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RHINELANDER - Snow on the ground can’t keep the Easter bunny away in the Northwoods.
Hundreds of kids and their families searched for Easter eggs in Rhinelander on Saturday.
“Even with the snow and the slush, they love running around and getting out there and getting the eggs,”said Nicole Polkowski, the Rhinelander Area Optimist Club president.
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STOUGHTON - Police in Stoughton are investigating a threatening letter that was sent to a black teenager, with a photo that depicted him as the victim of a lynching.
The letter had a Madison postmark but no return address. The family told the newspaper it contained a photo showing two men hanging from a tree, with a mob watching. A picture of the 18-year-old was superimposed onto one of the men.
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MINOCQUA - Easter weekend normally brings in a lot of tourist.
For business owners, that means an increase in sales.
The Pine Cone Boutique in Minocqua says they've seen an increase in customers.
They're right off Highway 51 North, right next to McDonald's.
One of the sales associates just started working there.
But she could tell that business picked up quickly.
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OSHKOSH - A Winnebago County woman has been arrested after authorities found nearly two dozen animals living in deplorable conditions in the Town of Clayton.
WGBA-TV reports that since Thursday, authorities have rescued 17 horses and five dogs from the home. Winnebago sheriff's detective Chris Braman says they did not look healthy.
Another three horses were found dead.
Cattle Rescue Inc. will be caring for the surviving horses. Director Bill Blemke says they are malnourished.
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EDGAR - Some county highway workers now have an even more valid reason to want winter to end.
A fire at a Marathon County highway garage near Edgar made eight heavy machines, including snowplows, unusable.
A driver saw the fire just before 3 o'clock Friday morning.
There is more than $2 million in damage.
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EAGLE RIVER - The snow on the ground makes it seem more like January than mid-April.
The record-breaking snow will make it more difficult for lakes to melt in time for the fishing opener on May 3rd.
Fishing guides have just two weeks until opening weekend.
They say they're having flashbacks to last year's late season ice, but they're not worried.
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MADISON - A federal appeals court has upheld Republican Gov. Scott Walker's public union restrictions.
The restrictions stripped most public workers of nearly all their collective bargaining rights. Two unions representing city of Madison and Dane County public workers filed a lawsuit in 2011 alleging the law violated their right to freely assembly and equal protection.
U.S. District Judge William Conley found the restrictions constitutional in September. A three-judge appeals panel affirmed Conley's ruling Friday, saying the U.S. Constitution doesn't require the state to maintain policies that allow certain associations to thrive.
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen calls the ruling ``a victory for the law and for Wisconsin taxpayers.''
An attorney for the unions tells the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he needs to talk to his clients before deciding whether to appeal.
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