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The Vernon County Sheriff’s Office will host 5-K-9 Run/ Walk and Kids Fun Run to benefit the K-9 Unit.

An appeals court says a man was properly convicted of videotaping a sexual encounter with a naked prostitute.

A Fremont woman is charged with fatally stabbing her boyfriend.

Bomb technicians have deactivated a homemade pipe bomb discovered in a village in St. Croix County.

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Two network journalists said there are distinct differences between covering the police shooting deaths of Tony Robinson and Michael Brown, most noticeably how leaders initially responded to the police shootings.

A Silver Alert has been issued for a Green Bay man who was last seen at noon on Tuesday.

Authorities say they responded to a call on Monday from neighbors who said they were worried about the baby.

A total of three different complaints were filed Tuesday.

The school's show choirs and jazz band hosted a "Show of Support" benefit concert at the high school.

The money raised is used to help with training and competition costs for area athletes.

The lawsuit is seeking a temporary injunction to prevent the law from being enforced.

UW-La Crosse is getting its students updated on some possible changes coming to the university.

Neighborhood Response Officers have been in two La Crosse neighborhoods for more than a year now and they're proving to have a big impact in those areas of the city.

The DNR gave BNSF the go-ahead last month, but a group of locals said the permit approval process was not thorough enough.

The first review of prescription practices is complete at the Tomah VA medical center almost two months after allegations of over-prescribing opiates at the facility first surfaced.

A clinical review team from the VHA found “unsafe clinical practices” and “an apparent culture of fear” at the Tomah VA Medical Center.

University of Wisconsin Police said about 600 of more than 1,000 bikes found in a theft investigation were stolen.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is acknowledging that a whistleblower's complaints about problems at Tomah's Veterans Affairs medical center never got to an oversight committee as promised.

No one was injured in a fire that appears to have destroyed a pole shed in the Township of Albion in Jackson County Monday night.