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TOWN OF ROME, Wis. (WAOW) -- A 50-year old Missouri female drove through a local town store on Monday Night.

Rochester Police made a number of prostitution-related arrests Monday.  Police said the street crimes unit responded to a back pages ad, and an undercover officer arranged to meet with Putania Petrie, 26 of Rochester around 1 p.m. Monday.

MILWAUKEE (AP) -- House Speaker Paul Ryan is vigorously defending the role of NATO and the importance of the United States leading the creation of free-trade agreements, in a break from positions taken by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is scheduled to attend a rally with Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence in Wisconsin on Wednesday night. 

Maricopa County Sheriff's officials say multiple dead bodies have been found inside a home in the Phoenix suburb of Gilbert.

(ABC) -- Get ready for another Duggar wedding! Jinger Duggar, 22, is engaged to soccer player Jeremy Vuolo, 28, ABC News has confirmed.

KIMBERLY, Wis. (WBAY) – Fox Valley Metro Police say a man is in custody after shooting a 9-year-old boy in the face with a BB gun.

Officials in central Florida say the cost of responding to last month's Pulse nightclub shooting by police officers, firefighters, hazmat crews and others comes to more than $1.7 million.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Nearly three dozen Chicago-area gang members have been indicted in an alleged racketeering conspiracy that includes arson, extortion and the attempted killing of a police officer. 

Gov. Mike Pence is praising his successor in the Indiana governor's race, calling the new Republican nominee "a man of great integrity who loves the people of our state."

A northern Virginia teen hit by a ball during baseball practice went into cardiac arrest, but he says a teammate's quick action helped save him.

PITTSBURGH (AP) -- A dump truck driver from Ohio has crashed his vehicle through the security gate of the FBI's offices in Pittsburgh, injuring himself but no one else. 

MENOMONIE, Wis. (AP) -- A man who was assisting a group of tubers on the Red Cedar River has died after he was found not breathing in the water. 

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A 20-year-old man accused of killing a woman in a random drive-by shooting has been found competent to stand trial in Milwaukee County.

 ROME, N.Y. (AP) -- A New York police officer who left his baby son inside a hot vehicle for hours won't face charges in the boy's death.

(ABC) -- The attackers who killed a priest at a church in France this morning were "terrorists who claimed allegiance to ISIS," French President Francois Hollande said.

   MIAMI (AP) -- The downtown Miami Police Department headquarters has been evacuated while authorities investigate a suspicious package.    

  MALIBU, Calif. (AP) -- Dr. Dre has been cited after a man says the rapper pointed a handgun at him.    The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says the man told them he was parked outside a Malibu, California, home when Dre ordered him to leave and showed a gun.    Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, told sheriff's deputies he didn't have a gun and that the man was blocking his driveway. He says the man moved his car but parked nearby. He says the m...

HOUSTON (AP) -- A Texas judge has dismissed the last remaining charge against two California anti-abortion activists who made undercover videos of themselves trying to buy fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood. District Judge Brock Thomas dismissed the charge of tampering with government records against 27-year-old David Daleiden and 63-year-old Sandra Merritt upon the request of the Harris County prosecutor's office.

A large police presence was reported in Lincoln County Tuesday morning, according to a Newsline 9 reporter in the area.