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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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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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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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TOMAHAWK - A man in a wheelchair couldn't make it out of a burning Tomahawk home Thursday.
The fire killed 70-year-old Kenneth Pietila.
A snow plow driver saw smoke coming out of the windows of the home on East Pine Shore Lane just after 1 p.m.
Tomahawk firefighters found an active fire spreading throughout the home.
Pietila, in his wheelchair, couldn't be saved.
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EDGAR - Fire did $1.5 million dollars in damage at a Marathon County Highway Department garage overnight.
Someone driving by shortly before three this morning saw smoke coming from the building along State Highway 97 near Edgar.
One of the garages was on fire at the Marathon County Highway Department's location in the town of Wien.
Firefighters from Edgar and Stratford rushed to the scene.
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ACROSS WISCONSIN - A new survey released by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction shows fewer high school students are smoking, drinking and having sex.
The 2013 Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey is taken every two years. It anonymously surveys more than 2800 students from more than 50 public school districts around Wisconsin.
The survey shows 12 percent of high school students had smoked a cigarette on one or more days in the past 30 days of the survey. That’s down from 32 percent in 1993.
Katie Kennedy, Options Counseling Services Clinician, works with teenagers that suffer from alcohol and other drug addictions. She believes intervention programs have helped lead to declines.
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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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