Ladysmith News

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The Ladysmith Police and Fire Commission voted 5-0 last Wednesday to make no changes to the current structure of the city's police department.

SFC Shane Sanderson, the Army reservist from Ladysmith who was wounded Nov. 9 as the result of a mortar attack in Afghanistan, is now at Fort Campbell, Ky., where he is beginning his rehabilitation, his wife, Michelle, reported on Monday.

A sentencing date will now be set for a Ladysmith man accused of sexually assaulting three teenaged girls in separate incidents on 3 separate days.

A home at the intersection of E. 7th Street N. and Park Avenue E. in the City of Ladysmith was destroyed by fire early in the morning on Wednesday, Nov.

The Ladysmith Common Council voted 6-0 Monday to extend an offer with the potential of preventing the closure of the Rusk County Nursing Home.

A Ladysmith Army soldier wounded by a mortar round in Afghanistan on Sunday was reportedly in 'very serious but stable condition' on Tuesday.

We now know more about the bank robbery that ended in a deadly chase and gunfight last week.

The name of the bank robbery suspect that was shot and killed has been released.

Congressman Dave Obey visited Ladysmith Saturday to receive a briefing on how $1.26 million in federal Economic Development Administration grant money will be used to help expand the Meadowbrook Industrial Center and the Fritz Avenue Manufacturing Plant.

Wisconsin State Senator Russ Decker was on hand at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College's Ladysmith branch campus on Monday to mark the awarding of a $25,000 grant for job retraining programs in Rusk County.

The Flambeau School District and Our Lady of Sorrows school have sent letters home with students to provide information about preventing the flu.

An area community is being ordered to boil tap water before using it. The Department of Natural Resources says it took the water tower and well in Exeland, northwest of Ladysmith, offline yesterday.

WHEN IT'S TIME TO CHANGE - A pontoon boat meanders across the surface of the Flambeau River Monday afternoon in the City of Ladysmith.

Thomas Edward Williams, a longtime resident of Wausau, died of natural causes at his home Aug.

A Wisconsin man convicted of sexually assaulting teenage boys is set to be released in October.

A man deemed "sexually violent" and committed to a mental institution by the court in 2001 will be released to a home in Ladysmith.

LADYSMITH, Wis. - A St. Cloud man was killed Sunday evening in Wisconsin when he was hit by a pickup.

Ladysmith is a unique town in many ways, but not when it comes to its name. Open any good atlas with maps of North America, Australia and South Africa and you can find several places that share the title.

A motorcycle rider who stopped along U.S. 8 just west of Beebe Road near Bruce was killed Sunday evening after being struck by a pick-up truck, a witness at the scene said.