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Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say prosecutors shouldn't be allowed to argue that targeting the crowded athletic event is a factor a jury should consider when weighing the death penalty.

The university's sports teams will begin competing in UMAC in the 2015-16 season.

This week, the board in the School District of Altoona decided to move the last day of class for the school year to June 11.

The latest deal was announced Wednesday.

Russia has had about 40,000 troops positioned on Ukraine's border for several weeks.

He's a veteran with more than 30 years of coaching experience in the NFL and college.

Members of the Rural Schools Task Force said at a news conference Wednesday that the final report doesn't address declining enrollment and flaws in the state funding formula.

Organizers will make their presentation to team owners May 20, and will learn that day whether they got the bid.

The district sent a text to parents saying it "experienced a delicate issue this morning," and that "Students are safe and back in class."

Health insurance companies are telling Congress that more than 80 percent of people who've signed up under the new health care law have gone on to pay their premiums.

A driver who had texted minutes before striking and killing an elderly woman in a crosswalk will avoid incarceration if he complies with his sentencing conditions.

An inmate convicted of attacking two corrections officers as they searched his cell has been sentenced to an additional six years in prison.

A judge on Tuesday issued an injunction ordering a stop to the investigation that has shadowed Walker as he runs for a second term with an eye toward national office.

The covers came from the late collector Jerry Gottleib, who from 1964 to 1974 sent a copy of the covers to the people featured on them for autographs.

The state Department of Natural Resources is looking for landowners willing to host a gun deer hunt for disabled people.

A pilot is recovering from injuries suffered when his single-engine plane crashed into a farm field near Crivitz.

Waitress Amanda Peppler says she heard the glass shatter and thought it was a gunshot, then saw the deer appear out of nowhere.

Find out how you can enjoy a live stream of falcons in Wisconsin.

After news last week about a police officer turned babysitter facing sexual assault charges, a childcare experts weighs in on hiring a babysitter.

Festivities continued Tuesday for the Annual Bowl for Kids Sake event to help raise money for Big Brothers, Big Sisters of Northwestern Wisconsin.