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Bank Robberies Campaign Manitowoc Stabbing Annual Disabled Deer Hunt Sign-Up for Disabled Hunt Begins Obesity Rate on the Rise: Wisconsin 25th Study: Wisconsin has the 25th highest rate of adult obesity in the nation, at 26.0 percent and the 12th lowest of overweight youths at 27.9 percent Associated Press - July 3, 2009 3:55 PM ET MADISON, Wis.

Even in the movie industry, where people have big heads, 35 pounds is a massive coconut.

Some illegal immigrant high school graduates will be able to attend Wisconsin state universities by paying in-state tuition, under a provision in the two-year budget Gov.

The Campbellsport Board of Education has hired Dr. Judith Hoeppner as the new Eden Elementary School principal.

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Cheryl O'Brien, Wisconsin's 62nd Alice in Dairyland, will be on hand from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Sunday, June 28, at the Breakfast on the Farm event.

In a dimly lit corner of the Creation Museum stands a life-size replica of a wrecking ball labeled "Millions of Years" demolishing the facade of a brick church.

A developer that claims it lost a major contract for political reasons cannot sue the state for millions of dollars in damages, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.

Former University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee basketball standout Edward McCants, who led the Panthers to the Sweet 16 in 2005, has been sentenced to a year in jail for six misdemeanors related to a domestic abuse case.

Reflecting the diversity of its industrial base, Wisconsin has surpassed Indiana to be the leading state for manufacturing employment.

When journalist Jessica McBride penned a glowing, 5,400-word profile of Police Chief Edward A. Flynn for Milwaukee Magazine earlier this year, many in the Milwaukee Police Department jokingly dismissed it as a love letter to the chief.

It's safe to say that one of the heaviest-read stories this week in the state's largest newspaper was the one about the Milwaukee police chief's alleged affair with a woman who wrote a complimentary story about him in Milwaukee Magazine.

Nationally known Milwaukee poet John Koethe is among a stellar list of people invited to write a poem for the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's discovery of the port of New York.

As Warren Lilly tells it, the bomb that destroyed a church in his boyhood home of Birmingham, Ala., was so close it caused his house to shake.

Despite the fact that Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn has admitted to an affair, Mayor Tom Barrett backs the chief's work in the city.

On thing about Sheboygan Lutheran senior Casey Hasenstein: she really knows how to jump.

The performing arts slow down in Milwaukee in the summer, but they don't go dormant completely.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is expected to decide Wednesday whether a developer that claims it lost a major contract for political reasons can sue the state.

Kristin A. Sawotka has been teaching Hampton Elementary School kindergarteners the basics of language arts, mathematics, reading, writing, social studies and science for the past four years.

College plans: Attend the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Anticipated major: Nursing Career aspiration: Hopefully become a nurse and help make a positive difference in each patient's life.