Sparta News

During the week of Nov. 15 to 21 -- American Education Week -- the Stevens Point Area Retired Teachers' Association honors all the educational support staff in the Stevens Point area.

A crash in Sparta sent a semi truck onto a football field and school track. It happened on Tuesday just after 4:30 p.m. on Rusk Avenue at Franklin Street in Sparta.

Police say a convicted sex offender will be released in late November. Sparta police say 45-year-old Terry J. Peissig will start living on Water Street on Tuesday, November 24th.

Nov. 4, 2009 12:42 p.m. The Monroe County Board chairman was ousted in a recall election Tuesday, bringing to eight the number of supervisors recalled by a taxpayers group upset over a proposed $27 million justice center.

Alison Baerwald married Shawn Amundson on Aug. 29, 2009, in LaCrosse, Wis., before 160 guests.

The Stevens Point Area Retired Teachers' Association met Oct. 12 at The Sky Club, with 40 members present.

Monroe County voters have voted to recall seven of eight Monroe County Board members in a special election Tuesday.

Eight Monroe County board members are facing challengers in a recall election. The members facing recall are from District 5, District 12, District 20, District 10, District 16, District 21, District 11 and District 18.

Two teens are injured in a one car accident Sunday morning in the Township of Little Falls.

Dennis Clinard, standing in front of the 1895 courthouse, is the leader of a group that pushed through a recall vote for nine country supervisors who approved spending $27 million for a new justice center.

Firefighters battling a house fire Monday in Sparta had to dodge errant vehicles, including one piloted by a suspected drunken driver apparently in a hurry for a late-night snack, authorities said.

Firefighters battling a house fire Monday in Sparta had to dodge errant vehicles, including one piloted by a suspected drunken driver apparently in a hurry for a late-night snack, authorities said.

Two seperate incidents at the scene of a Sparta house fire Monday night lead to a drunk driving arrest and a damaged police car.

A Wisconsin soldier's injury in an enemy attack in Afghanistan is about to provide a painfully heroic image for the cover of Time Magazine.

On Sept. 21, Stevens Point Area Retired Teachers' Association, or SPARTA, met at The Sky Club, with 47 members present.

A male truck driver was electrocuted Friday afternoon after the boom on his truck hit a power line.

Back in the '50s, a little boy named Tom would wait in his backyard every day at 3 p.m. sharp.

Investigators are still trying to determine what caused a fire that destroyed a home in Sparta this morning.

A 52-year-old Sparta man is burned when the machinery he was operating hit overhead power lines.

Two people were pulled from their vehicle using the Jaws of Life Friday night. The Monroe County Sheriffs Department says they responded to a two car crash on State Highway 21 in the Town of Angelo just after 7:30 Friday night.