Melrose News

Drivers on Highway 41 and Interstate 43 drove into near whiteout conditions Wednesday during the blizzard, but regardless some dared to venture out.

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.