Wisconsin’s birth rate declined in the past decade, and the national birth rate hit a record low last year, causing some to worry about workforce and economic instability while others applaud a dramatic drop in births to teens.
NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar-nominated actor Stanley Tucci is leading an audio production inspired in part by Paulo Coelho's "The Alchemist."
TREMONT, Maine (AP) — Maine firefighters say they had to rescue a New York couple who took a wrong turn and mistakenly drove into the Atlantic Ocean.
Linda Lavin says she began reading the script for a new show called "9JKL" and halfway through she knew she was going to have a good time.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan State Police says an internal investigation will determine whether the agency's director will be disciplined for sharing a Facebook post that called some NFL players "anti-American degenerates."
LONDON (AP) — Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has a message for the world's central bankers: Don't be Luddites.
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The death toll from the Sept. 19 earthquake in central Mexico has continued to inch upward more than a week later and now stands at 345.
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The Latest on developments in Iraq (all times local):
Hansen's IGA announced Thursday that they have purchased the Gordy's Market in Black River Falls on Hwy. A, and that they have plans to retain all employees at the location.
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's interior ministry has asked the country's elections overseeing body to ban from politics a new party backed by Islamist Hafiz Saeed, who carries a $10 million U.S. bounty on his head for alleged involvement in 2008…
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on Catalonia's plans to hold a referendum Sunday on breaking away from Spain (all times local):
NEW YORK (AP) — Beyonce has released a surprise single on which she sings in Spanish, English and French to raise relief money for those affected by hurricanes in the Caribbean and earthquakes in Mexico.
CINCINNATI (AP) — White nationalist Richard Spencer is asking to speak at the University of Cincinnati after Ohio State University and other colleges have rejected similar requests.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities in Louisiana say a man accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend, fatally shooting her parents and then torching their home has apparently hanged himself.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — O.J. Simpson's attorney says he expects the former football star and actor to be released from a Nevada prison "a few days" after Sunday, the first eligible date for Simpson to be paroled under a decision…
CHIDZA, Zimbabwe (AP) — With headlamps to peer through the darkness, children in rural Chidza village in central Zimbabwe scamper through the night to trap mice, which they roast and sell to motorists on the road to neighboring South Africa.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Twin Cities heroin dealer has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for the overdose deaths of two men and still faces murder charges in the drugs deaths of three others.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers barely boosted their spending in August, a sign that overall economic activity could be weaker this quarter.
NEW YORK (AP) — Journalist Richard Pyle, whose long and accomplished Associated Press career spanned the globe and a half-century of crisis, war, catastrophe and indelible moments in news reporting, died at age 83.
WASHINGTON (AP) — US consumer spending up modest 0.1 percent in August, with incomes up 0.2 percent.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An international human rights group says Rwanda's authorities have arrested, forcibly disappeared, and threatened political opponents since the August 2017 presidential elections.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump will take an extensive five-nation trip to the Asia Pacific region in November as the U.S. seeks to address North Korea's growing threat.
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Cedar Rapids police say they've charged a man for slaying in a store parking lot.
TOKYO (AP) — Global stocks were mostly higher on Friday, the last day of the quarter, as investors gained confidence from a record close on Wall Street the day before.
JOHNSTON, Iowa (AP) — Police have arrested a suburban Des Moines mother who left her four children home alone while she traveled to Europe.