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A psychiatrist has testified that a Wisconsin girl accused of trying to kill a classmate to please a fictitious horror character has schizophrenia that is getting worse and that intervention is the best way to mitigate the symptoms.

A Fond du Lac restaurant apologized to local firefighters after demanding they pay for food they ordered before they were sent to fires that kept them working for 24 hours.

Republican leaders in the state Assembly are squabbling publicly with their Republican colleague in the Senate who is co-chair of the budget-writing committee.

The House has revived President Barack Obama's embattled trade agenda. But a potentially tough Senate battle awaits.

Patrick Buswell, 40, appeared through video conference in Chippewa County Court Thursday morning.

A Department of Veterans Affairs investigation has found practitioners acted appropriately when treating a 74-year-old veteran who died at the VA Medical Center in Tomah.

The governor of the Diffa region in Niger says that an attack by the extremist group Boko Haram based in neighboring Nigeria has killed 40 people in two villages.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials are recruiting "citizen scientists" to gather field data to help better predict when millions of the mayflies will swarm the banks of the Mississippi River.

Warning sirens could be heard across Eau Claire just before 10 a.m. on Thursday.

Two vehicles were towed away after a crash in Eau Claire Thursday morning.

The state Supreme Court says a newspaper isn't entitled to attorney fees in an open records dispute.

Representatives from the association toured the Eau Claire Soccer Park at the end of May.

The new federal rule, approved by the White House budget office, takes effect Friday.

Stepping closer to an all-but-inevitable White House bid, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has created a "testing the waters" committee that allows him to raise money for a presidential campaign.

Eau Claire police have shut down Carson Park Drive and are asking people to avoid the area.

Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen says the suspect in a shooting that killed nine people was at a historic black church attending a meeting and stayed for almost an hour before gunfire erupted.

Pope Francis' much-anticipated encyclical on the environment has now been launched. With it he's trying to recast the environmental debate in moral terms and indicts big business and climate doubters in the process.

Since opening its doors in 2013, the veterans home has been at or near its 72-bed capacity. The high demand means the home has started a waiting list.

An annual dinner, nearly 50 years running, celebrates the contributions local farmers make to the economy every day.

National Weather Service will conduct a damage survey in Amery for a possible tornado touchdown after storm late Wednesday afternoon.