Nelsonville News

A central Wisconsin man accused of killing his estranged girlfriend and two of their children will stand trial for murder.

Harold and Irene Alm of Amherst celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary with an open house at the Elizabeth Inn in Plover.

Fleeing officer: At about 1:26 a.m. Saturday near Highway HH, east of Burbank Road, town of Stockton, the Portage County Sheriff's Department was performing stationary radar.

The recent homicides in Nelsonville shook many of us to our core. Law enforcement officials described how they can never really be prepared for what they found.

The man charged with killing his girlfriend and their 2 children appears in Portage County court Tuesday.

A Portage County judge continued a $500,000 cash bond Tuesday and set a preliminary hearing date for the man charged in the death of a mother and her two children April 30 in Nelsonville.

Prosecutors have charged a central Wisconsin man with three counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of his estranged girlfriend and their two children.

A man accused of killing his estranged girlfriend and two of their children had sealed himself and an infant daughter inside his gasoline-soaked home before deputies arrived, a prosecutor said Monday.

She's named after her great-grandmother Esther. She has dark eyelashes, dark eyes and dark hair, and though she's nearly 7 months old, she still manages to fit into clothes meant for a 3-month-old. More than one week after Esther Kettner lost her mother, sister and brother in a triple homicide, a fund has been set up to help raise money for the ...

STEVENS POINT -- One week after a mother and two of her children were found dead in Nelsonville, the aftermath remains not only for the community, but for those called to the scene.

As police continue their investigation into this week's triple murder in Portage County, a missing minivan belonging to one of the victim's is recovered.

Portage County Detective Sgt. Gary Koehmstedt said the van located Saturday morning near the Tomorrow River could be connected to the homicide in Nelsonville in some way.

The Portage County Sheriff's Department is looking for a vehicle belonging to one of the people found dead in Nelsonville Thursday.

Portage County coroner Scott Rifleman says two toddlers found dead in their gasoline-soaked home died of single gunshot wounds to the head.

A man being held on three intentional homicide charges could make his initial appearance in Portage County Court as early as Monday.

Authorities are releasing more details in the deaths of a woman and two of her young children in a gasoline-soaked home in the tiny village of Nelsonville, just east of Stevens Point.

Portage County Coroner Scott Rifleman confirmed the cause of death for the three found dead in Nelsonville Thursday.

Three people are dead and four were taken to the hospital after an incident at a home in Nelsonville, which is east of Stevens Point.

A 36-year-old Nelsonville man is being held by the Portage County Sheriff's Department as a person of interest after three people, including two children, were found dead in a home here Thursday.

Ernest 'Ernie' Augustine, 83, Stevens Point, passed away Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in Wauwatosa.