La Crosse will see a four-way race for its 7th District seat on the La Crosse Common Council after three South Side residents filed nomination papers by Tuesday’s deadline to challenge incumbent Gary Padesky.
NEW YORK (AP) — His inauguration less than three weeks away, President-elect Donald Trump is raising new doubts about the nation's intelligence community, tweeting fresh criticism at the same people who will help inform his most sensitive decisions once he…
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Officials say a volcano on a remote island in Alaska's Aleutian chain has erupted again — briefly.
ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police on Wednesday detained at least five suspected Islamic State group militants believed to be linked to the deadly Istanbul nightclub attack, the state-run news agency reported.
There will be a primary in February.
RABAT, Morocco (AP) — Morocco has become the latest Muslim-majority country to authorize Islamic banks, amid growing market demand for Sharia-compliant banking.
Every once in a while, a little bit of the Canadian slips out of Kendra Van Leeuwen’s mouth. Usually it comes out in the form of “oh-fense” or a simple “eh.”
TOKYO (AP) — Global shares rose Wednesday as gains in the U.S. and Asian markets carried over into European trading. The Tokyo benchmark jumped in the opening day for 2017, helped by a weak yen.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is traveling to the Capitol to give congressional Democrats advice on how to combat the Republican drive to dismantle his health care overhaul. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is meeting with GOP lawmakers to discuss…
ROLESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A school resource officer in North Carolina has been placed on leave after a brief video posted online shows him picking up and slamming a female high school student to the ground.
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a city bound by tradition, every president taps a legislative affairs director to work with Congress. President-elect Donald Trump appears ready to use a legislative whip like none other: Twitter.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Jurors return to court Wednesday to begin considering whether Dylann Roof will receive the death penalty or life in prison for the 2015 massacre at a historic black church in South Carolina that left nine Bible…
PAYSON, Ariz. (AP) — Searchers in Arizona found the bodies of four members of a family Tuesday in the wreckage of a small plane that crashed on a flight from Scottsdale to Telluride, Colorado, officials said.
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Israeli military court is set to deliver the verdict in the case of a soldier tried for manslaughter for the death of a wounded Palestinian attacker.
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a 63-year-old man has been shot and killed after he came at police officers with a large knife in Brooklyn.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — With a dizzying flurry of long-range shots, the Los Angeles Lakers made Memphis look lost on defense.
SEATTLE (AP) — Dungeness crab could be harder to come by if hundreds of fishing boats remain tied up at docks from California to Washington state over a dispute between crabbers and seafood processors over the price of the sought-after…
“Good morning, Senator,” said a Capitol staffer. It took me a moment to realize the man was talking to me. That was ten years ago.
KIDAPAWAN, Philippines (AP) — More than 100 suspected Muslim rebels stormed a jail in the southern Philippines before dawn Wednesday, allowing 158 inmates to escape in what officials said was the biggest jailbreak in the country.
TORONTO (AP) — With a hockey stick and Sharpie in hand, Maple Leafs forward Mitch Marner had a simple request when approaching the stall in the far corner of Exhibition Stadium's oversized locker room.
For most NFL teams, the process of figuring out how to get better starts this week.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — After struggling for most of December, the Los Angeles Kings know they have some catching up to do. Sweeping a home-and-home from the first-place San Jose Sharks sure is a good start.
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — The two teenage sisters hid at home for most of the 2 ½ years of rule by the Islamic State group. This week, as fighting engulfed their neighborhood in the northern city of Mosul, Rusul and…
Three weeks ago, Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway sat on stage in a hotel ballroom in Washington and praised President Obama’s handling of the transition.
I have an issue with the Ben Bromley column titled "RIP, 2016: You Were Something Else" (Dec. 30 Tribune) where he talks about the entertainers that have died during this past year.