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MOLE LAKE - A new Northwoods transit system is getting people where they need to go and giving a boost to the local economy.
The SCC Transit System is part of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's Supplemental Transportation Rural Assistance Program, or STRAP.
The system, which began in October, takes people from Mole Lake to stops in Crandon and Rhinelander, then back again for three dollars a ride.
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TENNESSEE - If the mayor of Green Bay gets his way, the old wooden roller coaster Elvis Presley loved to ride will be rolling north.
Mayor Jim Schmitt and Green Bay's parks director Bill Landvatter were in Memphis Monday, looking over the Zippin Pippin, which is being dismantled.
A Tennessee newspaper says Schmitt won't tell the asking price, but says most of what he anticipates his city paying would be to move the coaster to Bay Beach Amusement Park.
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TOWN OF PLEASANT PRAIRIE - Police in Kenosha County say no one was hurt after about 24 Union Pacific freight cars derailed.
The incident happened just after 12:30 Monday afternoon in the Town of Pleasant Prairie.
Union Pacific spokesman Mark Davis says 20 of the cars were empty, two were carrying wheat, one was carrying plywood and one was carrying potting soil.
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- Governor Jim Doyle took Wisconsin's Great Lakes concerns to the top dogs in Washington .
The Governor participated in an Asian Carp summit with President Obama's Chief Science Advisor, alongside the governors of Illinois and Michigan.
In a phone conference Governor Doyle said the Obama Administration will pledge between 75 and 80 million dollars in research and resources to stop the destructive carp from spreading into the Great Lakes.
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RHINELANDER - Qualifying Wisconsin veterans are getting a break from the Badger State through a property tax credit.
Prior to the 2009 tax year, veterans who were 100 percent disabled under individual unemployability were not eligible for this property tax benefit.
They also had to be at least 65 years old, and have joined the military from Wisconsin. But this year is different.
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MADISON - A state lawmaker's rhetoric about the volume of complaints he's received from innocent people whose lives have been hurt by an online court database doesn't match reality.
Democratic Rep. Marlin Schneider of Wisconsin Rapids is a longtime critic of the database that provides information free to the public about court cases filed in Wisconsin.
But he admitted to The Associated Press that he was overstating his case when he said he has received hundreds of complaints.
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ANIWA - The Shawano County Sheriff's Department says the fire happened around 7:30pm Saturday evening.
The department got a 911 call and when they got to the Town of Aniwa home it was fully engulfed in flames.
Homeowners Brian and Donna Wakefield were not home at the time of the fire.
The home has significant fire, water and smoke damage.
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