Новости за 20.01.2016

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In a season that began with Tennessee looking to reclaim its status as one of the nation's elite women's basketball teams, the Lady Volunteers instead are going backward.

Gawlik, senior associate athletic director for sports administration at UW, will begin her role as 2016-17 chairperson on Sept. 1.

A third candidate has emerged in the race for city of Tomah mayor.

Andre Agassi says match-fixing in tennis "never even made my radar" while he was on tour.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin residents and immigrants packed a hearing Wednesday to speak against a bill aimed at preventing so-called sanctuary cities for immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

Dow Chemical is fattening the paid leave it gives employees after the birth of a child as it becomes the latest major U.S. employer to rethink how it treats parents.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's state oil company is shutting down two of the country's four refineries because militant attacks on pipelines have affected their supplies.

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — In the couple of hours before Morgan Stanley chief James Gorman sat down Wednesday to speak on a panel in Davos, Switzerland, he had lost some $600,000 on the value o…

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Two defendants are set to go on trial in a large coupon fraud case nearly nine years after a grand jury indicted the nation's biggest coupon processor and nearly a dozen people.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Spending on air traffic control operations has doubled over two decades, while productivity has declined substantially and efforts to improve performance have been ineffectiv…

NEW YORK (AP) — Christmas ornaments sold on home shopping network QVC are being recalled after customers said they cut themselves on the aluminum ornaments and needed stitches.

The aroma of steaming lutefisk brought taste buds to watery attention at the Viroqua Eagles Club, Wednesday.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Target Corp. has announced that it's transitioning to 100 percent cage-free shell eggs by 2025.

The NFL has its final four, and the oddsmakers are forecasting tight games.

Nass said in his release that Assembly Republican leaders have made clear they wouldn't accept Senate changes to the bill.

NEW YORK (AP) — Most of Wal-Mart's U.S. employees will get raises as part of the world's largest retailer's previously announced commitment to invest in its workforce.

Wisconsin lawmakers are starting to pay attention to the controversy surrounding the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association's sportsmanship guidelines that brought national criticism l…

Onalaska brought the pressure and made life miserable for the Tomah High School boys basketball team Tuesday.

Not many high school girls basketball teams could have beaten Onalaska Tuesday.

A Sparta man has been charged following an alleged domestic disturbance where he held a woman at his house and she was injured after falling down a stairway.

DEFOREST, Wis. — Adults caught up in the coloring book craze now have new and more social ways to participate: through libraries and meetup groups.

BERLIN (AP) — A 25-year-old German has gone on trial accused of having been part of the Islamic State group's secret police.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Ukrainian official is disputing a claim by the Polish prime minister that Poland has taken in 1 million Ukrainian refugees, adding a new element into the debate over re…

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's state-run news agency and opposition activists say some 500 displaced families have returned to their homes in a neighborhood on the southwestern edge of Damascus.

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Hundreds of protesters broke through police lines on Wednesday to get into Moldova's Parliament after it approved a new government to end months of deadlock between th…