Marathon County News

EDGAR - Badger Basket is a company well acquainted with hardship - so much so that the national recession has hardly registered.

Drivers better keep their eyes peeled during the next few weeks, when roughly one-quarter of all car-deer crashes this year will be reported.

Derek Chambers is not a religious man, but tearing out the old pews and carpeting from a 97-year-old church on the corner of Fourth Avenue and Thomas Street will be painful for him.

A registered sex offender who was sentenced to prison in 1992 will be released on parole Monday in Wausau.

An autopsy showed that a D.C. Everest Junior High student who died Sept. 21 during cross country practice suffered from a genetic connective tissue disorder, according to the Marathon County Medical Examiner's office.

At 7:50 a.m. a vehicle driven by a motorist ran into Parkside School Bus #49 at the corner of HiLine Drive and Oak Lane, south-west of Colby, according to Colby School District Superintendent J. Terry Downen.

A Wausau man was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison on multiple drunken driving charges.

County officials are continuing to investigate who dumped a large pile of roofing shingles in the parking lot of a Marathon County forest.

Join the Humane Society of Marathon County for a Howl-o-ween celebration from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov.

Voters in Marathon on Tuesday approved building a $550,000 public library by an overwhelming margin of 86 percent to 14 percent.

A Marshfield man was charged Monday with his sixth drunken driving offense hours after his Jeep Cherokee overturned in rural Marathon County.

A Marathon County judge ruled this afternoon that a Kronenwetter man accused of killing his wife and daughter in a drunken driving crash last month is allowed to drive after he installs an ignition interlock device on his vehicle.

Moderator Hugh Jones had not even finished reading a question about certificates of deposit when Wausau East High School senior Jamie Krueger hit her buzzer.

There's a full moon tonight . This has inspired WSAW in Wisconsin to phone up a local Professor and quiz him about the "lunar effect": A common superstition says accidents, natural disasters, and bizarre crimes increase during a full moon.

Victims of crime in Marathon County soon might get phone or e-mail alerts letting them know their perpetrators are being released from the county jail.

Marathon County is paying an overseas company millions of dollars to improve the effectiveness of its emergency-radio system, but some firefighters worry the new equipment is unreliable and could endanger lives.

The supply of vaccine is not coming as quickly as was anticipated. To date, 292,000 doses have been distributed throughout the state.

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Though it's still unclear when swine flu vaccinations will become available to most Marathon County residents, parents here already are deciding whether their kids will get them.

It was 91 years ago this month that the Spanish flu hit Wisconsin, infecting 3,000 of Wausau's 17,000 residents and killing as many 300 in Marathon County over the course of the winter.