1912 – 2014 AUBURN — Marguerite Coombs, 101, mother of Karin Turner, passed away Monday, June 30. Marguerite was born July 8, 1912, in Chicago, Ill., moving to Hayward, Wis., as a child. She and her husband, Donald, moved to Poland in the late 1970s to be with her daughter and son-in-law to help build […]
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Man sentenced to 10 years in Rumford woman’s death
RUMFORD — A Wisconsin man was sentenced to 10 years in prison last week for causing the death of a Rumford woman in a car crash in Wisconsin in 2011. In a report published Jan. 24 by the Wheeler News Service in Wisconsin, judge William Johnston sentenced Kyle Monahan, 24, of Shullsburg, Wis., to 10 […]
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Cyclist: Driver didn’t see me stuck in windshield
MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who became lodged in the windshield of a car that struck him said he turned to the driver and said, “Hello, I’m the guy you hit on the bicycle.” The driver did not respond, but continued on, running a stop sign and hitting another vehicle before he arrived […]
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Wisconsin man convicted of drunken-driving homicide that killed Rumford woman in 2011
DARLINGTON, Wis. — A Shullsburg, Wis., man was convicted of three felonies in Lafayette County Circuit Court on Tuesday in Darlington for a 2011 crash that killed a 21-year-old Rumford woman. In a report published Thursday in the Wisconsin State Journal, a jury found Kyle Monahan, 24, guilty of homicide by intoxicated use of a […]
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Injunction extended on Wisconsin abortion law
A federal judge extended a preliminary injunction Friday blocking a Wisconsin law that would require abortion doctors to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinics and a mandatory ultrasound before a woman receives an abortion. U.S. District Judge William Conley issued a temporary restraining order July 8. The new injunction […]