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Three people are facing numerous drug charges after deputies found narcotics and marijuana in a car and at a home in Barron County.

The school announced Tuesday it had hired the former Michigan star quarterback, just two days after he left his job at coach of the San Francisco 49ers.

The first 50-state report on the latest sign-up season under President Barack Obama's health care law shows more than 4 million people signed up for the first time or re-enrolled.

A woman accused of fatally stabbing a Randolph man is being held on $500,000 bond in Dodge County.

The state Supreme Court says manure qualifies as a pollutant as defined in an insurance policy.

The city of Duluth says some of the video taken by police body cameras should be kept private. But, the state says no.

All year long you have been submitting amazing weather photos that truly show the beauty of Western Wisconsin and other parts of the Badger State. Now, with 2014 drawing to a close WEAU put together a compilation of some of the year's best.

Jeremy Wilcox, 39, of Wausau, was seen during the FOX broadcast of the Packers-Lions game when Aaron Rodgers tugged his beard.

A report says the number of law-enforcement officers killed by firearms jumped by 56 percent this year and included 15 ambush deaths. But gun-related police deaths still remain far below historic highs.

Prosecutors in Italy say they fear more bodies will be found aboard the crippled Greek ferry Norman Atlantic, adrift for the third day after a fire broke out on a car deck, with 10 people killed in the ensuing chaos.

Six bodies and debris seen floating in Indonesian waters have painfully ended the mystery of AirAsia Flight 8501, which crashed into the Java Sea with 162 people aboard and was lost to searchers for more than two days.

Milwaukee County officials are planning to release more than 227,000 pages of emails and other documents related to a probe of Gov. Scott Walker's aides and associates when he was county executive.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said deer donations are at an all-time low at local food pantries. The agency said donations are down by 40 percent from last year to this year.

The sledding hill at Pinehurst is now open for use, but the ice rink will remain closed.

Counties including Buffalo, Trempealeau, Jackson and Vernon have seen as much as a nearly 24% increase compared to last year.

The debate over funding Wisconsin schools could heat up early next year, as state budget discussions are set to begin.

Gov. Scott Walker discussed the topics during an interview on Monday.

Securing the NFC North title and first-round bye earned the Green Bay Packers a few days off from coach Mike McCarthy. They're on their own to celebrate the new year before returning to practice Friday.

Tuesday will mark one week since the 90-year-old George H.W. Bush, the nation's oldest living former president, was taken by ambulance to Houston's Methodist Hospital to address shortness of breath.

Chris Schoenherr has decided to leave his job as deputy secretary in Gov. Scott Walker's Department of Administration next month.