West Bend News

Roland C. Thomas, age 90, of West Bend, passed away Sunday, November 22, 2009 at his home.

Bail was set at $750,000 Tuesday for a Grafton man accused of using a necktie to strangle his 14-year-old stepson, Cody Reetz, Sunday night as payback to the boy's mother for telling police that the man had beat her the week before with a hammer.

Family, friends and classmates will say their final goodbyes to 14 year old Cody Reetz on Friday.

The Fond du Lac County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved the appointment of Mark Radmer as administrator of the county's skilled health care facilities: Fond du Lac County Health Care Center and Harbor Haven Nursing Home, both at 459 E. First St.

The family of a 14-year-old boy who was killed by his stepfather in a shocking case of revenge has set up a memorial fund to help pay for funeral and burial expenses.

WEST BEND, Wis. - A Wisconsin man has been charged with strangling his teenage stepson and leaving the body in a minivan in a Walmart parking lot.

The Fond du Lac Area Homeschool Drama Troupe will present 'The Best Christmas Pageant Ever' at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov.

A Minnesota residential development firm is proposing a $7 million multifamily affordable housing project that will add 36 units to downtown West Bend.

Nov. 13, 2009 11:32 a.m. A 15-year-old girl from West Bend died after the car in which she was riding collided with a minivan Thursday at an intersection in the Town of Jackson, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Department.

Nov. 13, 2009 1:52 p.m. The Museum of Wisconsin Art has identified a riverfront site for its new $12 million museum in West Bend, museum officials announced today.

A 15-year-old West Bend girl died in a two vehicle crash Thursday evening on Highway 60 at Highway G in the Town of Jackson.

A judge has sentenced two Wisconsin women to community service for throwing a road sign off a freeway bridge in St.

West Bend a ' The Washington County Board Thursday agreed to add $65,000 to the county Historical Society's budget next year, increasing county spending to $118.45 million in 2010.

Student test data can be used to evaluate teacher performance but not to discipline or dismiss teachers, under a bill passed by the Senate Thursday as part of a package of education-related initiatives.

Schools that decide to teach sex education would have to instruct students on the use of birth control under a bill up for debate Tuesday in the state Assembly.

The Dodge County Sheriff's Department has released its top five 'Most Wanted' for November.

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Ironically, on Oct. 15 as legislators were preparing to introduce two bills aimed at domestic violence homicide prevention, a homicide occurred in West Bend.

People looking to protect themselves from the seasonal flu by getting vaccine are finding the supply is quickly shrinking.

More than 1,600 swine flu vaccines were given out at a health clinic in West Bend on Wednesday.

The West Bend woman whose empty car was found partially submerged in the Milwaukee River in Washington County has been found dead days after she disappeared.