Ladysmith News

A Rusk County man will spend a year in jail. Ben Tipsin was sentenced this week.2-girls, ages 15 and 16, told police the 18-year old Ladysmith man forced them to perform sex acts with him.

Bruce and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources firefighters battled a grass fire, Ladysmith firefighters fought a car fire and Sheldon firefighters responded to a barn fire.

By Luke Klink The Ladysmith Community Development Committee is seeking assistance with completing planned landscaping at the Lake Avenue Public Green and Gateway near downtown.

On Sunday, June 21, the people of St. John Lutheran celebrated the arrival of their new senior pastor, the Rev.

The Free Beer Quartet hadn't sung together in 25 years, but they recently reunited for a tryout on a nationally-televised show.

The daughter of an elderly woman who was killed last month says she used to teach a suspect in the case.

Rusk County District Attorney Kathleen Pakes, who gained convictions last year in two cold murder cases, was honored last week by colleagues as state prosecutor of the year.

Faced with a laundry list of uncertainties locally and a state budget full of unanswered questions on school funding, the Ladysmith-Hawkins School Board is developing several scenarios as it budgets for the 2009-10 school year.

The Ladysmith Community Development Committee voted, 3-0, Monday to recommend hiring Short Elliott Hendrickson to design a new comprehensive bike and pedestrian plan for the city.

Jun. 18, 2009 9:20 p.m. An environmental group said Thursday that it intends to file a lawsuit over pollution at the closed Flambeau mine near Ladysmith, unless the owner of the mine and the state Department of Natural Resources address the problems in the next 30 days.

Residents of the Hawkins area had their day at the detachment hearing, and now the Ladysmith-Hawkins School Board will have its day in court.

Joel Effertz, a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher from Ladysmith High School, was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers Thursday in the 37th round of the Major League Baseball draft.

MADISON -- Jake Nelson of Ladysmith had something Iola-Scandinavia's Michael Mortenson wanted really bad.

The Major League Baseball first-year player draft doesn't receive the same attention as those in other sports, but that doesn't make it any less important to those involved.

To Ed Tomasovich, the invention of the plow was nothing short of groundbreaking.

Veterans organizations in Rusk County have scheduled Memorial Day observances in their communities.--- Weyerhaeuser ceremonies will be Sunday and the others will be on Monday.

Both the Rusk County sheriff and the Ladysmith police chief are dealing with a spike in total drug cases and both say prescription drug cases are climbing the fastest.

A car crashes into a semi, sending the driver of the car to the hospital. It happened on Highway 27 near Ladysmith Thursday afternoon.

Elementary and high school students in Ladysmith scored higher than their peers across the state in almost every subject on mandatory statewide tests given last fall.

Did former Ladysmith Police Officer Troy Guthman receive special or preferential treatment in his alleged involvement in sending sexual text messages to a 16-year-old girl? In any other case a special agent or another officer would have set up an account on the victim's cell phone and tried to lure the officer to become involved in a meeting with ...