Wisconsin News

A Cashton mother says there were no warning signs before her 21-month-old daughter died after contracting the H1N1 flu.

An unemployed Wisconsin teen spent the first 19 years of his life as Calvin Gosz, but after selling his naming rights you can now call him Verkkokauppa Com.

A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay.Mansfield Neblett told The Associated Press in an e-mail Friday he decided to donate the triangular, bright yellow hat to the Wisconsin Historical Society.

The uncle of a Wisconsin soldier says his nephew is among the soldiers killed in the Fort Hood shootings.

One soldier from Wisconsin was killed and two others were hurt in the shooting massacre at the Fort Hood Army Base on Thursday.

Gov. Jim Doyle plans to meet with employees and company leaders at Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac.

The first snowflakes of the season have already fallen on parts of Wisconsin. As a result, the 511 Traveler Information System, a service of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, has activated its winter road condition report feature.

A comprehensive toughening of Wisconsin's notoriously weak drunken driving laws moved a step closer to becoming law Thursday with unanimous approval by the state Senate.

The state Senate has approved a bill that would create a new public financing system for state Supreme Court campaigns.

Federal agents descended on a small community on the Navajo Indian reservation early Thursday to make an arrest in the slaying of a nun whose body was found in her home on church property.

State justice officials want to hear from the public on a new rule that calls for police to collect racial data during traffic stops.

Gov. Deval Patrick is making a two-day trip to Washington focused on state economic development and health care issues.

The state Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's domestic partner registry.

Pushing for a link between student test scores and teacher pay, President Barack Obama on Wednesday dangled $5 billion in federal grants to states willing to undertake a top-to-bottom overhaul of their schools in support of the White House's priorities.

President Barack Obama's visit to Wisconsin Wednesday will be the first stop in Madison by a sitting president in over a half century.

Police in Wisconsin are investigating after finding evidence that the family of a mentally disabled man had often chained him to a pole in their basem ...

Child care providers convicted of numerous crimes, including child abuse, would be barred from participating in Wisconsin's troubled subsidy program under a bill headed to the full Legislature.

A powerful Democratic Wisconsin state lawmaker sent U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan a letter outlining concerns he has with the Race to the Top education stimulus program.

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for stealing a plane in Canada and flying over three states before landing along a dark southern Missouri highway.

Anyone renting a car in Maine would be paying the state 12.5% of their bill in excise taxes starting last month if the legislature there had its way.