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New campaign finance reports show Wisconsin Supreme Court hopeful James Daley made a major push to boost his cash over the last month.

A local construction company is the latest donor to the Confluence Arts Center.

A study from the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance says the state's mandated inflated pay rates on public projects cost taxpayers more than $200 million in 2014.

Wisconsin senior Frank Kaminsky is a unanimous selection for the 2014-15 AP All-America team while Duke freshman Jahlil Okafor received all but one first-team vote.

The bill's chief author is Rep. Tyler August, a Lake Geneva Republican.

After years of investigative work, authorities in Fond du Lac County have finally filed a murder charge in the death of a young Sturtevant woman whose body was found in a ditch about a month after she disappeared.

Police in Minneapolis say a missing University of Minnesota student for three days went into the Mississippi River, and they're starting a water recovery effort.

A senior U.S. official says preliminary reports from the scene at Fort Meade, Md., indicate one person is dead after a car with two people tried to ram a gate at the base.

States have named official sandwiches, insects, dances, soil, beans and bugs. This year, there are proposals to name an official hostess in Alaska and an official legendary creature, the jackalope, in Wyoming.

More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in February, evidence that the spring buying season could open strong after sluggish sales for much of the winter.

The young trooper killed in a confrontation with a bank robbery suspect in Fond du Lac is being laid to rest.

Firefighters are calling a home in Southeast Wisconsin uninhabitable, after animal welfare workers removed more than 300 chinchillas from the house.

Alcohol is believed to be a factor in a crash early Monday that sent a Westby woman to the hospital.

The U.S. House and Senate will hold a joint field hearing Monday in Tomah, to further investigate what exactly happened at the VA Clinic when it comes to over-prescribing painkillers.

Crews respond to a fatal accident Sunday in Saint Croix County.

The Arts Center portion of the Confluence Project is set to receive a major contribution Monday.

This time of year, things get busy for workers at the Beaver Creek Reserve in Fall Creek. Although tap lines have been continuously flowing, the recent warm temperatures were a concern for production.

Crews are working to clean up the site of a train derailment in Chippewa County. It happened just north of Highway 64.

On Sunday, March 29th, 2015 at 1:07am, the Pierce County Sheriff's Office was notified of a shed fire in Ellsworth Township.

A 21-year-old Wisconsin state trooper killed in a shootout with a bank robbery suspect is being remembered in his hometown.