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A "superbug" outbreak suspected in the deaths of two patients at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles has raised questions about the adequacy of the procedures for disinfecting a medical instrument used on more than a half-million people in the U.S. every year.

Ashley Furniture has formally protested the citations against it.

A government advisory committee is recommending the first real limits on added sugars, but it's backing off stricter ones for salt and cholesterol.

The FDA is warning that traces of peanuts, not listed on the label, have turned up in several shipments of the spice cumin.

A Republican state lawmaker working on reorganizing the nonpartisan board that oversees elections and ethics laws in Wisconsin says he hopes to have a proposal ready for debate by April.

A Minnesota man accused of causing the death of his 3-year-old daughter in Wisconsin has agreed to extradition.

Four highway safety groups are asking the U.S. government to require tractor-trailers and big buses to have devices that alert drivers to stopped traffic and brake the trucks if they don't respond.

Former Republican state Sen. Joe Leibham has been hired by the Wisconsin chamber of commerce to lobby the Legislature on right to work.

Jeff Gordon is backing away from the possibility of running more races after this year.

The Chippewa Falls Police Department is sending out a warning about tax season scams.

Democrats are assailing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for questioning President Barack Obama's love of country. And they're urging the potential field of Republican presidential candidates to rebuke his comments.

After consultation with state and local health officials, it is unlikely the remaining suspect measles case in Portage County will be confirmed as a positive case.

Assembly Republicans are backing off their original plan to force failing public schools to be converted into independent charter schools.

Prosecutors have charged a Green Bay man with possessing more than 7,000 images of child pornography.

White House officials say State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki will become President Barack Obama's new communications director, filling a key slot as Obama embarks on the final two years of his presidency.

Less than a week after returning from a London trade mission where he refused to answer questions about foreign policy, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has hired foreign and domestic policy advisers.

A state appeals court says a portion of a law that gives the governor the power to block new education rules is unconstitutional.

Dangerously cold weather has settled into Wisconsin where frostbite is a possibility in a matter of minutes.

A congressional hearing into reports of overmedication at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tomah will be held locally.

Gov. Scott Walker is proposing that state employees be offered $2,000 a year to opt out of state health insurance coverage.