Walworth News

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CLINTON Emergency crews searched for nearly a half hour to find two people injured in an early Friday morning rollover crash, 2 miles east of Clinton on Interstate 43, said Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper Brandon Ferrell.

NBC15 Weather Authority Forecast Rain develops Tuesday and continues occasionally through midweek.

On Monday, officials at Walworth Joint School District No. 1 announced they were closing the Walworth elementary and middle schools, which are in the same building at 121 Beloit St., for the remainder of this week because of "high absenteeism among students and staff." More than 30 percent of students called in sick or were sent home sick, said ...

Forty percent of the students Greendale's at Canterbury Elementary School were out sick Monday with flu-like symptoms, so the Health Department decided to close the school until Friday.

Classes have been canceled at Walworth Elementary and Middle Schools until next Monday.

The town and village of Walworth hope to have a paid-on-premises fire and rescue service in place by the end of the year, officials said.

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Seven students from Bigfoot High School in Walworth have been injured in a crash.

Seven Walworth County teenagers were hurt when their car hit a tree Tuesday night.

Authorities tell reporter Diane Pathieu, the driver of the 1999 Crown Victoria was speeding and lost control of the car on the curve off Cobblestone Road in the Town of Walworth.

WALWORTH TOWNSHIPa 'Seven Big Foot High School students were injured after the car they were riding in crashed into a tree on Cobblestone Road west of Walworth-Linn Townline Road on Tuesday night.

The National Weather Service issued a tornado watch this evening to last until 2 a.m. Counties affected by the tornado watch, which means that conditions are favorable for a tornado to form, are Dodge, Milwaukee, Rock, Waukesha, Jefferson, Ozaukee, Walworth, Kenosha, Racine and Washington.

Published Sept. 24, 2009 at 7:00 a.m. A dense fog advisory is forcing some area schools to delay opening today.Dodgeland and Waupun schools and St.

State agriculture officials have ordered an Elkhorn farm to stop selling raw milk after more than two dozen people fell ill.

State Senator Mary Lazich represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth.

Heather M. Weiland appeared in Walworth County Court on Monday and pleaded not guilty.

The lakefront festival, which is sponsored by the Lake Geneva Jaycees and is a major fundraiser for several civic organizations, usually draws tens of thousands of people to Library, Seminary and Flat Iron parks over its five days.

Paul Ryan encouraged health care debate in a public letter released Tuesday, but he also wagged a preemptive finger at the "widespread disrespect and even violence" by extremists on both sides.

Property taxes collected in Walworth County increased 6.5 percent between 2008 and 2009, the biggest increase among seven counties in southeastern Wisconsin, according to a report developed by Milwaukee-based Public Policy Forum, non-profit, non-partisan policy research group.