On June 25, 2011, a 29-year-old Eau Claire father died in a tubing accident near Holcombe Dam. The victim was riding in a commercially-made tube pulled by a boat, when the tube hit one of the concrete pillars located under County M. At the time, the boat was occupied...
Cases involving dog bites are often complicated, especially when the dog is roaming loose in public or when the owner cannot be identified. The Menasha police are asking for the public's help in identifying a dog that bit a woman and whose owner has not yet been...
A five-car crash that left at least one person injured was due to drunk driving, according to Wauwatosa police. The car accident occurred on Mayfair Road when a 45-year-old man from Milwaukee was allegedly speeding with a blood alcohol content of 0.15, nearly twice...
A Gratiot Township truck accident on State Highway 78 led to serious injury when a 60-year-old woman was hit by a 48-year-old man who ran a stop sign. The Freightliner truck driver failed to stop at a traffic sign on South Prairie Road and pulled into Highway 78 where...
On Thanksgiving, a Port Washington man was attacked and received multiple animal bites by a neighbor's dog. He was in the process of carrying bags out his car when the dog escaped its leash and began biting him. Although the man kicked the dog in self-defense, he...
Two car crashes in two days in Anoka resulted in death for one Wisconsin victim. The second accident occurred when the Wisconsin resident attempted to make a U-turn in the middle of the road. She drove directly into the path of an SUV driven by a teenage girl,...
People who suffered severe brain injuries in auto accidents, falls, sports injuries and other trauma were disappointed by the news a few days back that a possible treatment doesn't do what experts had hoped. The military had high hopes for citicoline, a...
There are many people who are afraid of pit bulls. The dogs have a reputation for biting, and biting hard, sometimes fatally. So it comes as no surprise that a bystander who saw three pit bulls run up to a jogger in Tampa, Florida recently felt the need to protect the...
A Wisconsin man convicted of causing a fatal accident is looking at 10 years in prison, possibly the toughest sentence ever handed out for texting while driving. The 23 year-old was convicted 2nd degree reckless homicide for causing a December, 2012 crash that killed...
One of the things that children learn in middle school science is the physics of moving objects. They learn that objects at rest tend to stay at rest, and objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Those same laws pertain to cars. If the vehicle you're riding in stops...
