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Some of the area’s top young jazz musicians are gigging like the pros this weekend, performing Friday and Saturday nights at 8 p.m. in the Piggy’s Restaurant Smokin’ Blues Lounge.

LE MARS, Iowa -- An Akron, Iowa, man has admitted to killing his elderly mother, court documents say.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Republicans vying for Minnesota governor tangled Wednesday over whose vision for the state would be achievable while presiding over a government split between parties.

Caregivers and loved ones of people with Alzheimer’s disease or a related memory issue are invited to attend an educational series titled "Reconnection: When Words Alone Are Not Enough" from 3…

MADISON -- A statewide advocacy group has asked Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to investigate allegations that guards at Waupun Correctional Institution have abused inmates in the prison’s segreg…

Sometimes to build a better neighborhood you have to tear a piece of it down.

MINNEAPOLIS — Despite criticism over how the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has handled sex abuse claims involving priests, the archbishop says he will not resign.

Dump trucks are back on the road hauling dredged sand to a land restoration project in rural Nelson, Wis., after the Buffalo County Board of Adjustment approved a conditional-use zoning permit…

The Norma J. Vinger Center for Breast Care at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse is accepting nominations for the annual Paula J. Tower Memorial Award.

Accused

An ex-La Crosse police lieutenant convicted of stealing fake drugs from his department has been jailed for violating terms of his electronic monitoring.

A former Lancaster man faces more than 1,000 years in prison if convicted on 33 charges of sex crimes against children.

A Trempealeau County woman will be tried in September for killing a toddler in her care by giving the girl a combination of the prescription painkiller Oxycodone and the antihistamine Benadryl.

The Onalaska Police Department is asking for the community’s help in finding a man who walked away from a group home Tuesday.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Is the Archdiocese of Milwaukee too broke to pay its legal bills?

For 50 years of marriage, couples celebrate with gold. At 60 years, it's diamonds.

MADISON — Dry, windy conditions with spotty rain are beginning to cause soil moisture to dip in parts of the state, according to this week’s Wisconsin Crop Progress and Condition Report issued…

It seems we’ve forgotten how to kill people.

Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson is bicycling around the Badger State again promote awareness of pancreatic cancer and raise research money to fight the painful disease that killed his two…

MADISON — The Wisconsin Supreme Court will release opinions Thursday on the three biggest cases of its term.