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A Marathon County sheriff's captain is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the hand at a police shooting range.

A man accused of fatally beating his autistic half-brother and hiding his body has reached a plea deal with prosecutors in Dane County.

A Wisconsin-based group that advocates on behalf of atheists and agnostics says though it recently won the right to distribute its materials in Orange County public schools, it doesn't think any religious or non-religious group should be allowed to.

Outagamie County residents and officials have been working to enhance an unadorned cemetery in which residents of an Appleton mental health facility were buried.

The state Department of Health Services says it needs $760 million more over the next two-year state budget to pay for current services in the Medicaid program.

The Minnesota Vikings have placed star running back Adrian Peterson on the exempt/commissioner's permission list, a move that will require him to stay away from the team while he addresses child abuse charges.

The Eau Claire Police Department responds to several crashes on Clairemont Ave. Tuesday morning.

Governor Scott Walker was back in the Chippewa Valley Tuesday, this time, for the grand opening of a new facility.

It was just last summer that the City of Eau Claire worked with the Eau Claire Skaters Association to build a skate plaza in Lakeshore Park. Now new plans are in the works to get an even bigger park built in Eau Claire’s Boyd Park.

The child abuse case surrounding Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has brought a lot of attention to corporal punishment.

Barron Schools are seeing improvements on test results for the 2013/2014 school year. Also this spring new online testing will begin.

The new policy took effect right away on Tuesday.

Dunn County Sheriff, Dennis Smith, says it happened around 1:15 Tuesday afternoon on County Road Q, near Highway 12, in the Village of Knapp.

Government Accountability Board director Kevin Kennedy on Tuesday addressed complaints raised by state GOP director Joe Fadness that the redesigned ballot is confusing, may benefit Democratic candidates and should be redone before the Nov. 4 election.

Thousands of Wisconsin voters who requested absentee ballots will have to present copies of their photo identification to have those ballots counted.

Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen is asking a federal appeals court to stay a ruling that Indiana and Wisconsin's gay marriage bans were unconstitutional.

Civil rights advocates say they'll ask 7th Circuit Court of Appeals to re-hear their challenge to Wisconsin's voter photo identification law.

Now that he is facing a felony charge of child abuse for spanking his 4-year-old son with a wooden switch, the Minnesota Vikings star running back is facing criticism like he never has before.

When she was brought to the surface, she was coughing up water, but eventually was able to breathe normally. She was then taken to the hospital.

A Green Bay Packers charity event has brought in more than 600 winter coats to be donated to needy children.