http://www.scanwisconsin.com ScanWisconsin en-us hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:38:01 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=300 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=300 LAKE DELTON, Wis. -- All sorts of things are turning up in Lake Delton\'s muck now that it\'s empty.<br><br>People have been looking for valuables in the man-made lake created in the 1920s. It emptied into the Wisconsin River when flooding ruptured a dike wall.<br><br>So far, four guns and two bones have been found.<br><br>... Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:24:09 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=299 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=299 WAUWATOSA, Wis. — Wauwatosa police say a man helped by a 75-year-old woman repaid her by stealing her sport utility vehicle. Police say the woman found the man sleeping in a chair on her porch over the weekend.<br><br>WauwatosaNOW.com reports the woman told police she felt sorry for the man. She says he seemed in a ‘‘daze'' and wasn't wearing shoes. She says she asked him to come inside while she found a sweat shirt for him.<br><br>Police say he stayed inside while she found a sweat shirt, which he... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:21:39 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=298 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=298 MADISON, Wis. — Last week's floods claimed a second life as cleanup operations continued and far southern Wisconsin braced for more flooding along the Rock River.<br><br>A 43-year-old Friendship man riding a motorcycle Sunday in Lemonweir Township drove around signs warning the road ahead was closed. Gregory A. Hachtel hit a washout and lost control, authorities in Juneau County said Monday.<br><br>Hachtel was pronounced dead at the scene. His passenger, Sandra R. Marcelle, 45, of Reedsburg, was taken... Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:02:45 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=297 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=297 GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Green Bay Packers running back Noah Herron thwarted a would-be burglar by hitting him with a bed post during a break-in at his home, the Brown County sheriff said Tuesday.<br><br>The incident late last Friday injured the intruder, who remains hospitalized, Sheriff Dennis Kocken said.<br><br>\'\'Noah Herron used necessary, reasonable and justifiable force in protecting his life and property,\'\' Kocken said in a statement.<br><br>... Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:23:45 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=296 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=296 LA CROSSE, Wis. — A recliner found along an Iowa highway by a La Crosse truck driver was more than abandoned debris.<br><br>It was pain relief for a disabled Operation Desert Storm veteran. And, it's back with its rightful owner, thanks to the trucker.<br><br>Raymond Lee found the boxed chair last week along Highway 9 near Grafton, Iowa. The recliner fell off the back of a pickup truck while Jim Erickson's wife was taking it to St. Ansgar, Iowa.<br><br>... Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:23:18 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=295 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=295 WAUSAU, Wis. — Wausau police have arrested a Beloit man after he fled while giving a 5-year-old child a motorcycle ride.<br><br>Wausau police say 30-year-old Lamont Steel could face a number of charges including operating a vehicle while intoxicated. It will be up to the district attorney to file formal charges.<br><br>Police say officers spotted Steel giving the child a ride on a non-licensed miniature motorcycle on Sunday evening. Neither was wearing a helmet.<br><br>... Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:26:47 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=294 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=294 KENOSHA, Wis. — Someone in Texas apparently had a guilty conscience, paying up on a parking ticket handed out 21 years before.<br><br>The Kenosha Police Department says officers found a $6 payment for the ticket, issued Jan. 20, 1987, in a drop box.<br><br>A notice on the ticket indicated that failure to pay within 120 hours would result in doubling of the $3 forfeiture.<br><br>... Wed, 28 May 2008 15:14:54 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=293 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=293 OSHKOSH, Wis. — A 41-year-old woman accused of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy was charged Tuesday with three felony counts of sexual assault of a child.<br><br>Authorities discovered the relationship after Teresa M. Cantrall of Oshkosh let the boy drive a car and he was pulled over for speeding, police said.<br><br>A Wisconsin State Patrol trooper stopped a vehicle May 11 that was traveling about 80 mph on a Neenah highway. Cantrall told the trooper she was the boy's mother and was ... Sun, 25 May 2008 21:45:04 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=292 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=292 HAMMEL, Wis. — A 42-year-old woman is dead after a deer ricocheted off another vehicle and hit her windshield in northcentral Wisconsin.<br><br>In a news release, the Taylor County sheriff's department reports that a southbound vehicle struck a deer on County Highway E near Perkinstown Avenue in the Town of Hammel.<br><br>The deer then flew in the air and struck a northbound vehicle driven by Kathryn Gebert, of Medford, around 8:35 Saturday night.<br><br>... Fri, 23 May 2008 21:10:47 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=291 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=291 SILVER LAKE, Wis. -- A semitrailer truck collided with a school bus carrying middle schoolers on a highway in southeastern Wisconsin Friday, seriously injuring several children on the bus.<br><br>Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth said there were about a dozen children on the bus and three or four had injuries he described as serious but not life-threatening. The others had minor injuries, mostly \'\'bumps and bruises,\'\' he said.<br><br>\'\'They all appeared to be shaken up,\'\' he added.<br><br>... Tue, 20 May 2008 17:02:32 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=290 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=290 LA CROSSE, Wis. — The case of the missing anchor has been solved.<br><br>A large decorative anchor had been reported stolen Monday from in front of the Naval Reserve Center in La Crosse. Police described it as 6-feet long and weighing 2,000 pounds.<br><br>On Tuesday, U.S. Navy Commander Kurt Hedberg said there was no mystery. He says the Navy put the anchor in storage last year after the center closed.<br><br>... Mon, 19 May 2008 14:52:39 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=289 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=289 LA CROSSE, Wis. — Thieves took off with a 6-foot-tall, 2,000 pound anchor, and no one noticed. For four months.<br><br>La Crosse police are searching for whoever took the gray-blue anchor that was mounted outside the Naval Reservist Station.<br><br>Police say Naval Reservist Oversight Committee chairman Tom Sweeney reported the anchor missing Saturday. The committee owns the anchor. Sweeney says it must have been stolen sometime between Dec. 31 and Thursday.<br><br>... Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:27:32 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=288 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=288 Fire crews were on the scene of a fire on Milwaukee\'s north side at what was believe to be an auto salvage yard.<br><br>Firefighters were called to the scene just after 4:00 a.m. Monday.<br><br>Scanner reports indicated at least two cars in the lot were on fire.<br><br>... Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:26:41 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=287 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=287 SHEBOYGAN -- A 46-year-old Sheboygan man was arrested on tentative charges of drunken driving and hit-and-run after an off-duty Sheboygan police officer saw him strike another car and drive off outside the police station about 8 p.m. Thursday, police said.<br><br>The man, who is expected to be charged with third-offense drunken driving, struck a car on North Ninth Street near Center Avenue as the officer left at the end of his shift, said Sgt. Dave Anderson. The man was driving a 1995 Chevrolet... Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:04:32 -0400 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=286 http://www.ScanWisconsin.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=286 He was found not guilty of a double murder in West Allis, but now, he\'s charged with a new crime and there are allegations he threatened to kill someone.<br><br>After Lee Parker was found not guilty in a double murder he was a free man, but now, he\'s back in jail.<br><br>Parker was acquitted in the murders of his ex-girlfriend, 16-year-old Amber Lewis and her new boyfriend Theo Lloyd earlier this year.<br><br>...