Melrose News

One of the suspects accused of bombing Jackson County mailboxes has had his charges dismissed.

Amy Possley and Donald Yurske, both of Cedar Grove, were married May 9, 2009, at First Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Cedar Grove.

Cal Smokowicz likes to stay busy; the new Lake Hallie police chief also works about six hours a week as the part-time police chief in the village of Melrose.

Deputies say a driver backed up and hit a man that had just opened the passenger door of the vehicle he had been in.

Recently, a host of US retail jewelers and press traveled with the fashion-forward REBECCA jewelry brand, distributed by TESTI USA in America, to Empoli, on the outskirts of Florence, to witness the making of the Italian jewelry that is taking America by storm.

Traffic was detoured for a few hours after a motorcycle crashed with a SUV. The Sparta Police Department says 18-year-old Trent Mueller of Sparta was riding the motorcycle on Highway 16 at about 1:30 Thursday afternoon, when he hit the SUV, driven by a Melrose man.

Jordan Meade, of Durand, Wis., is thrown during the saddle bronc competition of the 6th annual WHSRA Regional Rodeo at the Tri-State Equine Park in Dubuque on Saturday.

Danna Jessie made it look easy. The calf hit the end of her lariat rope and popped it loose from her saddle - the desired result of the timed event of breakaway roping.

He's a man with a bit of a mystery on his hands... actually 17 of them, 17 long-lost gravestones.