On a sunny November day in 2018, hundreds of Wisconsin Army National Guard members crowded into the atrium at Green Bay’s Lambeau Field. The soldiers would soon deploy to Afghanistan as “guardian angels,” providing security for U.S. and Afghan forces. Commanders and public officials took turns at the podium to wish them well.

Several times on their journey to the United States from Ecuador, the family almost lost one of their own. While crossing a treacherous 60-mile stretch of rainforest, rivers and mountains between Columbia and Panama called the Darien Gap, the father almos

More than 50 years after two Buffalo civil rights activists say they were framed by police for selling drugs, their supporters are calling on the Erie County District Attorney’s Office to vacate their convictions.

Mitchell Cremer always tried to make his younger sister's birthday special. A few years ago, Cremer and his sister, Maddie Neely, spent her birthday at High Cliff State Park, biking on the trails and eating sandwiches from Subway. Cremer died June 11, 2020, from a drug overdose at age 28. The day before he died, he was in a hospital, where Narcan was used to revived him from an overdose.

Bandit has come a long way since the summer, Albert said, when he was deemed a “dangerous dog” by a Lancaster judge and sent to live out the rest of his life at the Genesee County rescue center.

While the Bangladeshi community grieved Ratin – the third man from the community shot to death this year – they also called for justice. Cheektowaga Police have not released much information about the incident that led to Ratin’s death.

It's easy to get caught up in the stats and numbers of the pandemic. Since late summer, the virus' spread through Wisconsin has accelerated, from hundreds of new cases per day to thousands. Deaths have followed the tide of new cases — up from a half-dozen a day in mid-September to more than 50 now.

APPLETON - About three months after hundreds of people gathered in downtown Appleton to protest the death of George Floyd, Outagamie County prosecutors charged two Black men with threatening police officers during those rallies. Activists assert the charges against the men are the Appleton Police Department's attempt to silence free speech in opposition of police and scare people from protesting law enforcement.

Delilah McKinney is scheduled to be released from the Robert E. Ellsworth Correctional Center, where she is serving time for theft and drug possession, in about a month. Her boyfriend, Steven Erato, is concerned she could contract COVID-19 in the meantime. Erato, who owns Eagle Nation Cycles in Neenah, worries about what would happen to McKinney, 40, and other inmates if they get the coronavirus.

RINGLE - Portage County's most wanted fugitive, Jeremiah Button, was sleeping in his homemade bunker the morning of Aug. 9 when his three-year run from the law came to an end. A hiker named Thomas Nelson was walking in the woods off the Ice Age National Scenic Trail in Ringle when he came across a shelter dug into the side of an embankment, according to a Marathon County Sheriff's Office incident report.

When Josie Bartishofski was in first grade, she learned about wrestling by watching old videos of her dad on the mat in high school. When a flier got passed around at school that year looking for kids to try out a youth wrestling program, she was immediately interested in signing up. Twelve years later, the Wausau native, competing on the boys' team at River Falls High School, stood in the center of a wrestling mat in Chippewa Falls as a referee held her arm in the air, declaring her the winner of a regional championship match in the 106-pound weigh class.