Scott Walker used officer who faked own homicide in criticizing Obama for 'anti-police rhetoric'
The officer's death is now believed to be a suicide staged to look like a homicide.
The officer's death is now believed to be a suicide staged to look like a homicide.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Seven families and a community organization are suing the state of Minnesota, saying it has failed to adequately educate poor and minority students in the Twin Cities.
WASHINGTON (AP) — After the made-for-TV news conference was done, after new Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker's name-checks of Bill Walsh, Bill Russell, Nelson Mandela, Stevie Wonder an…
The Vernon County Board of Supervisors passed the county's projected $17.4 million 2016 budget on a 20-7 vote, Tuesday, Nov. 4, in Viroqua.
SPARTA — The 2016 Monroe County budget was approved overwhelmingly at Wednesday’s annual county board budget meeting at the Rolling Hills Nursing Complex.
S&S Cycle intends to expand both its La Crosse and Viola operations, adding almost 100 new jobs between the two sites, if it can secure state and La Crosse County assistance for the nearly…
It was a bucket list item, so there was no turning back. That’s the way it was, period. Besides, it was seven years in the making and thousands of lonely highway miles driven at all times of t…
FOX LAKE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the wife and son of an Illinois police officer who they say killed himself after embezzling money for years from a department youth program …
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Efforts to unionize graduate students at private universities are gaining momentum as the National Labor Relations Board shows new openness to arguments that they are n…
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — In a story Nov. 4 about the death of former U.S. Rep. Howard Coble, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Coble won his initial 1984 congressional race by 79 vote…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Wounded Taliban fighters were being treated in a Doctors Without Borders hospital in northern Afghanistan that was bombed by U.S. forces last month, but there were no…
MERCED, Calif. (AP) — The latest on the stabbings on the University of California, Merced, campus (all times local):
MALE, Maldives (AP) — Maldives' Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to impeach the country's vice president, who will be charged with terrorism for plotting to kill the president, a mi…
No. 2 Baylor (7-0, 4-0 Big 12, No. 6 CFP) at Kansas State (3-4, 0-4), 6:30 p.m. CT (FS1)
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister David Cameron declared Thursday it was "more likely than not" that a bomb brought down a Metrojet flight packed with Russian vacationers — a scenario that …
BERLIN (AP) — German factory orders dropped sharply in September, falling for the third straight month in a sign of weakness for Europe's largest economy.
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Pfizer, the biggest U.S.-based drugmaker, is increasing its financial assistance to patients, doubling the allowable income level for people to receive dozens of Pfizer me…
BAXTER, Minn. (AP) — The parents of an infant girl who died in a home day care are defending the care provider who has temporarily been shut down by state regulators.
Adidas announced an initiative Thursday to help high schools nationwide drop Native American mascots.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a four-story factory building in eastern Pakistan rose to 20 on Thursday, as rescuers with cranes and construction equipment continu…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A 5-year-old boy who went missing from his home in Alabama 13 years ago has been found unharmed as a young man living with his father in Ohio, thanks in part to red fla…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Metro says orange and silver line trains will soon begin stopping again at a station in Washington where a fire destroyed a power substation.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A judge has dismissed murder charges against a former Ivy League student accused of shooting his business executive father inside the family's western New York home.
PARIS (AP) — In a prelude to this month's Davis Cup final, Andy Murray routed David Goffin 6-1, 6-0 Thursday to reach the quarterfinals at the Paris Masters while top-ranked Novak Djokovic adv…
LONDON (AP) — The prospect of an interest rate increase in the U.K. has gotten pushed back further, possibly even to 2017, to the likely relief of homeowners and grief of savers.