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The House Benghazi committee has interviewed two drone sensor operators who were working on the night of the deadly 2012 attacks in Libya, including one who identified himself on talk radio as "John from Iowa."

The National Park Service says it demolished a historic home at Pearl Harbor without consulting historic preservation authorities as required.

A senior U.S. defense official says the administration is moving toward a decision to expand the military's authority to conduct airstrikes against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The University of Wisconsin System regents have agreed to ask lawmakers to give Wisconsin students another $12.7 million in financial aid over the next biennium.

Wisconsin's richest woman paid no state income taxes from 2012 through 2014.

The attorney for a Wisconsin man accused of killing an Illinois woman in an interstate drive-by shooting says the man has significant mental health issues.

University of Wisconsin System students won't face higher tuition next year but they would have to shell out more for fees as well as housing and food under a budget plan regents were set to approve Thursday.

One person is in the hospital after a two car crash in the town of Easton.

President Barack Obama will campaign with presumptive democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Green Bay on Wednesday, June 15, according to the Clinton campaign. 

The NFL has implemented three new rules, and two of them are direct responses to Packers incidents from last season.

A federal appeals court says people do not have a right to carry concealed weapons in public under the 2nd Amendment.

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- With the school year ending for students many area pools are opening for the season. 

Prosecutor Kym Worthy says accusations against those charged in the abduction and killing of a 13-year-old Detroit boy have "shocked" authorities. 

Governor Scott Walker has declared today, June 9, as Wisconsin's Heat Awareness Day to remind the public that hundreds of people die from extreme heat every year in the U.S., and often times these deaths can be prevented. 

Milwaukee County sheriff's officials say no criminal charges will be filed in the death of a mother who was shot by her 2-year-old son as she drove along a Milwaukee freeway. 

President Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders will meet privately in the Oval Office today, just two days after Obama effectively declared Sanders' opponent, Hillary Clinton, the winner of the Democratic primary. 

(ABC) -- The Virginia man who allegedly fought for ISIS before being captured by Kurdish forces is now back on U.S. soil to face federal terrorism-related charges, the Justice Department announced today.

SURGOINSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A convicted sex offender accused of luring a 14-year-old East Tennessee girl away from home has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and other charges in federal court.

(ABC) -- A Detroit man who was incarcerated after being wrongly convicted of four murders is walking free today, after serving nearly nine years of a sentence he received at the age of 15.

A woman whose husband was fatally shot near their home on Milwaukee's north side say they bought a house in a troubled neighborhood because he wanted to inspire change and develop an urban farm.