Osseo News

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is doing its part to speed up your travels.

Larry Fideler walks thru a strawberry field at his Kewaskum Wednesday, June 10, 2009.

We now know more about the deadly plane crash that killed a doctor and his teenage son in Jackson County earlier this month.

Here are the latest street construction reports in the Chippewa Valley, according to the Eau Claire Public Works Department and state Department of Transportation: Under construction and closed to traffic Construction complete and road reopened - Alley south of Emery Street from Keith Street to east end.

While the plane crash investigation south of Osseo is now being led by the NTSB and the FAA -- it all started with nearby neighbors who heard the loud sound of an airplane in distress.

Preparations for a graduation party end with a phone call to a local fire department.

An Indiana truck driver involved in a fatal bus crash in western Wisconsin will appeal his federal convictions falsifying his driving log, his attorney said Thursday.

A former Whole Foods Market truck driver was found guilty Wednesday of making false entries in his driver's logs, some of them around the time when he caused a multiple-fatal crash involving a bus carrying Chippewa Falls Senior High School band members.

The driver of the semi-trailer truck that was struck by a bus carrying Chippewa Falls High School band members, killing five persons on board in 2005 near Osseo, didn't know that it was illegal to record false entries in his driver's logs, his lawyer told federal jurors Monday.

David O. Jacobson will spend Christmas Day and Christmas Eve in jail for the next 10 years in connection with the August crash that resulted in the death of his two passengers.

Several University of Wisconsin-Superior students involved in the universitya s Transportation and Logistics Management program have been chosen to showcase their undergraduate research projects this month at the State Capitol.

No one was injured during a house fire Sunday that caused an estimated $50,000 in damage.

Shortly after 9:15 a.m., the Osseo Fire Department along with Augusta Fire and the DNR responded to the scene.

Fire fighters from several departments were battling a grass and woodland fire Monday morning along Maple Bluff Road, southeast of Osseo, according to department dispatcher Kari Steen.

Authorities in western Wisconsin say a grass fire burned nearly 100 acres just southeast of Osseo.

The man found innocent by a St. Croix County jury in 2007 for criminal charges relating to the Chippewa Falls High School bus crash has now been charged by federal authorities.

The semitrailer truck driver involved in a fatal interstate crash in western Wisconsin in 2005 is facing additional federal charges of falsifying his driver's log.

As part of the honor, Larson will receive an expense-paid trip to Washington, DC May 18-20, where he will be recognized with top patrollers from other states.

A 27-year-old Eau Claire man who was on a Chippewa Falls marching band trip when a bus crashed into a semitrailer truck near Osseo in 2005 has received a $41,031 lawsuit settlement.

The mother of one of the two young people killed in a drunken driving crash near Eau Claire thinks a year in jail isn't enough for the driver responsible for the deaths.