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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin prison guard has served a one-day suspension for a joke on Facebook about President Barack Obama and lynching.

Authorities say a 7-year-old boy who was celebrating the Fourth of July with his family was among three people who were shot and killed overnight in Chicago.

An escaped murderer who was shot after three weeks on the run has been moved from a New York hospital to another maximum-security prison.

One person was killed Sunday in Vilas County after a car struck a tree and caught fire, according to the Vials County Sheriffs Department.

Police have searched parts of the Madison campus of the University of Wisconsin and found no one with a weapon after receiving a call from a man who said he had a firearm in the library.

Milwaukee police are investigating a string of five separate shootings that left three men dead and two injured.

The fireworks at the 70th annual Wausau area Fourth of July celebration attracted thousands to Marathon Park.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee police say theyve taken a juvenile male into custody as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy in a dispute that started with a fight over a girl on Facebook.

Main Street in Stevens Point was packed for the annual Fourth of July parade.

A local farmers market is growing in size and popularity.

 Green Bay Packers tight end Andrew Quarless has been arrested for allegedly firing two shots into the air during an argument outside a Miami Beach parking garage.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker says he wants a proposed overhaul of Wisconsins open records law removed from the state budget or at least significantly changed.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee police say a 14-year-old boy was fatally shot in a dispute that started with a fight over a girl on Facebook.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee County bus drivers have returned to work after a three-day strike over staffing and wages.

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- A motorcyclist was taken to the hospital after he was hit by a van Friday night.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republicans who control the Wisconsin Assembly have voted to call an extraordinary session next week to deal with the state budget and bills to repeal the states prevailing wage for construction workers and prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. A spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Friday that lawmakers voted by paper ballot to hold the special session. The Assemblys rules committee voted 5-3 with all Republicans in favor. A spokeswoman didnt...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- Some family members of those killed in the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting have said they forgive the man whos been charged. But others in the African-American community say offering forgiveness so quickly may not be the best idea. Experts say the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal families offering forgiveness may have spared Charleston racial unrest, unlike in Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore after the deaths of black men in encounters with pol...

Officials say nine people suffered minor burns during an accident at a fireworks show in Colorado. Virginia Egger, the town manager in Avon, says a malfunction caused a fireworks shell to explode in its tube rather than firing into the sky Friday night. 

While the Y Men’s Mud Volleyball Tournament is always a big hit at National Tom Sawyer Days, it is not the only big attraction that will bring more than 100,000 people to America’s hometown. The event opened Wednesday and ends Sunday.

STEVENS POINT (WAOW)--Thousands of people came out tonight for the annual Riverfront Rendezvous in Stevens Point.