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MINOCQUA - Runners hit the pavement in Minocqua on Saturday to raise money for the Lakeland Food Pantry. All of the money from the Bear Cupboard Run will help the pantry buy more food.
People from across the U.S. ran the 5K. The run usually raises from $18,000 to $20,000 for the pantry. Every dollar that is raised can feed a lot of people.
MINOCQUA - The Minocqua Gun Club wants more women to learn how to handle a gun safely. The club held a training event on Saturday to teach women safety basics. A lot of the women who came to the class had never fired a gun before.
The gun club wanted to teach the class because they think there are a lot of women who are curious about guns.
TOWN OF WOODBORO - Police believe reckless driving and alcohol may have played a role in a motorcycle crash on Highway 8.
The single motorcycle accident happened around 5:30 p.m. near Birch Bay Road in the town of Woodboro. The driver of the motorcycle was flown by Spirit Air to St. Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield.
BIRNAMWOOD - A couple in Birnamwood donated half $1 million for a new community center and a bell tower two year ago. Saturday, their community thanked them for their donation.
The Matsche Community Center was completed in 2012. The bell tower was completed this year.
MADISON - Four men have been cited for allegedly shooting paintball guns that looked like real assault rifles at a vehicle in Madison.
Police say they received a report Friday afternoon that two men were using assault rifles to shoot at a vehicle in front of them.
TOWN OF STETTIN - UPDATE: 5:00 p.m.
A Lincoln County woman died after a horrific accident on a farm Friday. Saturday, the Marathon County Sheriff's office released her name.
Police say 77-year-old Faye Reinhardt of Lincoln County died while loading a tractor onto a trailer.
EAGLE RIVER - Making a quilt can take a long time. The Cranberry Country Quilters in Eagle River believe the final product needs to be showed off.
They held a show today to display all of their members' quilts. Members of the quilters guild want more people to appreciate quilts as art.
EAGLE RIVER - You don't always find friendship bracelets and beaded key chains at an art festival. But at Artarama, kids got the chance to sell their artwork.
"We promote the kids to bring the stuff they make and sell it, learn how to be a vendor at an art show," said Artarama committee member Barbara Zyhowski.
MADISON - A Wisconsin-based group representing atheists and agnostics has agreed to drop a federal lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over tax-exempt churches and religious organizations that get involved in political campaigns.
The Freedom from Religion Foundation and the IRS submitted a motion in federal court on Thursday asking the judge to dismiss the case filed in 2012.
RACINE - A Racine man will spend 45 days in jail for making a bomb threat at work because he wanted Halloween off.
Twenty-eight-year-old Jacob Vanderhoef was sentenced Friday to 90 days in jail. Judge Tim Boyle stayed half that time, meaning Vanderhoef will spend 45 days jailed.
MERRILL - Drivers will soon have another option to grab a bite to eat in Merrill.
Pineridge Mobil gas station is adding Arby's to its convenience store. It will be right across the street from McDonald's and Culvers on Highway 64.
MADISON - The Republican leader of the state Senate says replacing Common Core education standards as Gov. Scott Walker wants will be ``difficult.''
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said in a statement Friday that while there may be support for repealing current standards, ``developing new standards that satisfy everyone's concerns will be much more difficult.''
RHINELANDER - Get ready for another great Northwoods tradition this weekend, the 51st annual School of the Arts will begin at 8:30 am tomorrow (July 19th) in the James Williams Middle School in Rhinelander. The event is put on by leaders from UW-Madison and typically attracts more than 150 artists from around the state.
The classes are offered over a five-day period (from July 19th-23rd) are geared for adults 18 and older.
WISCONSIN - Wisconsin agricultural officials have added seven more counties to the state's emerald ash borer quarantine.
The Department of Agriculture has found the destructive insect in three of those seven counties _ Columbia, Grant and Monroe. The rest are in close proximity, which include Richland, Iowa, Lafayette and Green.
MERRILL - Many guardsmen serving in a Merrill National Guard unit will be moved to a different location.
It's a part of a unit reorganization directed by the Army. Merrill will lose its unit, but it will stay open for soldiers participating in what's called the Recruit Sustainment Program.
SUGAR CAMP - Brent Lorbetske's barn on his Sugar Camp farm burned down in January.
He started rebuilding the barn earlier this week.
But this isn't the first time he's had to rebuild after a fire.
MILWAUKEE - Jeff Crawford stands in a hard hat on the 16th floor of a colossal new Potawatomi development in Milwaukee.
He's the Attorney General of the Forest County Potawatomi tribe.
"The tribe was arguably one of the poorest tribes in the entire country prior to 1991," Crawford says.
RHINELANDER - For some, Cross Country Bar & Grill in Rhinelander is the perfect summer eatery.
The Northwoods bar was recently featured in a tourism directory amongst some of the best places to visit.
NORTHWOODS - A crew from the Northwoods left this morning to help fight fires in Washington state.
Nearly 900 homes have been evacuated there as three wildfires burn through a mountainous region.
WOODRUFF - A crash sent 2 people to the hospital. It happened this afternoon.
The 2 cars crashed on County Highway J near Woodruff.
"We have a report of 2 cars it appears at this time that one car crossed the center lane and we have a head-on collision," says Bill Nichols of the Town of Woodruff Police Depatment.
ELKHORN - The lawyer for a former police officer accused of hiding the bodies of two women who died during rough sex in suitcases left along a rural road says his client had encounters involving bondage with many other women as well.
Walworth County Public Defender Travis Schwantes says 52-year-old Steven Zelich had many relationships online and in person with many women.
SUPERIOR - Wisconsin's six chippewa bands will tell federal regulations next month why they oppose plans for a massive mine.
Gogebic Taconite's wants to build a 4 mile open pit mine in Ashland and Iron counties.
MINOCQUA - Leaders at a family owned business in Minocqua believe they're off to a good start.
Northern Waters Distillery opened its doors three weeks ago. It's an idea the owner, Peter Nomm, has had for months. The distillery offers a new product to the area.
MADISON - After shortages last winter, people who use propane may want to plan ahead.
A number of Midwestern states, including Wisconsin, grappled with a pronounced propane shortage.
RHINELANDER - A UW-Milwaukee Urban Initiatives & Research study shows the majority of Wisconsinites, from both parties, support an increase to the state's minimum wage.
Wisconsin's $7.25 minimum wage hasn't been changed since federal law increased it to the current level in 2009.
LAC DU FLAMBEAU - For 104 years, tribal members in Lac du Flambeau gazed out onto the largest island in Flambeau Lake, the lake central on their reservation.
Strawberry Island is a place with deep cultural and historical value to the tribe.
But it wasn't theirs.
MADISON - Gov. Scott Walker wants the legislature to repeal Common Core.
The standards are guidelines for what students know in math and English language arts from kindergarten through 12th grade.
LUGERVILLE - A small community in Price County celebrates the 100th birthday of an iconic building this week.
"In 1904, Frank, John, and Lewis Luger and their father came out here to log and make a logging mill. And then they decided that with more and more people coming here that they needed to build homes," says Therese Trojak, member of the Save the Lugerville School Committee.
RHINELANDER - People living in Rhinelander can get fresh eggs...right from their backyards.In November, the city council passed an ordinance allowing people to raise chickens in the city.
The woman who pushed for the ordinance, is now the first person in Rhinelander to own chickens.
VILAS COUNTY - Two bats found in Vilas County had rabies.
Veterinarians say it's a good reminder to vaccinate pets.
There's no cure for rabies, so if an animal catches it, it'll die.
