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The man who shot President Ronald Reagan wants more than anything to "fit in" and be "a good citizen."

A government watchdog says Social Security overpaid disability beneficiaries by nearly $17 billion over the past decade.

Gov. Scott Walker's spokeswoman says the governor would sign a state budget that includes no borrowing to pay for highways and other transportation projects in Wisconsin, a move that would delay work all across the state.

A woman whose car struck and killed a bicyclist north of Lansing has been barred from using a cellphone while on probation for two years.

Wisconsin Badgers sophomore Nigel Hayes was given the honor of picking Dictionary.com's word of the day.

A man in Connecticut reportedly called 911 from outside his house to report that his "aggressive" cat attacked him in his home.

STEVENS POINT (WAOW)-- Nearly 1,500 athletes are in Stevens Point this weekend competing in the Wisconsin State Special Olympics Summer games.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A federal judge has sentenced a northern Wisconsin woman to a year and a day in prison for filing a false tax return. U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb sentenced 58-year-old Cornelia Mutter of St. Germain on Thursday.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson says he intends to break the trend and become the first Republican to win election to the Senate in a presidential year in Wisconsin since 1980.

A new poll finds a majority of Americans say immigrants living in the U.S. illegally should be allowed to stay and have legal status.

Accident investigators say a Tennessee school bus driver was texting at the time of a crash that killed two young girls and an aspiring teacher last year.

Rick Perry entered the Republican presidential race Thursday.

RHINELANDER (AP) -- A teenager accused of killing her mother and stepfather and locking three younger sisters in a room before fleeing to Indiana was ordered to stand trial Friday, according to online Oneida County court records.

Republicans are striking back at Hillary Rodham Clinton's suggestions that they have tried to disenfranchise voters.

A friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for removing Tsarnaev's backpack from his dorm room with another friend after the 2013 attack.

The entire U.S. federal workforce may be at risk after yet another intrusion from what security experts believe were hackers based in China.

Competition for the Special Olympics Wisconsin Summer Games is getting underway in Stevens Point.

Could the United States go cashless one day? That's what some are asking after one European country says it hopes to remove all paper and coin currency from retail transactions. 

Four-year-old Ellie Evangelista from New York City just may be Spider-Man's biggest fan. But recently, Ellie was upset because boys in her Pre-K class told her she can't be or like Spider-Man because she's a girl, her mom said.

If you have a sweet tooth, go ahead and rejoice. Today is National Donut Day!