Osceola News

Nov. 16, 2009 3:10 p.m. A voluntary initiative that began four years ago to collect data from Wisconsin's insurers, hospitals, major employers and others announced Monday it has launched a database of information taken from millions of claims that can be used to analyze health system performance.

During a recession, it seems every single business has to cut back in some way. Many choose layoffs.

In nearly five months of driving highways and byways across the country, "Going Out of Business" signs have seemed a standard element of the modern American landscape.

Robert E. Fugleberg, age 83, of Oshkosh, passed away peacefully on Saturday, October 24, 2009 at Evergreen Retirement Community.

Green Bay firefighters practiced extinguishing a car fire Thursday using one of two new fire engines that recently went into service.

Writes MAR: "Yesterday I was reading an article on the MSNBC Web site about how there are now specialized police dogs trained to sniff out cell phones in prisons.

Police in Rochester say they're trying to determine whether a Northfield man should face criminal charges after flight attendants said he was unruly and removed him from a U.S. Airways flight that had stopped in Rochester.

A quarrel over alleged damage to a car has led to felony charges against an Osceola, Wis., man accused of criminal sexual conduct with a 14-year-old girl.

A little girl who was critically hurt in a crash that killed her grandfather, is doing better.

One of our distributors, TCR Integrated Stamping Systems , recently designed and installed a system for Polaris Industries in Osceola, WI.

MADISON, Wis.-- A federal judge yesterday sentenced Miracle Met pitcher Jerry Koosman to six months in prison for not paying his taxes.

A 34-year-old Somerset resident and Osceola area business manager was arrested Tuesday in connection with a series of lawn and farm equipment thefts that spanned throughout western Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota.

As hunger for Community Supported Agriculture grows in the Twin Cities, the small-farm community in western Wisconsin is reaping the rewards.

The State Court of Appeals has thrown out a St. Croix County judge's award of $1.4-million to 10 female employees of Polaris, in Osceola.

Sept. 1, 2009 6:24 p.m. Wausau a ' A judge erred in awarding $1.4 million to 10 western Wisconsin women who had their work pictures taken, defiled and placed on Internet pornography sites by a security officer who worked at the same plant as them, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

An appeals court has reversed $1.4 million in damages awarded to 10 western Wisconsin women whose work pictures were defiled and placed on Internet pornography sites by a security employee.

A former all-star pitcher is set to be sentenced for tax evasion this week in Madison.

OSCEOLA, WI, August 26, 2009 /Cambridge Who's Who/ -- Linda K. McKusick, Photographer and Owner of Enjoying Life and Nature, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in business management.

The Hennepin County Medical Examiner on Thursday officially identified the victims killed in a plane crash Wednesday in Eden Prairie.

The pilot of a plane that crashed Wednesday in Eden Prairie, killing both people aboard, reported nothing unusual in his last radio transmission to the Flying Cloud Airport control tower moments before the crash, a federal official said this morning.