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TORONTO (AP) -- Doctor-assisted dying is about to become legal in Canada without clear legislation on how it would work.

PORTAGE, Wis. (AP) -- Sheriff's officials have identified the two victims of a single-car crash in Columbia County. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Around a half-dozen Wisconsin prison inmates say they plan to go on a hunger strike this week in hopes of forcing the Department of Corrections to do away with solitary confinement. 

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee police say some family members of a baby who died suddenly have been arrested. 

People flocking to gemologists to get their diamonds checked out after Kay was accused of swapping out stones are learning lessons you might need to know.

  WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden is unveiling a public database for clinical data on cancer that aims to help researchers and doctors better tailor new treatments to individuals.   

  HOLDEN, La. (AP) -- It's taken decades, but an actor best known for his role on "The Dukes of Hazzard" TV series is finally doing what he always thought was his calling: producing films.    

 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hearing loss is a growing public health problem that can leave older adults socially isolated and even increase the risk of dementia.    

(CNN)-- The author of the Harry Potter series is going after people criticizing the casting of a black actress in an upcoming Harry Potter play.  

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is making a major change in the way it hires conservation wardens.

Authorities in West Virginia say a man and woman have been arrested on charges that they tried to sell the woman's baby. 

The Afghan president on Monday condemned the killing of David Gilkey, a veteran news photographer and video editor for National Public Radio, and an Afghan translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, who died in an insurgent ambush the day before while on assignment in southern Afghanistan. 

A 6-year-old is hurt after being hit by a truck Sunday, according to the Wood County Sheriff's Department.

The mother of an infant who authorities say died of poisoning from an overdose of Benadryl expressed feelings of "shock" on Sunday after learning that police had charged the child's daycare provider with murder.

The newly crowned Miss USA is a 26-year-old Army officer from the District of Columbia who gave perhaps the strongest answer of the night when asked about women in combat.

An afternoon storm on Sunday knocked out power and downed trees across North Central Wisconsin.

A 29-year-old man from southeastern Wisconsin is accused of driving around with the body of a woman who overdosed on heroin before seeking help.

It's often called the forgotten war, but on Sunday, Wisconsin's Korean War veterans were honored, and fallen soldiers were remembered, in a ceremony held at the Wisconsin Korean War Veterans Memorial in Plover.  

An end-of-the-school-year tradition for some students did not go over well at a Wisconsin high school.

Milwaukee police are investigating after two men were found shot to death.