News from around Wisconsin at 6:58 p.m. CDT

Associated Press

8:00 PM EDT, July 26, 2008

WATERTOWN, Wis. - A light plane landing at the Watertown Municipal Airport crashed Saturday, setting off an explosion as it came down at one end of a hangar.

A witness told WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee that the plane was making its approach but as it touched down it went out of control, finally soaring up and then crashing back down.

The witness said there was a large explosion when the plane crashed.

Authorities said the pilot and his wife were taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.

A number of pilots had stopped at the airport before flying on to Oshkosh and the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture fly-in and convention that opens Monday at Wittman Field.

Wisconsin Aviation has its headquarters at the airport. The company provides general aviation services, including aircraft and equipment sales, chartering and flight training.

------ Bevell avoids Favre talk, says they're friends

MANKATO, Minn. (AP) -- Darrell Bevell's blond hair and youthful face seem to subvert his actual age of 38.

He doesn't look much different than he did in 1993, when he was a sophomore quarterback for the Rose Bowl champion Wisconsin Badgers and two years removed from a Mormon mission.

Bevell is a soft-spoken, polite man who was so reluctant to speak out of turn in his first training camp as offensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings that he responded to a question about an approaching scrimmage by saying he didn't "want to look ahead."

So it was strange to see him step behind a podium on Saturday, for his regularly scheduled interview session with reporters, as an alleged figure in the NFL's latest firestorm. Bevell has been fingered by the Green Bay Packers for talking to Brett Favre about his interest in un-retiring.

"It's not the message I want out there," Bevell said. "I want us focusing on the Minnesota Vikings. What we're doing here, what we're trying to prepare for, the season that we're having. Keep the focus on our team, and that's where I would like it to stay."

This was his first address of the situation since the Packers filed a tampering charge with the league against the rival Vikings regarding alleged against-the-rules contact with Favre. The NFL is investigating. Bevell was Green Bay's quarterbacks coach from 2003-05 and got to know the gunslinging, goofy-grinning Favre quite well during that time.

"I would say we're really good friends, and other than that it's a league matter and they are taking care of it," said Bevell, who is in his third year as Minnesota's offensive coordinator under coach Brad Childress.

------ Milwaukee archdiocese hires married priest

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has hired a married Roman Catholic priest with children -- a first in the archdiocese's history.

The priest, Father Michael Scheip, and his wife have juvenile and adult sons and are moving from the Diocese of Venice, Fla. She has accepted a job here.

Although no married priest has served here, about 100 married priests have been ordained in the United States since the late Pope John Paul II created an exception in 1980 that allows married Lutheran and Anglican or Episcopal priests who have converted to Roman Catholicism to become priests, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan wrote in a letter to priests and deacons recently.

Scheip entered Catholicism in 1988 and was ordained in 1993 for the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., by now-retired Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C., Dolan's letter says. He is also a former Lutheran minister.

Dolan is working on a placement for him, archdiocesan spokeswoman Julie Wolf said Friday.