As a small-business owner, volunteer firefighter, husband and parent of seven children, Kevin Schmidtke isn't easily intimidated.

As a single father of two, Don Guldan knew he had to move his family out of their 40-year-old mobile home, so he turned to Marshfield Area Habitat for Humanity.

Through a collaborative effort of the Cranberry Country Clergy, the state Department of Corrections and the Wood County Sheriff's Department, authorities are putting a program in place they hope will reduce the number of inmates who end up back in jail after they're released.

Local and state officials are banking on ignition interlock devices as one way to reduce the number of motorists who repeatedly drink and drive.

Eva Kor, 75, not only survived the horrors of the Holocaust concentration camp Auschwitz, but she also is a survivor of the medical experiments conducted by the notorious Dr. Josef Mengele.

A 24-year-old Colby man was arrested late last night after allegedly stabbing a 23-year-old Medford man during an argument, according to Colby-Abbotsford Police Chief Ron Gosse.

MADISON — The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Colleges and the UW-Extension is a finalist to become president of Morgan State University in Baltimore.

Despite receiving support from local school districts, the Wood County Health Department is putting the kibosh on bringing in school-based clinics for students to easily receive H1N1 swine flu immunizations.

Veterans Administration officials are alerting Vietnam War veterans that they've added three illnesses to those associated with the chemical weapon Agent Orange.