Новости за 11.12.2015

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will consider the rights of businesses and landowners that the Army Corps of Engineers has determined are subject to the federal Clean Water Act.

CHICAGO (AP) — Grain futures were lower Friday on the Chicago Board of Trade.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker opposes Donald Trump's call to ban Muslims from entering the United States, but he won't say whether he'd refuse to back the billionaire real estate mogu…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Cheese curds, fish fry and open-faced prime rib sandwiches are now available at a supper club-themed concession stand at the Kohl Center.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's juvenile prisons under a broadening investigation over allegations that guards were abusing inmates are safe now that personnel and policy changes have been ma…

A line of leaf blowers with a motor that can catch fire are among this week's recalled consumer products. Others include LED lamps that pose a shock hazard if they get wet.

LE BOURGET, France (AP) — Two sets of reality are clashing as climate talks go into overtime: Diplomatic real politics and hard science.

FARRAGUT, Iowa (AP) — The superintendent of a troubled Iowa school district has resigned, saying he no longer has a role to play after the state's Board of Education stripped away the district…

As of October 2015 the unemployment rate in Monroe County is 3.5 percent.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin President Ray Cross is expected to meet with students demanding more measures to recognize diversity on campus.

Tomah Area School District teachers won permission to use a different learning management system, at least until a new Tomah School Board committee comes up with a permanent plan.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Corrections said Friday it has ordered body cameras to be worn by security staff at two juvenile prisons that are at the center of a widening i…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — John "Hot Rod" Williams, a popular sixth man with the Cleveland Cavaliers from 1986 to 1995, has died. He was 53.

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Yeti is back — just in time for another winter.

MADISON — The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has approved a resolution affirming the system's commitment to free speech.

LONDON (AP) — A Dutch man who set up a fake ambulance company to smuggle huge amounts of heroin and cocaine into Britain was sentenced Friday to 24 years in prison.

WASHINGTON (AP) — There has yet to be a confirmed U.S. collision between a drone and a manned aircraft, but there's a growing number of close calls as drones fly where they least belong — near…

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A "serial rapist with a badge" who now faces many years in prison for raping black women on his beat was caught because of the courageous actions of a grandmother who he p…

LAKEVILLE, Minn. (AP) — Four teenagers who were in a pickup that crashed, killing two of them, had played a game with Nerf guns at school, but Dakota County sheriff's officials said Friday the…

SPARTA - A Monroe County jury Wednesday convicted a Sparta man accused as the "getaway driver" in the June 11 armed robbery of the Wayside Tavern in Sparta.

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Long Island police officer who was recorded punching and kicking a man during a traffic stop was acquitted of all charges Friday.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — University of Wisconsin System leaders approved a resolution Friday affirming free speech and academic freedom, joining colleges across the country that have officially pr…

Prosecutors have charged a Warrens man in the death of his 3-month-old son.

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) — The Bloomington School District notified parents of an attempted abduction of a girl walking home from her bus stop. But, when police investigated they determined an …

Criminal charges are pending against a man bitten by a police dog after he tried to hide in a crawlspace, according to Sparta police.