have announced plans to marry Jan.

A county road was blocked from traffic Saturday afternoon due to a fire involving bales of hay in the town of Windsor. via The Capital Times