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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee has approved Gov. Scott Walker's proposal reducing the number of years adults can receive welfare benefits. 

SYDNEY (AP) -- Johnny Depp's dogs Pistol and Boo are preparing to flee Australia for the United States after the country's agriculture minister angrily accused the Hollywood actor of sneaking the pups into the country. 

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- The Nepalese army says a rescue helicopter has spotted the wreckage of a missing U.S. Marine chopper in the mountains northeast of Kathmandu. 

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- `King of the Blues' legend B.B. King dead in Las Vegas at age 89, his attorney says.

NEW YORK (AP) -- An investment banker at a Manhattan firm and his father have been charged with using inside information to trade in securities of five health care companies.

KRONENWETTER (WAOW)- Families came out to the Fourth Annual "Bike and Walk for the Health of it" event in Kronenwetter Thursday night.

 President Barack Obama is welcoming a Senate vote to advance legislation allowing him to negotiate trade deals that Congress can support or reject, but not change.

 Longtime Wisconsin senator Russ Feingold, a Democrat, announced Thursday he'll be running for the U.S. Senate in 2016.

A Marathon County middle school is getting some new athletic equipment worth more than $10,000.

A married same sex couple has filed a federal lawsuit against the Wisconsin Department of Health Services saying their birth certificate form did not allow them to put both of their names down as parents.

The Minneapolis police chief is asking anyone to step forward with information about a downtown demonstration over a police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin.

The Milwaukee Fire Department says all passengers made it out of an Amtrak train after a fire in the locomotive.

Pam Galloway made headlines when she left office. And now, so is her return.

An Amtrak locomotive has caught fire near Milwaukee's Walker's Point neighborhood.

A Lincoln County Sheriff's deputy has been charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl, according to the Marathon County Sheriff's Department.

ANTIGO (WAOW) - A 43-year-old Gleason man refused to leave his jail cell to be sentenced for being a felon in possession of a firearm, forcing a judge and other court officials to do the sentencing in the hall outside the man's cell, authorities said Thursday.

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction says four new religious private schools will be added to the statewide voucher program starting next year.

An 8-year-old Wausau boy was honored by the city council for helping his mother while she was having a seizure.

For sale: one husband. That's what a Florida woman posted on Facebook, after her husband did the unthinkable.

NEWBURG, Pa. (AP) -- State police say a New York man became angry when he couldn't get macaroni and cheese at a Pennsylvania Turnpike rest stop, then furious when the same restaurant was out of potatoes.