Tri-state native receives federal plaudits A Gratiot, Wis., native and former Cuba City, Wis., resident recently received a national award for his efforts to relocate a federal day-care center in Des Moines.

GRATIOT, Wis. -- Two men are dead and a woman emotionally shaken following a fight and a car accident on a rural Wisconsin road that one law enforcement official summed up as "bizarre." Avari D. Baker, 27, and Leonard L. Harris, 32, of Freeport, Ill., were killed late Wednesday on Wisconsin 78 when they were struck by a vehicle as they fought in ...

GRATIOT, Wis. - Two Freeport, Ill., men fighting on a roadway were killed when a vehicle struck them Wednesday night.