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For children in military families often times life can be a mix of heartwarming hellos and painful goodbyes.

If you were out and about Thursday afternoon, you may have heard sirens despite the sunny skies.

Holocaust educator Darryle Clott from Viterbo University joins News 8 at Five.

Before crews can start building up they have to build down. For the last few days construction workers have been inserting 90 steel piles, which are like giant poles into the ground, to prevent cave ins as they start construction.

Three years after her death, the memory of a La Crosse woman is helping raise money for an important community program.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended a Madison lawyer's license after he provided Ecstasy and alcohol to a 22-year-old woman and sexually assaulted her.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker's approval rating is at 41 percent, the lowest in the three-year history of the Marquette University Law School poll.

A man suspected of fatally shooting two people at the scene of a traffic accident that killed his 2-year-old nephew has taken his own life, Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn said Thursday.

Gov. Scott Walker has meet with business executives in northern Spain as his weeklong European trade mission is nearing an end.

Xcel Energy said the most recent incidents have been reported in La Crosse and Hudson.

A 20-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash in Eau Claire County.

A 30-year-old Rockwell woman has been given probation and must pay restitution for thefts while working at a pharmacy in Clear Lake.

Scott Walker's likely campaign for the White House is getting a boost from some former staffers, who have set up a political group able to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money.

The attorney for a 12-year-old Wisconsin girl accused of stabbing a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man has asked that her bail be reduced and she be allowed to move to a residential treatment center.

The Wisconsin State Patrol says five people were injured in a four-vehicle crash in Fond du Lac County.

Many employees of a longtime family-owned business in southeastern Wisconsin say they're astounded by the generosity of company leaders following a recent sale to a private equity firm.

A forensic psychiatrist has testified that Lou Gehrig's disease is the reason a former Dane County sheriff's deputy killed his wife and sister-in-law.

As part of Severe Weather Awareness Week, the National Weather Service held Storm Spotter training on Wednesday.

Members from the Local 479 and 379 unions launched the campaign Wednesday evening on La Crosse's south side.

Ten different organizations took part in a fundraising contest.