Oneida County News

TOWN OF NEWBOLD - The Oneida County Sheriff's office has released the name of the 46-year-old man died on Thursday at the scene of a single motorcycle crash on County Highway J east of Pinewood Drive.

A motorcyclist is dead after a crash in the Oneida County town of Newbold. Sheriff's officials said the man failed to negotiate a curve on County Highway J and crashed.

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Detectives who kept a woman's lawyer from seeing her during questioning about her infant nephew's death may have manipulated her, but their actions don't warrant discarding statements she made that helped convict her, the state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

As part of his a oeGrow Wisconsina initiative to invest in Wisconsina s infrastructure and stimulate our statea s economy, Governor Jim Doyle recently signed a $1.3 million contract to improve nine miles of WIS 32 between the Forest County Line and US 45 in Oneida County.

A "not guilty" plea has been entered for Amanda Bodoh. The 21-year-old is charged with Felony Child Neglect in the overdose death of her 10-month old daughter.

The 16th annual Fishing Has No Boundaries on the Eagle River Chain of Lakes Friday through Sunday brought 118 participants and more than 100 volunteers together for a weekend of fishing.

A Rhinelander woman will have to stand trial in the death of her daughter. According to online court records, a judge made the ruling for 21-year old Amanda Bodah after a preliminary hearing Wednesday morning in Oneida County.

Despite a recession that weighed heavily on many sectors of Wisconsin's economy in 2008, tourism remained strong in Vilas and Oneida counties, bringing more than $470 million into the local economy, officials said.

They're often overlooked, but the preparations emergency responders make before a crisis often save lives during one.

With dignity, decorum and certainly plenty of delight, the Elcho senior class graduated in ceremonies Saturday afternoon.

May. 26, 2009 8:18 p.m. A 10-month-old girl died after her father let her overdose on morphine, prosecutors in Rhinelander said Tuesday.

A mother and father have been charged in Rhinelander in their 10-month-old daughter's death from a drug overdose.

TOWN OF PELICAN - Two Rhinelander-area parents were arrested Friday after an autopsy showed their 10-month old child died of an overdose of a controlled substance, according to the Oneida County Sheriff's Department.

North/south runways at Austin Straubel International Airport and a drainage culvert that runs underneath them are the focus of a rehabilitation project happening this summer, thanks to about $2.7 million in federal stimulus package funding.

Although they hope it's never needed, Wood County and Wisconsin Rapids special response teams are ready to put a regional armored car to use.

Firefighters Thursday worked to contain as many as 91 forest fires in Wisconsin, including one that destroyed several structures and caused evacuations near Park Falls.

Daily walleye bag limits for sport anglers will increase this Friday on 255 lakes in Wisconsin's ceded territory, including 99 lakes in Oneida County that will go from a two-fish limit to five fish.

A 44-year-old Rhinelander man was killed in a motorcycle accident in Oneida County Tuesday night.

One person is dead after a fatal car crash in Minocqua today. At approximately 4:12 a.m. on May 2, 2009 searchers located a vehicle in a ditch on Highway 70 at Hartman Road.