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Panamanian authorities and family members say a Wisconsin teenager died on a church mission trip to Panama this week. The body of 16-year-old Malachi Taylor, of Beloit, was found on the beach in the town of Las Lajas on Thursday evening after a search that lasted nearly two days. The regional civil defense director in Chiriqui province, Francisco Santamaria, says the youth was participating in a religious mission in the community of Potrerillos, but had a day off and went to the bea...

DETROIT (AP) -- A festival and concert will be held along the Detroit riverfront to support positive interaction between the city's youth and its police department.

The sweltering heat can be dangerous inside a vehicle.

President Obama signed the Jason Simcakoski Memorial Opioid Safety act into law Friday.

A 14-year-old girl has died and a woman was hospitalized in critical condition after lightning struck the personal watercraft they were riding across a reservoir straddling the Utah-Wyoming border, authorities said.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Clinton says in a text message to supporters that she's picked Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine to join her on the Democratic ticket as their party's nominee for vice president. 

The temperature peaked at 90 degrees in Wausau on Friday, but construction crews continued to work on the Stewart Avenue project.

 A blood clot prevented Melvin Glocke from getting sent to Normandy, and now the uniform he was supposed to wear that day is on display at The Shabby Shack in Pelican Lake. 

Around 80 paddlers from all over the world came together Friday at Whitewater Park in Downtown Wausau for the Open Canoe Nationals.  

With scorching temperatures around the area on Friday, people on medication could be at a greater risk of suffering from heat exhaustion, or even heat stroke.  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill aimed at curbing the abuse of heroin and opioid drugs. 

State attorneys have asked a federal judge to stay a ruling allowing people to vote without photo identification pending an appeal.

Cooling centers are open throughout Central Wisconsin to help citizens beat the heat.

The latest numbers in area power outages

Roads flooded in Madison and Middleton are now open.

A North Miami police commander has been suspended for allegedly fabricating information about the shooting of an unarmed black therapist.

Seven Mayan ancient artifacts will be heading to Guatemala after a representative of a longtime antiquities collector who was unsure of their origin turned them over to the FBI, which determined they were taken from the country illegally decades ago.

Advocates for autistic people hope this week's police shooting that involved an autistic man will lead to more training for officers so they can learn how to diffuse such situations.

Louisiana officials have agreed not to enforce several new restrictions on abortion pending a judge's decision on whether to block the laws.

A man who pleaded guilty to his role in the death of a woman buried alive in a shallow New Jersey grave has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.