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The Green Bay Packers have listed Sam Shields as doubtful for Sunday's game against Minnesota after the team's top cornerback was evaluated this week for a concussion.

In the wake of the death of two Wisconsin farmers who died from lethal gas fumes while working on the farm, local farmers and state officials remind everyone that safety should always be the biggest priority.

Congressman Sean Duffy met with officials from the Marathon County Sheriff's Department on Friday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says his agents have finished their investigation into the fatal police shooting that sparked riots in Milwaukee.

We are constantly on our phones. Some of us never turn them off. And that can be a costly mistake when traveling abroad.

   FARGO, N.D. (AP) - Protesters of an oil pipeline under construction near a Native American reservation in North Dakota are getting an assist from a top-flight college basketball player. 

(CNN)--Those with a criminal past may now have a fair chance at going to college.   

  MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A judge has ruled that a 41-year-old Wisconsin man accused of decapitating his mother with a sword will stay indefinitely in a mental health institution. 

 (CNN)--A court is holding Nick Gordon legally responsible for Bobbi Kristina Brown's death. 

   NEW YORK (AP) -- A New York City museum is offering visitors a chance to sit on a golden throne, but only in private.  

  NEW YORK (AP) -- Johnson & Johnson says it is paying more than $4.3 billion in cash to buy the eye health unit of Abbott Laboratories to boost its vision business.  

    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- People might be a little more curious about "Fifty Shades Darker " than "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," at least according to trailer views online. 

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- A Kronenwetter man calls on the United States to do more to clear bombs in Laos. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The state Department of Corrections is asking Gov. Scott Walker to spend millions in the next state budget to add staff at Wisconsin's troubled youth prison.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump has finally acknowledged the fact that President Barack Obama was born in the United States. 

TOWN OF HIXON (WAOW) -- We now know the name of the Clark County teen who died in a farming accident. 

Wisconsin health officials are asking Gov. Scott Walker to increase Medicaid spending by $452 million in the upcoming state budget.

Sports Express AM made a stop at Colby High School Friday morning where the students got ready for a Cloverbelt Conference match up against the Spencer Columbus Rockets.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- A man charged with killing two nuns in Mississippi is scheduled for a court hearing, where prosecutors will present evidence before the case goes to a grand jury. Forty-six-year-old Rodney Earl Sanders of Kosciusko, Mississippi, is charged with capital murder in the deaths of Sisters Margaret Held and Paula Merrill, who worked as nurse practitioners in one of the poorest counties in the nation.

A man who was shot by police on a crowded New York City street after he struck an off-duty detective with a meat cleaver was initially stopped because he was trying to remove a boot from a vehicle that he was apparently living in, authorities said.