Kenosha County News

Feb. 9, 2010 9:48 a.m. An Illinois man was drunk Monday when he jumped in an ambulance and drove around a parking lot at a Dane County ski area while a patient was being treated in the back of the ambulance, according to the county Sheriff's Office.

Police in Kenosha County say no one was injured after about 24 Union Pacific freight cars derailed.

Taliyah Harris, 8, walked across the small stage and stopped to pull a step stool behind the podium before ascending to speak at Sunday's African-American Read-In. In a loud, clear voice she read poet Langston Hughes' "Mother to Son," in which he writes of a mother speaking to her son about life experiences.

A Kenosha County Board panel voted Tuesday to continue the use of secure juvenile detention as a tool for judges and social workers to deal with delinquents.

A fire at the power plant in Pleasant Prairie in Kenosha County was knocked down by a fire suppression system.

The federal government has rejected Kenosha County's $5 million application for money to expand local broadband Internet service.

The iPad and other future technology should be easier to use with expansion of broadband Internet service in Kenosha County.

The last History Mystery question: What former member of the Confederate Army is buried in Kenosha's Green Ridge Cemetery? The answer: His name was William C. McDoniel, and he is the only Confederate soldier buried in Kenosha with full military honors.

A Kenosha man must serve one year in jail for killing a dog while driving drunk.

A doctor could not determine competence after an out-patient visit with a Kenosha man accused, along with his mother, of chaining a mentally disabled relative inside their home.

A Kenosha grandmother is sentenced to 15 years in prison for severely abusing her young grandson who's no longer able to eat or walk.

Another baby has dies as a result of co-sleeping. This time it happened in Kenosha.

Unemployment has gotten worse in almost every Wisconsin county. The state Department of Workforce Development said Wednesday unemployment in December stayed the same in Menominee County from November.

A 6-month-old baby died after sleeping in the same bed with his father, authorities said.

A 6-month-old baby has died after sleeping in the same bed as his father in Kenosha.

A hearing will be held next week to decide if there is enough evidence to continue the case against a Kenosha mother accused, along with her son, of chaining a mentally disabled relative inside their home.

A jury trial will go on as scheduled next week for a Powers Lake man charged in a fatal crash.

The apparent suffocation death of a 6-week-old Paddock Lake boy continued to be investigated by Kenosha County Sheriff's detectives Monday.

A former Kenosha bar owner could avoid a conviction for soliciting murder, if she pleads to other charges.

Bristol officials hope a referendum on incorporation of the town will coincide with the general spring elections.