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BALSAM LAKE, Wis. — A fugitive wanted for murder in Hennepin County is now in custody after being arrested in western Wisconsin Saturday afternoon. Polk County Sheriff Brent Waak says his ...
BALSAM LAKE, Wis. — Nearly 40 years after prosecutors ... She will be back in the Polk County Courthouse on July 2 for sentencing. Jack Owen, the man in the middle of the alleged love triangle ...
TOWN OF BALSAM LAKE, Wis. (WEAU ... The driver of the semi-truck was not reported to be hurt. The Wisconsin State Patrol and the Polk County Sheriff’s Office are investigating the crash.
At around 1:30 p.m., the Polk County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Response Team responded to an apartment in Balsam Lake, Wisconsin, for a second-degree murder warrant issued out of Hennepin County.
A verbal dispute between the Wisconsin friends and a group ... is on trial in Polk County Circuit Court in Balsam Lake, Wis., on one count each of first-degree reckless homicide and second-degree ...
BALSAM LAKE, Wis. (WEAU ... Also assisting at the scene were the Wisconsin State Patrol, Polk County Medical Examiner, Allied Fire and First Responders, New Richmond EMS, Northwestern Municipal ...
A jury has convicted an 81-year-old Arizona woman in a 1985 western Wisconsin ... days in Balsam Lake, and jurors deliberated for just over two hours. Yvonne Menke. (Courtesy of Polk County ...