Melrose News

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.

A man has been charged with having child pornography on his computer. 36-year-old Luke O. Gilbert of Melrose is charged with possession of child pornography.

Prom is always a special memory for high school students, but for two of them in Melrose, it will be something they'll never forget.

The following students from west-central Wisconsin have been named to the dean's list.

Birds try to land on the porch railing and are surprised when they skid and can't stop.

Unforeseen costs and additional work will account for about $22,000 worth of added expenses to Melrose's $3.15 million water project.

The following was reported by the Jackson County Sheriff's Department Incidents Dec.

Incidents Oct. 23 9:40 a.m.: John L. Lucci, 57, Kenosha, reported trespassers on his property on County Road F north of East Moore Road had stolen two trespassing signs from trees.

A Melrose woman was charged last week in the hit-and-run of an Amish buggy that killed a horse and injured two people.

A 33-year-old Melrose woman has been charged with two felonies and two misdemeanors for allegedly injuring three people and killing a horse when crashing into an Amish buggy last month.

Juan G. Aguilar, 34, Black River Falls, was booked for battery and disorderly conduct.

Daniel Borntreger's home looks like hundreds of other Wisconsin farmhouses: two-story A-frame, porch, clothes on the line.

Melrose police were able to recover both vehicles stolen from Waughtal Motor Sales last month and future arrests are likely.