Nelsonville News

Former Nelsonville resident Mildred Stanke celebrated her 91st birthday recently.

The prosecution of central Wisconsin man accused of killing his estranged girlfriend and two of their children in a gasoline-soaked home continues Monday.

The prosecution of a central Wisconsin man accused of killing his estranged girlfriend and two of their children in a gasoline-soaked home will continue Monday.

The Portage County 4-H Leaders held the 2009 Leader Recognition Banquet at the Elizabeth Inn and Convention Center, Plover, on Oct.

There are plenty of ways to get scared and spooked from now until Halloween. You can find family friendly events to downright terrifying ones all within the Stevens Point area.

It's a rare occasion when kids and teens are given permission to scare the daylights out of grownups.

The Stevens Point Area YMCA and Boys & Girls Club of Portage County are teaming up to provided a haunted house at the Rising Star Mill in Nelsonville.

Portage County, Stevens Point and Amherst Fire District leaders have reached a deal to provide emergency medical services to county residents during the next three years.

Volunteer organization: Stevens Point Area YMCA With school back in session and the leaves starting to turn, we are all beginning to look at what the next few months have in store for us.

Jenny and Tom McComb, along with Dave Story and Kevin Knopp, comprise the Tom McComb Quartet.

The man charged with 3 counts of first degree murder stood mute before a Portage county judge this morning.

Libraries to host music program 'Earth, Music, Magic,' a musical experience with Bill Kehl utilizing primitive instruments, will be July 16 for children ages 6 years and older.

A central Wisconsin man accused of killing his estranged girlfriend and two of their children will stand trial for murder.

Harold and Irene Alm of Amherst celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary with an open house at the Elizabeth Inn in Plover.

Fleeing officer: At about 1:26 a.m. Saturday near Highway HH, east of Burbank Road, town of Stockton, the Portage County Sheriff's Department was performing stationary radar.

The recent homicides in Nelsonville shook many of us to our core. Law enforcement officials described how they can never really be prepared for what they found.

The man charged with killing his girlfriend and their 2 children appears in Portage County court Tuesday.

A Portage County judge continued a $500,000 cash bond Tuesday and set a preliminary hearing date for the man charged in the death of a mother and her two children April 30 in Nelsonville.

Prosecutors have charged a central Wisconsin man with three counts of first-degree intentional homicide in the deaths of his estranged girlfriend and their two children.

A man accused of killing his estranged girlfriend and two of their children had sealed himself and an infant daughter inside his gasoline-soaked home before deputies arrived, a prosecutor said Monday.