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Highway 14 closed for vehicle crash investigation
VERNON COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - Highway 14 is currently closed for an investigation of a serious two-vehicle, head-on crash. The Vernon County Sheriff’s Office said the crash happened on US Highway 14, Northwest of Green Acres Road, South of Viroqua around 6 p.m. Highway 14 is closed and County...
Woman arrested following hit-and-run
VERNON COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - A woman was charged today following a hit-and-run crash last Wednesday. On April 17, just before 4 p.m., 32-year-old Tasha Sittig of rural Lone Rock, Wis. was arrested following a hit-and-run reported earlier that morning at the intersection of County Road C and Pine Road in the village of Yuba in Richland County.
Wisconsin Senate Democrats blame Republicans for UW-Richland closing
(The Center Square) – Democrats at the Wisconsin Capitol are laying the blame for the end of the UW-Platteville Richland campus on statehouse Republicans but aren’t acknowledging the school’s drop in enrollment. A handful of Senate Democrats on Thursday told reporters that years of underfunding are to blame for this week’s decision to fully close the UW-PLatteville campus in Richland Center. “It is not lost on me, and it should...
Man accused of killing ex-girlfriend, stuffing body in suitcase, enters not guilty plea
CHIPPEWA FALLS — The man accused of killing his girlfriend and unborn child and leaving her body in a suitcase in the town of Wheaton appeared in Chippewa County Court on Wednesday, where he entered not guilty pleas to charges related to their deaths. The body of Rosaly Cindy Chavarria Rodriguez, who was 25 at the time she went missing in July 2020, was discovered at a farmhouse in the Town of Wheaton on Oct. 14, 2020. She lived in the Lake Delton area and...
Sauk County Board looks to sell county nursing home
REEDSBURG, Wis. -- The Sauk County Board is looking to sell their county-owned assisted living facility the Sauk County Health Care Center in the coming months. Sauk County has owned a nursing home facility since 1871. The 82-bed Sauk County Health Care Center was built in Reedsburg in 2008. "Right...
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