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The Wisconsin Supreme Court has refused to reconsider whether the state's voter photo identification law is unconstitutional.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The vast majority of students receiving a taxpayer-subsidized voucher to attend private school this year did not go to a Wisconsin public school last year.

The group One Direction will be making a stop in Wisconsin, according to concert promoters.

PLOVER (WAOW) – A semi-truck pulled in front of a sports utility vehicle, injuring the smaller vehicle's 72-year-old driver, the Portage County Sheriff's Department said Thursday.

Just 12 days before the election, state Rep. Brett Hulsey says he is running for governor as an independent write-in candidate.

ANTIGO (WAOW) – An 82-year-old Elcho woman was seriously hurt in a three-car crash that blocked state Highway 45 for nearly six hours, the Langlade County Sheriff's Department said Thursday.

A video of a pair of dueling, dancing American priests studying in Rome has gone viral.

 A new poll finds most Americans have some confidence that the U.S. health care system will prevent Ebola from spreading in this country, but they're not so sure their local hospital can safely handle a patient.

The Secret Service has apprehended a man who jumped over the White House fence.

EF3 in Verona, now fourth confirmed tornado in area overnight

Western Wisconsin (WQOW) - In the slideshow above, you'll see mugshots for 20 people who've been charged after a year-long investigation into meth distribution throughout the Chippewa Valley.Click here for the full story.

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Members of the trivia team "Graduates of a Lesser God" used every resource they could, to try and win the 90FM Trivia 44 competition in Stevens Point.

Chris Schumacher and 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick may look like brothers, but their relationship is much more complicated.

We've learned one person has died in a crash on Highway 29 near Abbotsford.

he man police say was found naked near the Wausau whitewater course was sentenced to 45 days in jail and two years probation.

The Green Bay Packers, along with WAOW-TV, WTMJ-TV, WGBA-TV, WKOW-TV, WQOW-TV, WXOW-TV, KQDS-TV, WLUC-TV, and FOX UP entered a comprehensive broadcasting partnership in 2012.  The agreement provides in-depth Packers coverage, in addition to preseason games, to fans throughout Wisconsin and the upper Midwest.

According to Wausau police, Keith R. Apfel, 33, is wanted for a parole violation. Police say he was convicted of fondling a child.

Three men were honored tonight for pulling a boy out of a fiery car after a crash last weekend. The boy's mother says if it wasn't for those men, her three-year-old son wouldn't be alive today.

Milwaukee police have arrested four people for disorderly conduct at a downtown Occupy Milwaukee protest.