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Police in Laramie, Wyoming, and Marquette County, Wisconsin, say fraud rings posing as federal agents convinced elderly victims to convert their savings into gold bars before sending couriers to collect it.

Democrat David Crowley, Milwaukee County’s executive, has won Wisconsin’s governorship over Republican Rep. Tom Tiffany, becoming the state’s first Black governor.

A mother and her nine-year-old son discovered the submerged remains of the A.H. Pitz, a tugboat built in 1923, while walking the shoreline of Lake Superior near South Range, Wisconsin.

Packers running back Josh Jacobs apologized to teammates and called himself “remorseful” in his first public comments since returning from the NFL’s commissioner’s exempt list following a domestic abuse arrest.

A three-vote margin in a 2010 Wisconsin Assembly primary recount launched the career of current Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August, a reminder of how narrow some elections — including recent statewide races in Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona — can be.

A Milwaukee Brewers fan who bought a $1,000 “Timeless Ticket” in 2015 is hoping to finally redeem it for a seat at the team’s first World Series appearance since 1982.

Troy Aikman declined to deny a report of tension with broadcast partner Joe Buck over Buck’s new ESPN contract, while Aikman himself remains a free agent at season’s end; separately, former Cowboys QB Tony Romo was placed on leave by CBS after a Wisconsin OWI arrest.

a message that is broadly popular but short on specifics. Virtually every political figure, Carter notes, now claims to support affordability in some form, which she says makes the term better at describing a problem than offering a solution.What the Pew numbers showCarter points to Pew Research polling on which party’s economic policies Americans trust more. Despite a weak economic mood overall, with only 24% of Americans rating the economy as good or excellent and six in 10 saying Trump’s econ

An immigration judge ruled that the president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque can be deported over national security concerns tied to decades-old convictions in Israel, a decision he has vowed to appeal.

Financial disclosures show Wisconsin Democratic House nominee Rebecca Cooke was paid by two groups with financial ties to George Soros’ Open Society network, even as she has campaigned on a working-class waitress identity.