Vernon County men fined for illegal deer harvest

The Vernon County Circuit Court on Nov. 6 ordered two local men who led a 2018 illegal shining and shooting operation of deer to pay thousands of dollars in fines and banned them from hunting, fishing and trapping for 15 years nationwide. The decision marked the...

Money & Politics: What a $pectacular year it was!

By BILL LUEDERS Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism For Wisconsin residents, 2011 was the kind of year that helps explain why the Chinese consider “May you live in interesting times” to be a curse. Amid all of the hubbub and strife, many of us found...

Edgar Rodriguez Becerra

Edgar Rodriguez Becerra, 31, of Viola died Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, at Mayo Clinic Health System in Sparta. He was born Feb. 15, 1980, to his father, Adan Rodriguez Juarez, and his mother, Maria de los Angeles Becerra Sombrano. Edgar traveled to the United States for a...

Money & Politics: New study tracks independent spending

By BILL LUEDERS Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism In four critical Wisconsin state Senate races last year, groups making independent campaign expenditures actually spent more than the candidates themselves. That jaw-dropping finding is from a report...

Hunters register 112,581 deer during opening weekend

More than 600,000 hunters were outdoors Saturday morning, waiting for the opening moment of the 2011 gun-deer season, and by the end of the weekend, a preliminary call-in tally showed hunters registered 112,581 deer over the two-day period. According to a DNR press...

Wisconsin wetlands seen as threat to jobs

But environmentalists lament erosion of broad support for protection By BILL LUEDERS Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Call it Bud Harris’ theory of environmental relativity. The professor emeritus of natural and applied sciences at the University of...

Royall School District winter athletics schedule

Home games are in bold. VARSITY GIRLS BASKETBALL • 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 26 — Scrimmage at Richland Center • 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1 — Royall at Mauston • 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 5 — Royall at West Salem • 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9 — Royall at Hillsboro • 7:30 p.m....

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