Polk County News

An abandoned container was found early this morning near Balsam Lake in Polk County.

Polk County deputies say Jenny Moryn was arrested Saturday night for having two kids in her vehicle as she drove with an alcohol level nearly 4-times the legal limit.

More than 100 breakaway Lutherans attended their first church meeting in protest to last summer's vote by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to bless same-sex relationships and ordain practicing homosexual ministers.

A marijuana-growing operation is busted in Polk County. Investigators found 9-marijuana plants inside a rural Amery home, and found another nearly 1.5-pounds of harvested marijuana.

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.