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Study results were released Monday in the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at a medical meeting in Houston.

The Eau Claire County District Attorney's Office has appointed its first-ever Deputy District Attorney.

Wisconsin home sales slipped in January but median prices continued to rise.

A group that advocates for spending on transportation and other infrastructure projects says it is launching a series of radio and television ads to stop a right-to-work proposal.

The nation's governors are being told that their states will feel the impact, if the Homeland Security Department is forced to shut down because of a lack of funding at week's end.

Five people, including two 14-year-old girls, have been arrested in a hit-and-run crash that killed a Milwaukee couple.

The number of U.S. measles cases this year has risen to 154, with new cases scattered across five states, although the pace seems to have slowed.

The federal government has filed a notice of appeal of a ruling that temporarily blocked President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration.

The United States is naming its first international envoy for gay rights.

University of Wisconsin students are warning Gov. Scott Walker's budget plan would lead to fee and tuition increases.

Investigators say speed was a factor in a snowmobile crash that killed a man Sunday.

North Carolina lottery officials say a woman has come forward to present one of three winning tickets for a $564 million Powerball jackpot drawn earlier this month.

America's biggest tobacco companies are asking a federal appeals court to set aside a series of court-ordered advertisements saying they lied about the dangers of smoking.

Shoppers at the Mall of America seem undeterred after hearing about a video purportedly made by al-Qaida-linked rebels that urges Muslims to attack shopping malls.

The organizational committee for the Wisconsin state Senate has approved calling an extraordinary session to consider a right-to-work bill.

The death toll from crashes involving General Motors cars with defective ignition switches has climbed to 57.

The self-obsessed industry might have given its best picture and director prizes to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's "Birdman," a trenchant examination of actorly narcissism, but the vanity seemed to stop with the opening of the envelopes.

Drink Responsibly – What Does That Mean? will seek to increase awareness of what binge drinking is and why we should care, which is the first step toward changing our alcohol culture.

All access gates will be raised during the "fee holidays," so you won't need tickets to get in.

U.S. home sales hit a snow drift in January, plunging to the slowest pace in nine months.