A Keshena man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Green Bay to sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl earlier this year. According to the plea agreement filed in court: Jacob J. Zhuckkahosee, 20, told FBI investigators that he went to a friend’s residence on the Menominee Indian Reservation on the day of the assault and got high on synthetic marijuana.

Prosecutors in a double homicide trial concentrated on contradictory accounts from a rural Shawano man about the day his ex-lover and her brother were slain in 2009, a love-affair diary his mistress allegedly kept and the use of marijuana as loan repayment. Assistant Attorney General Richard Dufour on Wednesday recalled two investigators to testify in the trial of Daniel Schmidt, 30, who faces life in prison for the murders of Kimberly Rose, 32,

A small gathering of people took a moment to remember loved ones lost too soon during a candlelight remembrance Tuesday at Swedberg Funeral Home. Today’s society denies death, said Ellen Swedberg, co-founder of Reaching Out About Depression and Suicide (ROADS).

Starting this fall, Community Memorial Hospital will be part of a national pilot project for small, rural hospitals focusing on transfers from the emergency department. The project is supported by MetaStar and funded through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The Office of Rural Health is also working in partnership on this effort.

Proceedings from Oct. 10 A preliminary hearing will be held Nov. 1 for Thomas J. LaViolette, 42, Oconto. He is charged with strangulation and suffocation, battery and disorderly conduct and was arrested Aug. 10 in Oconto. A $500 cash bond continues. An arraignment will take place Nov. 13 for Dylan J. Wittock, 19, Lena. He is charged with being party to burglary, party to causing criminal damage to property, and two counts of theft.

At 3:57 a.m. Sept. 22, a car driven by a Wabeno woman was traveling south on North Road in the town of Lakewood. The vehicle failed to negotiate a curve, entered a ditch and rolled onto its roof, striking several trees. The driver was injured and transported to a medical facility. Three female passengers in the vehicle were not injured. At 2:15 a.m. Oct.

Student enrollment has changed this year in the Oconto Falls School District, but whether it’s up or down depends on how you crunch the numbers. The school district grew by 11 students, according to one of several summaries presented at the School Board meeting Monday.

An Oconto County jury will decide if a rural Shawano man, desperate to save his marriage and anxious over repaying a loan with marijuana he grew illegally, murdered his ex-mistress and her brother. Daniel Schmidt, 30, is accused of the shotgun slayings of Kimberly Rose, with whom he had a six-month affair, and her brother, Leonard Marsh, on May 19, 2009, in their town of Gillett home. In opening arguments Monday in Oconto County Circuit Court, As

A fledgling historical society has visions of developing a Heritage Hill-style park in Oconto Falls, with Spruce School as its centerpiece. Dale Seeling shared this vision Monday with the Oconto Falls School Board, asking the board to hold off selling the vacant school building and instead consider it as a historical attraction. In September, the School Board lowered the asking price of the two-room schoolhouse to $70,000.