The first time I covered Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) he was enjoying the raucous cheers of liberal college students. It was 2001, and McCain and Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.)-the anti-war Sam Gamgee to McCain's Frodo Baggins-were on a stumping tour ...

CRANDON, Wis. - Wrecking crews are demolishing the northern Wisconsin home where six young people died in a shooting rampage by an off-duty deputy sheriff. The demolition of the white, two-story house just off downtown Crandon began about 5 this ...

Jenni McCool, left, and her husband, Sol Simon, of Fountain City, Wis., paddle towards Levee Park in Winona, Minn., early Thursday morning. McCool was headed to work at Big River magazine and Simon was going grocery shopping before heading back ...

MAUSTON, Wis. - Someone continued to write checks on an account belonging to a 90-year-old woman whose remains were found on the toilet in a Necedah home two months after she died, according to court documents released Monday. Prosecutors say Tammy ...

BARABOO, Wis. -- Authorities said that investors lost $1.3 million after they followed the bad advice of a former Baraboo investment adviser. They have charged Royce Raymond, 44, with making false statements to investors in February and March 2005 ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. - With general manager Ted Thompson preferring to view the NFL draft as a long-term investment rather than as a way to immediately fill holes in the roster, the Green Bay Packers ' early-round picks have often spent more time on the ...

BARRON, Wis. - A judge has ordered a Phillips woman to serve a year in jail and placed her on 15 years' probation on accusations she set her house on fire for insurance money to cover debts. Thirty-nine-year-old Jane Dettmering was also ordered ...