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   ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- The third and final night of preliminary competition in the Miss America pageant is set for Thursday in Atlantic City.    The competition includes contestants from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.    On Wednesday, Miss Arkansas Savvy Shields won the talent competition with a jazz dance to a song from the TV show "Smash," and Miss Maryland Hannah Brewer won the swimsuit competition. &nbsp...

  NEW YORK (AP) -- Officials say Barbra Streisand will serve as chair of a planned performing arts center at the World Trade Center.    The announcement was made Thursday at a design-unveiling for the long-stalled project.    It will be called the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center and is scheduled to open in 2020.    The billionaire businessman donated $75 million for the project in June.    Officials have said the donation will...

From pyramids to flips and every trick in between, the best water skiers from around the globe will perform on Lake Wazeecha in Wood County this weekend.

A high school cheerleader diagnosed with leukemia is got a lot of love from her football team.

The Bassmaster Elite Tournament stop in La Crosse runs from September 8 through September 11. During the tournament, we'll be adding photos of the anglers as they compete for a top prize of $100,000. 

Wisconsin taxpayers will pay $1.6 million to attorneys who represented Planned Parenthood and others in a lawsuit that successfully challenged a law requiring hospital admitting privileges for doctors who perform abortions.

A Senate panel has opened a preliminary investigation into why the price of lifesaving EpiPens has skyrocketed.

A man once acquitted in the death of a rival gang member in Virginia has been arrested in Wisconsin where he's suspected of killing a 31-year-old Green Bay area woman.

How could you forget Wisconsin's most faithful superfans? 

A Boscobel, Wis. woman who is charged with beating her 3-month-old baby to death was deemed not competent to stand trial today in a Grant County court.

UPDATE: Richland Center schools are closed Thursday because of flooding.

A woman who was kidnapped at a Montana rest stop in broad daylight was able to talk with her husband by cellphone several times and even talked with police, but she was dead by the time authorities found her car 325 miles away near Spokane International Airport, Montana authorities said.

President Barack Obama will deliver remarks at a Pentagon ceremony Sunday marking the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Is it possible to be completely physically disabled one day and fully active the next? That was the million dollar question for Dennis Paulsen. 

It was a heated meeting Wednesday night in Wausau, all over the drawdown proposal for Lake Wausau.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton has announced a "Wisconsin Women for Hillary" coalition that includes a former Bernie Sanders supporter. 

Students and staff at UW Stevens Point are responding well to the all-gender bathrooms on campus. 

The mother of missing 29 year-old veteran Brian Rossell said that her son went to the Tomah VA this summer looking for medical help, but he was turned away. 

The Portage County Sheriff's Department held a retirement party for their four-legged partner Wednesday. 

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- U.S. Geological Survey researchers say they're upgrading the strength of an Oklahoma earthquake that struck over the weekend to a 5.8 magnitude, making it the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in the state.