IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — More than 10 percent of Iowa firefighters were granted national certifications over a four-year period despite failing exams at a state academy, authorities said Wednesday, as hundreds more were notified of the testing errors.
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker said Wednesday that he plans to provide additional law enforcement intelligence and staffing to a Jewish community center in suburban Milwaukee that has been threatened three times in the past six weeks.
ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta Falcons have tendered four restricted free agents, including starting safety Ricardo Allen and wide receiver Taylor Gabriel, who was a surprise breakout star in 2016.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new analysis shows most Wisconsin taxpayers would see a $44 reduction in their income taxes under Gov. Scott Walker's budget.
SPINDALE, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a North Carolina district attorney calling for investigation into his prosecutors after an AP story (all times local):
Prosecutors charged a Holmen man with stabbing a couple early Feb. 26 in Trempealeau County.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan plans to keep adding resources "until we have a breakthrough."
NEW HOPE, Minn. (AP) — Two police officers are suing the owner of a Minnesota gun store, alleging the shop sold a gun through a third party to a man who shot at them at New Hope City Hall.
Brian Hoyer will not return to the Bears in 2017. Instead, he will reunite with Kyle Shanahan and sign with the 49ers, NFL Network first reported.According to ESPN’s Adam Caplan, Hoyer will sign a multi-year deal with the QB-needy 49ers.Last…
BURLINGTON, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man who told a judge to skip the lecture has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for scalping his girlfriend and ordering his pit bull to attack her.
South Dakota's Republican governor isn't saying whether he'll sign a measure aimed at protecting faith-based organizations that refuse to place children with gay couples or other arrangements contrary to their religious beliefs.
NEW YORK (AP) — An undercover cop in New York City bought 217 assault weapons, tommy guns and handguns, dismantling a trafficking ring that exploited Virginia's looser gun laws and sent sellers north on buses with bags full of weapons,…
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Yoan Moncada is getting used to life with the Chicago White Sox after being acquired in the trade that sent Chris Sale to Boston.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new $75 million state crime lab and law enforcement center in the Milwaukee area and a 19th century-style brewery and beer garden at the Old World Wisconsin historic site were among the projects that won…
MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — The antiquities museum in the Iraqi city of Mosul is in ruins. Piles of rubble fill exhibition halls and a massive fire in the building's basement has reduced hundreds of rare books and manuscripts to ankle-deep…
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States must see "some sort of positive action" from North Korea before it can take Kim Jong Un's regime seriously and discuss ways to reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley…
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee man who acknowledges aggressively contacting U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson's office — including calling 83 times in one day — has received a "cease and desist" warning.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is set to vote on a $578 billion spending bill that keeps the U.S. armed forces operating through September and sets the stage for substantial increases to the Pentagon's budget advocated by President Donald Trump.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks raised the prospect Wednesday of sharing sensitive details it uncovered about CIA hacking tools with leading technology companies whose flagship products and services were targeted by the U.S. government's hacker-spies.
The Crusaders will face Wrightstown in a WIAA Division 3 semifinal on Thursday afternoon.
In case there are any doubts, the La Crosse County Board plans to make it official that it will use the proceeds of a new sales tax just for road work and will share 25 percent of the tax money…
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Republican governors complain that a GOP proposal to replace former President Barack Obama's health care law would force millions of lower-income earners off insurance rolls or stick states with the cost of keeping them covered.
NEW YORK (AP) — Energy companies are pulling U.S. stocks lower Wednesday as the price of oil takes its biggest tumble in more than a year after the government reported a big buildup in fuel stockpiles. A survey of private…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A freakishly balmy February broke more than 11,700 local daily records for warmth in the United States, but it didn't quite beat 1954 for the warmest February on record, climate scientists said.