Caledonia News

A motorcycle crash sends a Racine man to the hospital. Caledonia police said Jared Suminiski, 69, rear-ended a car on four mile road around 12:30 p.m. Thursday.

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CALEDONIA - Officials say federal stimulus money being funneled into Wisconsin's highways is expected to speed up the rebuilding of an Interstate 94 interchange in Racine County by three years.

Interlocks require a driver to pass a breath test before the vehicle will start.

The Legislature's Joint Finance Committee passed provisions overnight that would impose a tax on oil companies, increase the cigarette tax by 75 cents a pack and allow inmates to be released early.

Democratic lawmakers late Thursday voted to bridge a $1.6 billion budget gap by taxing outpatient surgery centers in the same way as hospitals, refinancing state debt and making promised cuts to schools, local governments and state agencies.

Wednesday night when the Powerball jackpot reached $222 million, business was brisk at Garya s Beer and Liquor.

The 7 Mile Fair in Caledonia is held every weekend with more than 500 dealers. more photos Journal Sentinel files The 7 Mile Fair in Caledonia is held every weekend with more than 500 dealers.

Almost 20,000 University of Wisconsin faculty and staff members could form their own unions under a budget measure endorsed Tuesday.

A photograph by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources shows a mountain lion in a tree west of Spooner, Wis.

Anna Lashley can't forget her surprise when she looked out her kitchen window in Caledonia three years ago and saw a big cat.

Local artist in residence, Roger McVey, performed pieces ranging from Debussy to Beethoven to Chopin during a faculty recital April 2 at the UW-River Falls Kleinpell Fine Arts Building inside William Abbott Concert Hall.

Officials say the victim of Saturday night's motorcycle versus deer accident is 49 year old Randy Kurer of Caledonia.

A man who died after his motorcycle struck a deer was identified Sunday by the Milwaukee County medical examiner as Randall Kurer, 49, of Caledonia in Racine County.

Dozens of parents turned out here Tuesday night in hopes of giving members of the Racine Unified School Board an earful.

Snow was starting to pile up in Madison and elsewhere in south-central Wisconsin Saturday night, but the worst was yet to come as temperatures began dropping and southeast parts of the state were expected to receive around 8 inches overnight and into this morning.

A former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived in Caledonia and had fought to stay in the U.S , even though he was stripped of his U. S. citizenship after his participation in Nazi acts of persecution were uncovered, has been deported to Austria, U. S. officials announced Thursday.

A suspected drunken driver was arrested after returning to the scene of a hit-and-run crash and then leading police on a chase in Racine County.

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Tom Lebak was torn. He wanted to be near Chicago, but knew if he wanted his "dream" job in city management, he had to first work in a smaller community.