Новости за 28.01.2016

Katie Walsh’s life was forever changed on Oct. 20, 2014.

One could say downhill skiing is in Rich Rice’s blood. With his great-grandfather’s picture hanging in the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame and Museum in Ishpeming, Mich., the birthplace …

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Education Department is not relenting on requirements to test students on math and language arts abilities, despite the end of No Child Left Behind, and it remind…

Newly released data show union membership plummeted last year as Wisconsin adopted "right to work" legislation.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri dismissed quarterback Maty Mauk from the football program Thursday after a series of missteps that included three suspensions over the past four months.

LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested a suspected thief with 38 mobile phones stuffed down his trousers.

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Joe Montana, Joe Greene and Emmitt Smith are among the 22 Pro Football Hall of Famers voted to the Super Bowl 50 Golden Team.

Good news about Viroqua continues to spread throughout worldwide social media -- on Wednesday, Jan. 27, the city was featured as one of Wisconsin's "most charming" communities by Orbitz.

The Canadian Pacific has repaired track damaged in Tuesday’s derailment in southern Minnesota and removed vegetable oil from three tank cars that remained submerged in the Mississippi River Thursday.

Wisconsin’s public school open enrollment application period, which allows parents an opportunity to send their children to any public school district in the state, runs from Feb. 1 to April 2…

The first Westby Ski Tournament was held on Thursday, Feb. 8, 1923 at the Holte farm which was located between Westby and Bloomingdale. The first ski jump scaffold was built of wood and constr…

The building on the right is the S.N. Neprud Warehouse. The building on the left is the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul & Pacific Railroad Depot. The approximate location of these two build…

Thanks to Marinella Pro for sharing her puppet theatre with our preschool story time crowd last week. The kids sure enjoyed watching the little lost mitten stretch to accommodate all the fores…

The Vernon County Historical Society has established an Honor Roll to recognize and remember individual teachers (living or deceased), as well as the many schools of Vernon County -- from the …

The Vernon County Historical Society has established an Honor Roll to recognize and remember individual teachers (living or deceased), as well as the many schools of Vernon County -- from the …

LITCHFIELD, Minn. (AP) — A Meeker County sheriff's deputy is due in court on accusations he stole prescription drugs and gifts from a holiday toy drive.

LONDON (AP) — Concerns over the state of the global economic recovery following some cautious comments from the U.S. Federal Reserve weighed on global markets on Thursday ahead of a raft of U.…

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo unleashed a wave of deadly violence targeting political opponents in a doomed attempt to cling to power after losing a…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Green Bay man is charged with fatally shooting an acquaintance in a dispute over drugs and money.

PARIS (AP) — France welcomed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Thursday with a long-term car-making agreement and pledges to boost trade now that a diplomatic deal is easing nuclear tensions.

CHICAGO (AP) — A grand jury has indicted the wife of a disgraced northern Illinois policeman who embezzled money from a youth program and then staged his own suicide to look like a homicide.

NEW DELHI (AP) — India on Thursday moved toward rebuilding its metropolitan areas as so-called smart cities by awarding 20 with funds to solve problems from shoddy sewage treatment to constant…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The NATO chief said the alliance is considering a U.S. request to provide AWACS surveillance planes to help in the fight against the Islamic State extremist organization.

CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the roadside bombing of an army convoy in the turbulent northern part of the Sinai Peninsula a day earlier that killed at le…

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Ford Motor Co.'s net income jumped to $7.4 billion last year as its U.S. sales reached their highest level in a decade.