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(CNN)-- An Ohio teen is dead after contracting a brain-eating amoeba on a trip to North Carolina. She was with a ministry group from Messiah United Methodist Church when she apparently came into contact with the deadly bacteria.

RIB MOUNTAIN (WAOW - Marathon County investigators say thieves have ripped off more than $10,000 from Wal Mart stores in three weeks in a sophisticated scheme involving counterfeit video games.

MERRILL  (WAOW)-- Our Lincoln County Petsaver for Wednesday is Candy. 

COTTRELLVILLE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan couple faces abandoning or cruelty to animal charges after 98 dogs and three cats were found in their home. 

AITKIN, Minn. (AP) -- A criminal complaint charging a Minnesota man in the hit-and-run death of a 10-year-old girl says investigators matched tire tracks on the victim's body to the boat trailer the defendant was towing at the time of the crash. 

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) -- A 41-year-old man has been arrested after driving his car into a loading dock gate at the Oakland County Jail and threatening to kill deputies. 

A national survey of new-car buyers found that reliability is improving for most automakers. 

Gov. Scott Walker's administration is telling state employees what changes to their work rules will take effect next week.

Even as some Wisconsin Republicans are urging delegates to the national convention to get aboard the movement to dump presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump, others in the state GOP continue to urge unity. 

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen says she is hopeful that a recent slowdown in job growth will be temporary. 

An independent candidate for Congress has posted a campaign sign in Tennessee that says "Make America White Again." 

House Democrats are staging a sit-down protest, seeking a vote on gun control measures following the Orlando nightclub shooting. 

A friend of the gunman who shot "The Voice" singer Christina Grimmie after an Orlando concert says his friend had developed a fixation on her within the last year. 

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson's second television ad in his re-election campaign avoids any reference to him being an incumbent senator, just as his first spot did. 

Longtime University of Wisconsin-Madison police chief Sue Riseling is retiring. 

A new Gallup survey estimates that 123,000 same-sex marriages have taken place across the U.S. in the year since the Supreme Court ruling that legalized such unions nationwide. 

The NHL Board of Governors is scheduled to meet Wednesday and expected to vote on whether to award an expansion franchise to Las Vegas. 

Michigan's attorney general is suing two companies, blaming them for Flint's lead-tainted water crisis. 

Gov. Scott Walker has picked two appeals court judges and an attorney as finalists for an appointment to the Wisconsin Supreme Court. 

Leading Republicans expect Sen. Marco Rubio to announce he is running for re-election to his Florida Senate seat.