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An Eau Claire couple is charged after police say they found drug paraphernalia and stolen items in their home.

Federal health regulators have approved a second vaccine to prevent a strain of bacteria that can cause deadly cases of meningitis.

Crews have begun installing traffic signals at one of the intersections on Brackett Avenue.

The Supreme Court is stepping into the issue of lethal injection executions for the first time since 2008 in an appeal filed by death row inmates in Oklahoma.

New nonpartisan projections show Wisconsin is on track to finish the current fiscal year with a larger shortfall than Gov. Scott Walker's administration anticipated.

A semi blocked traffic in Eau Claire today after it got stuck in a median.

Gordy's County Market held ribbon cutting ceremonies for three new stores today.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison has closed a controversial cat research lab.

Apparently, airline passengers aren't buying enough garden gnomes, superhero pajamas and heated cat shelters. SkyMall has filed for bankruptcy.

A new data table from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) ranks Wisconsin’s high school graduation rate among the top states in the nation for three consecutive years.

On Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court rejected Bill Marquardt's appeal to have his Florida murder convictions overturned.

A three-judge panel in North Carolina has ruled that a 70-year-old man was wrongly convicted in the stabbing deaths of a mother and daughter nearly four decades ago.

The Obama administration is reversing itself after an outcry over consumer privacy on HealthCare.gov, the government's health insurance website.

Gov. Scott Walker is fine-tuning his message heading into a busy weekend where he will rub shoulders with other potential 2016 presidential candidates speaking to conservatives in Iowa and at a Koch brothers event in California.

A new survey shows that smoking rates among Minnesota's 18-24 population has plunged since 2010.

A U.S. Army report says Fort Hood did not have a system in place that could have anticipated a deadly rampage last April that left four soldiers dead and 16 wounded.

Gov. Scott Walker says he's just trying to give schools more opportunities to find teachers in high-demand areas with his new proposal to create an alternative track for people with real-life experience to get licensed to teach.

Gov. Scott Walker is telling Wisconsin public school district administrators that he does not support sanctions included in a Republican proposal targeting failing schools.

The Menominee Indian Tribe is expressing disappointment over Gov. Scott Walker's decision against a proposed casino in Kenosha.

Authorities say five people have been stabbed at a duplex on Milwaukee's west side, including two who died.