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Jon Gray allowed two singles in four scoreless innings, helping his chances of making Colorado's rotation and leading the Rockies to 5-1 spring win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday.

President Barack Obama says the U.S. will keep just under 10,000 troops in Afghanistan through the end of 2015 at the request of Afghanistan's new president, Ashraf Ghani.

NEW LONDON (WAOW) – A car rear-ended a school bus carrying New London students as the bus was stopped for a pickup early Tuesday, the Waupaca County Sheriff's Department said.

Angelina Jolie says she has had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to prevent cancer.

The Flaming Lips, Sheryl Crow and Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeroes are among the bands that will headline this year's Summerfest in Milwaukee.

A German official says a high school group returning from an exchange in Spain was on board the Germanwings plane that crashed in the French Alps, killing all 150 people onboard.

Angelina Jolie takes another step to reduce her risks of getting cancer. In an op-ed for the New York Times, the actress reveals she recently had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed.

Traffic is at a standstill because of a three-car crash in Rib Mountain at US 51 and County Highway NN, according to Wisconsin State Patrol.

Wisconsin lawmakers are set to hear the public's thoughts on allowing off-duty and retired police officers to carry guns in schools.

Opponents of a Republican proposal to eliminate the tax on business equipment say Wisconsin homeowners would see their property taxes increase to make up for the lost tax revenue.

Now that spring has arrived you might be thinking it's time to dust off that old gym membership and get back into your workout routine, but what has happened to your body while you hit pause on your workouts this winter?

A hearing is scheduled for today at 1:30 p.m. for the juvenile driver involved in a rollover crash just outside of Wausau that killed two girls and injured eight other young people last summer.

French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet says debris from the crash of an Airbus A320 has been located and the plane crashed at 2,000 meters altitude in the Alps.

French President Francois Hollande says no survivors are likely in the Alpine crash of a passenger jet carrying 148 people.

States with warm weather might not be the best spots to spend retirement.

VILLAGE OF MOUNT PLEASANT, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities say a 20-year-old man accused of abducting a woman from a southeastern Wisconsin hospital and fleeing from sheriff's deputies in an exchange of gunfire has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

TOWN OF FRIENDSHIP, Wis. (AP) -- A 26-year-old Fond du Lac man has died after the pickup truck he was working on fell on him.

The Mosinee Fire Department held it's annual Firefighters Banquet in Rothschild Monday.

In 2014 the Green Bay Packers wild card playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers was almost blacked out because of the NFL's blackout policy. 

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is just the first of candidates making an announcement to run for president.