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A local high school is showing its spirit as students send off their basketball team to the state championship.

The State Assembly has passed a bill that would end the requirement that schools teach for 180 days each year or lose state funding.

Firefighters in Chippewa Falls spent the day training on a new fire truck.

An area health department said one in three kids will die early, because they become regular smokers.

Before you go shopping for that dream dress this prom season, parents and daughters may want to watch out for scammers.

Mayor Greg Hoffman says the decision was spurred after several trains stalled on city streets back in February.

Menomonie Police say David J. Thorne was arrested in Menomonie on Wednesday for first-degree reckless homicide and delivery of a narcotic in the death of 23-year-old Jesse Jensen.

The Senate has passed a bill that requires all schools receiving public money to make a variety of test scores and other data public so performance can be compared.

A state senator pushing to undo Minnesota's restrictions on Sunday liquor store sales has claimed an incremental victory while acknowledging he probably won't get his full wish this year.

A stretch of the highway was closed for several hours after the wreck.

The state Department of Justice has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a Wisconsin law requiring abortion providers to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.

Deputies say the scammers will call elderly victims claiming they have won a sweepstakes and that they need to pay a fee to collect their winnings.

The bill Walker signed Wednesday in Pewaukee accelerates spending on 11 projects around the state thanks to an $83 million surplus in the transportation fund.

The 29-year-old mother is due back in court April 11.

The quotas represent a 5,089-fish increase over last year's declaration of 58,399.

Gov. Scott Walker made his comments to reporters Wednesday in Appleton.

The winning numbers were drawn Tuesday night, and lottery officials said Wednesday that the tickets were sold in Florida and Maryland.

It happened around midnight Wednesday on Sky Hawk Drive, which is west of Eau Claire.

The figures released Wednesday are a key benchmark, picked by Gov. Scott Walker, to measure how well he is meeting his 2010 campaign promise to add 250,000 private sector jobs by the end of next year.

Dunn County District Attorney James Peterson determined that the officers were justified in the shooting after the state Department of Justice investigated.