Cross Plains News

Madison, WI. January 5, 2009 a ' Friday, January 2nd marked the first night of the Dane County Traffic Teams overtime OWI enforcement.

It was a relatively quiet New Year's Eve on rural roads and highways in Dane County.

Honors: A number of local teachers are among the 74 Wisconsin teachers awarded certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Toward the end of the year, there were more than the usual number of restaurant closings.

Dr. Linnea Smith left her family medical practice in Prairie du Sac to take her doctoring deep in the Amazon rainforest in Peru, in a spot so remote that patients arrive in dugout canoes.

It's the last big weekend of the fall semester in Madison, and there is no shortage of entertainment options to keep hearts warm for the holidays.

A total of 74 Wisconsin teachers have newly achieved the designation of board-certified teachers, including a dozen in the south central part of the state.

Paula Buege, special-needs liaison at Glacier Creek Middle School in Cross Plains, says Kyle Dutter may have been the best thing that ever happened to seventh-grader Matt Manser.

A friendship cut short is being honored. A local middle school student is organizing a "ball drive" in memory of his friend, 12-year-old Kyle Dutter.

The Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison was the site of the wedding union between Kate Murphy and Mark Hull.

Thirty-five communities seeking to transform derelict industrial areas into thriving properties have applied for grants from a Department of Natural Resources program dedicated to contamination investigations ...

The Middleton-Cross Plains School District has "no more space" for its growing student population, and on Monday the School Board will consider four building options that could go to referendum in April.

Extra counselors were present Wednesday at Glacier Creek Middle School in Cross Plains to help students and staff cope with the death of Kyle Dutter.

Madison detectives are still trying to piece together what happened Tuesday when a father reportedly shot and killed his 12-year-old son and then turned the gun on himself in an SUV parked on Madison's far west ...

As he said he would during his initial appearance on murder charges last week, accused killer Charles E. Witzel Jr.

Dog lovers on Madison's east side are pushing for the first new off-leash dog exercise park in 15 years, and will gather Monday night to come up with ideas on where a park or parks could be located.

Craig Finley is being remembered as a quiet, sensitive person with a great sense of humor, who loved the outdoors and recently went back to school.

A rural Mineral Point man survived by playing dead after an attacker shot him and killed his brother.

An Iowa County criminal complaint said that Charles Witzel confessed to two shootings, which killed two people.

A high cash bail has been set for the man charged with killing a man and wounding a woman October 31 in Cross Plains.