Polk County News

Several briefcases that were sealed with tape and left in plain view commanded the full attention of law enforcement Monday.

West Bend a ' The Washington County Board agreed Tuesday to pay up to $756,000 this year for all buildings and facilities at Fair Park owned by the Agricultural and Industrial Society.

The first person to be convicted of breaking the Livestock Premises Registration Law has been ordered to pay nearly $400. Thirty-nine-year-old Patrick Monchilovich of Cumberland was found guilty by a Polk County judge last Wednesday.

A Polk County farmer has been found guilty of violating Wisconsin's livestock premises registration law, and ordered to pay nearly $400. Patrick Monchilovich, 39, of Cumberland, is the first person to be convicted of violating the law, which took effect in November 2005.

A Polk County judge has ruled in favor of the state of Wisconsin in the state's second case of a farmer refusing to register a livestock premises.

Gov. Jim Doyle threw his support behind a bill Wednesday that would require people to submit a DNA sample when arrested on felonies, rather than when convicted.

One night in August, Rose Marie Bly disappeared. Her mother said the St. Croix Falls, Wis., woman, who disappeared less than a month before her 22nd birthday, is a loving mother who would never leave her two young children, and police say no one they have talked to has said otherwise.

The husband of Rose Marie Bly, a St. Croix Falls, Wis., mother of two who has been missing for three weeks, has filed for divorce.

The Wisconsin State Patrol will honor a trooper killed earlier this year. The patrol plans to give Jorge Dimas' family a posthumous Purple Heart during a ceremony this afternoon at the state Capitol.

The Wisconsin State Patrol will honor a trooper killed earlier this year. The patrol plans to give Jorge Dimas' family a posthumous Purple Heart during a ceremony this afternoon at the state Capitol.

A 34-year-old Somerset resident and Osceola area business manager was arrested Tuesday in connection with a series of lawn and farm equipment thefts that spanned throughout western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota.

A man is dead after an accident in Polk County. Sheriff's officials say 37-year old Travis Webb of Luck was helping his wife jumpstart her car along a town road near Cushing.

A Polk County man was killed over the weekend as he tried to assist his wife with a vehicle.

A Luck area man was killed last Saturday as he was attempting to jump start a vehicle near Evergreen Avenue near 260th Street in Sterling Township.

Deputies are looking for information after they found about 750 small marijuana plants in Polk County.

There are no new leads in the search for a missing Polk County, Wisconsin woman.

Authorities in Polk County, Wis., are seeking the public's help in locating a 21-year-old mother of two who went missing Friday night.

St. Croix County has become accustomed to being a leader in Wisconsin. Usually, it's for population growth and median family income.

Christopher M. Lyman Charges have been filed in an alleged hit-and-run accident that left a 24-year-old Minneapolis motorcyclist dead in Polk County, Wis., over the weekend.

A federal grand jury in Madison has indicted a 54-year-old rural Amery area man on methamphetamines charges.