Spooner News

GRANTSBURGa 'Jessie Fender is one of the few people who have driven over an improvised explosive device and survived the blast.

The Washburn County Sheriff's Department says two drivers involved in a head-on collision both died on Thanksgiving.

Kip Olson has a bar in Spooner named after his wife. It's called Moe's Place, and he would like to bring in topless dancers or pole dancers or at least offer 'bikini dancing' for men who appreciate what he calls a form of art.

Wisconsin school districts do not have standard policies for verifying licenses and performing background checks on teachers hired by private online class providers educating hundreds of students through virtual programs.

It's a case that Washburn County District Attorney Michael Bitney said will stay with him forever.

The Spooner man who survived the I-35 W bridge collapse, and was later convicted of abusing his fiance's toddler, is serving a seven and a half year prison sentence.

Several Wisconsin lawmakers are pushing an assembly committee to adopt a bill that would increase the penalty for hurting a child.

Two mountain lions were reportedly seen crossing Lance Drive near Highway O late last month.

Wisconsin authorities continue to piece together a murder-suicide that happened this passed weekend, and on Tuesday they released a possible motive.

Authorities found two bodies at separate fire sites over the weekend in what the Sawyer County sheriff's office is calling an apparent murder-suicide. Authorities found the body of David W. Palm, 43, of Birchwood, Wis., Saturday evening at a fire scene on Sawyer County Highway F in Edgewater Township.

Sawyer County sheriff's authorities suspect murder-suicide after two men are found dead in separate fires.

Two separate fires have turned up two bodies this weekend in Wisconsin and authorities believe they may be connected in a homicide.

Quoting some hunters on Wednesday night; "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." That was the consensus at a public hearing in Spooner, Wisconsin, where people had a chance to weigh-in on changing the state's deer hunt from nine days--to 16.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's first permanent branch farming research station is gearing up for its 100th birthday.

Oct. 10, 2009 4:26 p.m. NAACP Milwaukee branch President Jerry Ann Hamilton said she anticipated and welcomes an investigation of the local branch and expects that it will be dismissed "as frivolous." Hamilton initially had no comment when she was asked about the formal complaint that's been filed by 20 members of the local branch with the national ...

Donald J. Lorenz, 76, of N. 20th Street, passed away Saturday morning, October 10, 2009 at the Sharon S. Richardson Hospice.

Contact : Ken Scherer 635-4052 Reilly Warner - Operator 943-2026 Sue Kopras 943-2450 SPOONER - A 'Boil Water' notice is being issued by the Village of Exeland in Sawyer County to its water consumers until completion of modifications to its water system at the request of the Department of Natural Resources Modifications to the discharge piping ...

Nearly 400 Wisconsin National Guard soldiers have been notified about a possible mobilization to Iraq.

Unemployment numbers have doubled in Rusk, Barron and Washburn counties this year, causing many people in that region to lose their medical insurance, said Bette Colville.

Wisconsin State Patrol, Washburn Sheriff's Office, Spooner Fire Department and DNR team up to find missing woman with dementia September 18, 2009 The Washburn County Sheriff's Office requested assistance from other area law enforcement agencies on Wednesday afternoon, Sept.