West Bend News

A West Bend man was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison for the death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter, the same sentence the girl's mother received for the crime.

Laura Myrah, the director of curriculum and instruction for the Whitefish Bay School District , has been appointed to serve as the interim superintendent of the school district.

A Sauk County dairy farmer goes on trial today on a number of charges related to the sale of raw milk.

Effective July 1, current Curriculum and Instruction Director Laura Myrah will serve as interim superintendent, according to a district news release.

Winners of the 10th annual Wisconsin Visual Art Lifetime Achievement Awards -- essentially a state "hall of fame" for artists, art figures and organizations -- have been announced.

A hard-line Republican spoke out again Monday against a plan by his own party's governor to exempt rent-to-own stores from state consumer protection laws.

Organizers of a cross-country air race that is flown just before EAA AirVenture gets under way in Oshkosh, Wis., each summer announced a new race course-and a reconnection with the world's largest gathering of general aviation aircraft and pilots-for 2013.

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But there is still time for the Legislature to restore balance to the budget and the way government works in Wisconsin.

This is one Mother's Day a Cedarburg family will never forget. A woman in labor, leaving her husband in a mad dash to get her to the hospital.

Wisconsin communities would be stopped from creating their own laws against the sale of junk food and sugary drinks, under language added to the proposed state budget Thursday by the LegislatureA's Joint Finance Committee.

Organizers of a cross-country air race that is flown just before EAA AirVenture gets under way in Oshkosh, Wis., each summer announced a new race course - and a reconnection with the world's largest gathering of general aviation aircraft and pilots - for 2013.

Car deer collisions happen with some frequency in Wisconsin, but Police they've got a case where a driver struck a deer on purpose.

We all know the feeling. It's New Year's Eve, and there are seconds left on the clock for what has been a terrible, horrible, no-good very bad year.

A 28-year-old West Bend man killed a deer using his pickup truck while in Port Washington - and We Energies security camera footage proves it was all on purpose, police say.

A group from the Milwaukee area has organized a bicycle ride to Washington D.C. to attend a candlelight vigil honoring fallen law enforcement officers killed while on duty, including five from our area.

Republican lawmakers defended a new bill that would limit local judges' ability of striking down state laws at a public hearing Thursday, emphasizing that a local decision should not have statewide implications.

A 25-year-old West Bend woman was arrested for drunken driving when stopped for speeding 81 mph in a 55 mph zone in the 9100 block of Interstate 43 at 3 a.m. Sept.

Money in reserve funds at the University of Wisconsin System is projected to grow by another $150 million by the end of June, according to UW figures.

A new bill in the state Legislature would give a tax break to parents of students in Wisconsin private schools to help them pay for an alternative to public schools.