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NEENAH The Rhex and Claire Arboleda family had a golden week, receiving a new home, a paid-off mortgage, a Disney vacation, a $100,000 college fund and a new Ford Flex crossover.

Oshkosh schools have $3 million left over from the last school year, an unexpected surplus after the school board slashed $5.5 million in spending to keep 2009 taxes low.

Councilors unanimously approved extending the no wake zone surrounding the Oshkosh Avenue bridge from a weekend designation to in effect all week.

Criminal proceedings will continue for a Fremont man accused of driving a boat drunk and causing a crash that killed a passenger.

The Oshkosh Common Council approved an annexation request and service agreement with Utica Energy LLC Tuesday to extend sewer service to the town of Utica ethanol plant.

APPLETON Police say a 23-year-old Oshkosh man engaged in a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old girl he met over the Internet.

A 35-year-old Oshkosh woman was arrested late Monday following an altercation with her 37-year-old boyfriend in a van at Fourth Avenue and Guenther Street.

The beach at Menominee Park was closed Tuesday after water samples revealed elevated levels of E. coli bacteria in the water.

View photos from the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition build in Neenah.

MADISON Wisconsin residents have until Sept. 1 to sign up for the states no-call list to block phone calls from telemarketers.

NEENAH The howl of a stone-cutting saw biting into thick limestone slabs fills the neighborhood where a week earlier thousands of people stood vigil over the construction of an Extreme Makeover: Home Edition house.

LAKE DELTON Amusement park manager Chuck Carnell fancied himself a star after he appeared on a national television program featuring one of the parks scariest rides. But the limelight shifted in one nightmarish moment.

APPLETON A 19-year-old Appleton man accused of spray painting gang-related graffiti throughout a neighborhood in June will make his first court appearance next month on 23 criminal counts.

SUAMICO Zuri the giraffe lost a baby calf on Sunday afternoon at the NEW Zoo.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Obama administration regulations expanding stem cell research.

Oshkosh schools will get $2.1 million in federal money enough to save about 38 full-time teaching jobs this fall, according to paperwork submitted last week by Gov. Jim Doyles office.

Funeral Service will be held Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. at Mueller Funeral Home W63N527 Hanover Avenue, Cedarburg, WI for Thomas Tom C. Ulezelski of Grafton, WI who died August 19, 2010 at the age of 67 years. Visitation will be held on Tuesday at the funeral home from 4:30pm until the time of service. Private interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. Memorials to American Legion Rose-Harms ...

Ann Thern pushed a shopping cart through the aisles of the Oshkosh Area Community Pantry recently, picking out food items for her family.

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