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RHINELANDER - Rubber gloves, a fingerprinting kit, and evidence bags all made it look like a serious crime happened in a room on the Nicolet College campus in Rhinelander on Thursday morning, but Kobe Gallion was pretty much just playing pretend.
"Yeah, it's fun," Gallion said of the investigative work. "It's like a big puzzle, really, that's all."
The Crandon High School senior worked with classmates to take blood samples and lift fingerprints at Nicolet's "Crime Scene Investigation" station while competing against another school.
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RHINELANDER - A class of second graders at Crescent Elementary School in Rhinelander turned a lesson plan into a life lesson. The students helped provide clean water to villages in Africa after learning about pollution.
"They couldn't believe kids their age didn't have access to a faucet with running water," said Prom.
"A lot of people walk a lot of hours to get their water," said eight- year- old Ava Sadak.
The class decided to take action. They raised money for three weeks during their lunch break.
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MARATHON COUNTY - Police found the body of a man in a Marathon City motel room closet Thursday afternoon.
A press release says police were called to The Village Inn on Main Street just before 12:30 p.m. The Village Inn is a restaurant/bar with a five room motel on the second floor.
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PRICE COUNTY - Price County blames 43 years of road salt for a high-traffic bridge starting to fall apart.
Corrosion has eaten away at the Highway H bridge over the Elk Lake Chain in Phillips, and work started Tuesday to replace an aging bridge deck.
Price County Highway Commissioner Don Grande often got calls about the condition of the bridge.
"I would say right now it's weekly," he estimated. "'Hey, when are you going to fix that bridge? What's going on with that bridge? Why does the bridge look so bad?'"
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RHINELANDER - A Minocqua man pleaded not guilty Thursday to a murder from 1982.
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MADISON - The state Department of Justice will prosecute a Taylor County sheriff's detective for releasing records of two unsolved murders to producers of a national television show.
Sergeant Steven Bowers is accused of felony misconduct in public office.
Under the law, police records are public, but authorities often withhold them on grounds they could compromise an ongoing investigation.
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EAGLE RIVER - People living in Eagle River could see a dog park sometime in the near future.
"It'll take some work to get it done, but I think in the long run, once it's done it'll be very good for the community and it'll be very well used," said Ron Kressin, who's leading the project.
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