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A Wisconsin police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in an internal investigation of his fatal shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old man.

BANCROFT (WAOW) – Portage County Sheriff Mike Lucas says deputies have responded to reports of shots being fired in Bancroft on Wednesday.

This month we are celebrating an industry that brings so much to the Badger State -- dairy!

One of the most popular spots near Lambeau Field is expanding in a big way.

LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) -- A group of rail safety and environmental advocates opposed to a railroad expansion project through the La Crosse River marsh is asking a judge to pause work on a second BNSF track until the court decides whether the company's permit is legal.La Crosse County Commissioner Maureen Freedland and members of the grassroots organization Citizens Acting for Rail Safety filed a lawsuit in March against the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The lawsuit claims the agenc...

Ashley Furniture Industries has acknowledged that it's in "exploratory" discussions with investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, but downplays the possibility of a sale.

The happiest place on earth is also the most popular.

Lace up your shoes and hit the pavement or treadmill -- Wednesday is National Running Day!

An eccentric Ohio judge told a scofflaw teen to take a hike -- and walk 30 miles for stiffing a cabbie for a ride of the same length or face 30 days in the slammer.

Three people were hurt in a two-vehicle crash in the Town of Pine River, according to Lincoln County Sheriff's officials.

The milkman going door-to-door, making his deliveries is something you see in a black and white movie. That is, unless you're one of the few people in Madison who gets deliveries from the one milkman left.

Fifty years ago, there was a milestone in space. On June 3, 1965, Major Edward White became the first American astronaut to perform a spacewalk.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Milwaukee police say a 5-year-old boy was shot and wounded while he played with other children.

Scores, results and highlights from Tuesday's local sports action, including sectional softball, sectional golf and regional baseball.

A Wausau man who officials say stopped an armed robbery less than two weeks ago is now the suspect in an armed robbery that happened Sunday night.

The Marathon County village of Brokaw is deep in debt. But one resident is doing her part to try and raise money to pay that debt off. 

LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- A panel of experts will study proposals to allow fish farming in Michigan's Great Lakes waters.Department of Environmental Quality officials said in March they'd heard from two operators interested in raising rainbow trout in netted enclosures in Lakes Michigan and Huron. They would take fish from small hatcheries and raise them until large enough for the consumer food market.DEQ Director Dan Wyant said Tuesday the proposals raise questions about protecting the lakes. S...

Authorities say the man suspected of gunning down a state trooper and another man after robbing a rural Wisconsin bank was not responsible for a second bank robbery that day.

 Hundreds of employees are in limbo as a bankrupt Portage County business waits to be sold.

Authorities have seized nearly 1,200 birds as they break up an alleged cockfighting ring in western Wisconsin.