Columbia County News

A prison sentence of more than 12 years and the severing of a mother-daughter relationship is the result of multiple sexual assaults by a Fall River man on a 13-year-old girl in early 2008.

One man is dead and another in the Columbia County Jail after a stabbing Tuesday on the street of Pardeeville's main business district.

At about 7:30 Monday night, a plane carrying two passengers made an emergency landing about one mile west of the Lodi Lakeland Airport in the town of Lodi, the Columbia County Sheriff's Office reported.

Authorities are warning Columbia County residents about two men who they say are attempting to enter occupied homes under false pretenses.

Columbia County authorities said one man has died and another is jailed after a stabbing on the street in downtown Pardeeville early Tuesday morning.

One man is dead and another jailed after a stabbing on the street in downtown Pardeeville.

Columbia County authorities are investigating the death of a man in Pardeeville after a physical altercation on Monday night.

A Columbia County inmate who tried to escape Tuesday from a prisoner transport van in De Pere is expected to face a new charge of attempted escape, a Wisconsin Department of Corrections spokesman said.

Would-be criminals might want to at least check the vehicles parked in a driveway before attempting to enter a house for nefarious purposes.

In the second leg of the Columbia County Board of Supervisors' extended conversation about money, the central theme of "doing more with less" branched off into varied topics, such as using cameras for law enforcement and computerizing birth, death and marriage records.

If you go What: Columbia County's annual Moo-Day Brunch When: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday Where: Sassy Cow Creamery, W4192 Bristol Road, near Columbus in the town of Hampden.

For the second time in little over a year, a Columbia County inmate briefly escaped while being moved by deputies, the Sheriff's Office said.

As bankrupt General Motors followed Chrysler LLC into a government-sponsored restructuring, developments kept alive hopes that the automakers' two Wisconsin factories won't close for good.

Seniors in communities north of Madison will be able to use vouchers once again to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables from local farmers' markets, thanks to a nutrition program through the University of Wisconsin Extension.

Columbia County Circuit Court Judge Alan White reduced cash bail from $750,000 to $450,000 for murder suspect Curtis Forbes at a hearing Friday.

As village president of Fall River, Columbia County's fastest-growing municipality, Dale Standke had more than a few questions about the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's plans to repave Highway 16 and widen its paved shoulders.

Wind turbine prices have fallen significantly in recent months amid the economic slowdown, and that, in turn, has brought down the projected cost to build the state's largest wind farm.

The swine flu has spread to extreme northeast Columbia County, as the Cambria-Friesland School District on Monday became the third district in the county to have at least one student with a laboratory-confirmed case of the viral illness.

The families of two students in the Columbus School District have told the district that the students are being tested for H1N1, or what is commonly referred to as swine flu.

A proposal to build a large-scale wind farm in Columbia County is being questioned by some of the same people who first supported it.