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The number of babies born in Wisconsin has dropped for the sixth straight year.

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is giving up on finding a way to get a voter photo identification law in place for the Nov. 4 election.

At least 69,000 absentee ballots have been issued to voters in Wisconsin in advance of the Nov. 4 election.

A sand mining company has agreed to pay the state and Trempealeau County $80,000 to settle allegations of storm water permit violations.

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke plans to cast her ballot early on Tuesday in Madison.

The state patrol says it happened Friday morning near Osseo.

Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who was hired by GM to compensate victims, updated the totals Monday.

Republicans are accusing Democratic attorney general hopeful Susan Happ of letting a pipe bomb builder get off scot-free.

Wisconsin officials are poised to close a fourth wolf hunting zone.

Minnesota Democrats are calling on Hillary Rodham Clinton to help build enthusiasm among their voters as re-election bids of Gov. Mark Dayton and Sen. Al Franken near their conclusion.

Texas health officials say 120 people are still being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people who got the disease in Dallas.

Supporters of Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke are trying to capitalize on a two-week early voting period, holding rallies and other events to get supporters to the polls.

It happened about three miles east of the Osseo exit.

Police have arrested nine people following an undercover operation targeting sex trafficking and exploitation of children.

Fire crews were called to a house fire early Monday morning in La Crosse.

An 80-year-old Wisconsin man is riding his bicycle across 16 counties in the state to raise awareness about a proposed Enbridge Energy oil pipeline and call for greater transparency around the project.

A Wisconsin couple has been sentenced to five years in prison after Clayton County authorities discovered a methamphetamine manufacturing operation at their Iowa home.

Voters hoping to avoid lines at the polls Election Day can cast their ballots early.

A Wisconsin-based dairy company is eliminating manure storage lagoons from the former Vreba-Hoff dairies it bought last year in southeastern Michigan.

A Wisconsin man has been arrested for allegedly urinating on a marked Madison Police Department squad car.