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Dozens of baskets of flowers have been hung downtown, a herald of spring for the past 12 years.

RACINE — Alligators, crocodiles, venomous snakes and other poisonous reptiles do not make good pets. Period.

Indian Trail boys track and field coach Brian Vanderhoef believed success would eventually come for his first-year program. He just never envisioned it would happen this quickly.

In the scheme of political scandals, Kenosha’s case of the glued door lock is no Watergate.

Charges have been filed against a woman believed to have stolen more than $170,000 from the cemetery where she worked from 2006 to 2009.

Today’s problem: Deterioration and disrepair of equipment deterred parents, families from bringing kids to the lakefront playground popularly known as “Tot’s Park,”

The two men shot in last week’s home invasion are lucky to be alive, prosecutors said. Both were shot in the head or face at close range.

The couple accused of starving and neglecting horses on their Pleasant Prairie farm are headed for a hearing, despite not yet hiring an attorney.

For Tim Fulton, a Somers small-scale beekeeper and past Wisconsin Honey Producer Association president, says the continuing loss of honeybee colonies throughout the world is a cause for major alarm.

Tremper senior tennis player John Carswell will take a perfect record into next week’s WIAA Individual State Tournament in Madison.

Kevin Kolaczewski fired a 77 (37-40) and was one stroke short of winning medalist honors as the Bradford golf team won the eight-team WIAA Division-1 regional Tuesday at Meadowbrook Country Club in Racine.

A resurfacing project will bring more lane closures to Interstate 94 in Kenosha County starting next week.

Everything was going well Friday night, just the way teenagers Chris Wynne, Diamond Hartwell and Daniel Dieterich hoped it would when the three Harborside Academy students put together a band-o-rama as their senior community service project.

Who do you turn to when you’re facing a terminal or serious illness, but you’re still well enough to live a somewhat normal life? Palliative care experts — who usually operate in teams of doctors, nurses, social workers and spiritual advisers — work with seriously ill patients to make sure their last months or years on earth are as good as they can be.

A resurfacing project will bring more lane closures to Interstate 94 in Kenosha County starting next week.

A joint effort among three community entities has seen success in a new approach to a traditional emergency medical service training program.

An attorney charged with drunken driving has been unable to abstain from alcohol, police say, racking up four bail jumping cases after being caught drinking when he had been ordered not to drink.