Gays Mills News

Deputies say a man drove drunk and hit two parked vehicles. 40-year-old Dennis George was cited for various violations including his 5th OWI offense and open intoxicant.

A little over a year ago the tiny town of Gays Mills was almost washed away by flood waters coming from the Kickapoo River, but since then, things have changed.

Governor Jim Doyle today announced that 34 communities, including Gays Mills in Crawford County, would share $39,220,410 in federal supplemental funds under the Community Development Block Grant Program.

A sheriff says deputies arrested four suspects in at least three burglaries in the area.

Two record-setting floods in less than a year have left those in Gays Mills still trying to recover.

While discussions continue about relocating the entire flood-ravaged Crawford County community of Gays Mills, area residents said that they're preparing for the worst yet again.

A federal judge in Illinois has sentenced a former Wisconsin elk farmer to five months of home confinement for illegally transporting elk.

When the 2007-2008 winter season was in the books, many places in Wisconsin received up to 240% of their normal winter snowfall.

By MELANIE CONKLIN 608-252-6187 mconklin@madison.com Four-year-old Mickey Paul Pafford Jr.

A near head-on collision this morning between a car and a truck on Highway 61 in Grant County totaled both vehicles and left both drivers injured.

Wisconsin agriculture officials are calling a meeting of hog farmers and landowners after finding a feral hog they think is infected with pseudorabies.

So, in a state where macro and micro breweries flourish, Yahara Bay is nudging our producing a touch closer to our drinking.

The farm immortalized in Ben Logan's book "The Land Remembers" is being protected with a conservation agreement.