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The sheriff's office said the bear was an adult female, and one cub was seen running off as the bear ran toward the home.

The couple’s children were asleep in bed when the bear burst into their home.

A Florida appeals court reinstated a new and controversial congressional map backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, who calls the map "race-neutral." CBS News anchor Lana Zak spoke with William March, a Florida political reporter and analyst for the Tampa Bay Times, about what sparked the controversy.

Wisconsin Republicans agreed Saturday to have a “no endorsement” option when voting on whether to throw the party's official backing behind a candidate in the hotly contested governor's race. The top candidates in the governor's race were slated to make their pitch later Saturday for an endorsement to more than 1,500 delegates attending the annual convention near Madison. Winning the endorsement requires support from 60% of delegates.

The free sewing machines can be a tool of income for those starting over.

The plaintiffs, two Democratic 2020 presidential electors, are asking a Wisconsin judge to declare that submitting the alternate slate of electors was unlawful.

The civil suit comes as the Justice Department and Georgia prosecutors are also exploring whether alternate electors broke laws.

The outcomes have significant implications for state-by-state governance at a time when red and blue states are heading in opposite directions.

Analyst: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kathy Barnette is surging in the polls because top contenders David McCormick and Mehmet Oz spent months tearing each other down in negative campaign ads. (May 13)

As drug overdoses are on the rise across the nation, more states are beginning to decriminalize fentanyl testing strips.

Advocate Aurora Health has announced plans to combine with Atrium Health — creating one of the largest hospital systems in the country.

Police are investigating after the Wisconsin Family Action office in Madison was found vandalized and a Molotov cocktail was recovered at the scene.

Many voters with disabilities rely on a loved one or caregiver to return their absentee ballot for them. Wisconsin's high court is weighing whether current state law allows for that help.

President Biden is scheduled to hold an event touting efforts to expand Internet access before signing legislation aimed at speeding up deployment of military equipment to Ukraine.

Wisconsin, a swing state with crucial midterm races, is home to a fiery debate over crime, policing and racial justice.

For the first time in decades, this year’s race for Wisconsin secretary of state means something.

New analysis tracks the effort to conflate collecting ballots with illegal activity.

A Democratic legislator in Wisconsin has drawn backlash on Twitter after referring to women as “birthing bodies” while defending abortion. Rep. Francesca Hong, who serves the 76th Assembly District, was among many to comment on the recent leak of a Supreme Court draft expected to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade case, which would make abortion immediately illegal in at least 13 states. “Birthing bodies have the right to freedom,” Hong wrote in a tweet.

More than 1,000 workers at CNH Industrial plants in Wisconsin and Iowa have walked out on strike in search of a better deal with the company that makes agriculture and construction equipment.

A Hazardous Weather Outlook was issued late Saturday morning for portions of Northeast Illinois and Northwest Indiana for Saturday afternoon and night, weather officials said.

Turmoil over the 2020 election has split Republicans in both Upper Midwest battlegrounds, putting voting issues front and center. But will voters care more about that than inflation?

Fourteen-year-old boy charged in the northwestern Wisconsin case said he intended to rape and kill the 10-year-old "from the get-go," according to prosecutors.

Fourteen-year-old boy charged in the northwestern Wisconsin case said he intended to rape and kill the 10-year-old "from the get-go," according to prosecutors.

A single lottery ticket sold in Arizona won Wednesday’s Powerball jackpot of $473.1 million, lottery officials said.

"He and I fought about Medicare and entitlement reform all the time," the former GOP House speaker said.

"The suspect was known to the victim," police chief Matt Kelm said.

Videos of the process have gone viral on TikTok, with #woodturning and #woodburning garnering hundreds of millions of views on the popular video app.

The trend, fractal wood burning, is “highly dangerous, and should only be done by trained professionals.”

Officers said a "bicycle believed to belong to Lily" was found in the woods near her aunt's home.

Officers said a "bicycle believed to belong to Lily" was found in the woods near her aunt's home.

The body of a 10-year-old Wisconsin girl who went missing Sunday night was found Monday morning, police said. Iliana “Lily” M.

Republican Tim Michels, a multimillionaire construction company co-owner who last ran for office nearly two decades ago, has launched his campaign for governor in Wisconsin.

Sarah Shulze ran on the University of Wisconsin's track and cross country teams. Her family said, "Balancing athletics, academics and the demands of everyday life overwhelmed her in a single, desperate moment."

Sarah Shulze ran on the University of Wisconsin's track and cross country teams. Her family said, "Balancing athletics, academics and the demands of everyday life overwhelmed her in a single, desperate moment."

Sarah Shulze ran on the University of Wisconsin's track and cross country teams. Her family said, "Balancing athletics, academics and the demands of everyday life overwhelmed her in a single, desperate moment."

The process uses high-voltage electricity to create designs in wood and has gained popularity on social media sites.

The process uses high-voltage electricity to create designs in wood and has gained popularity on social media sites.

Sarah Shulze, a runner on the University of Wisconsin’s track and cross country teams, has died. Shulze’s family announced on April 15 that she had died two days earlier, and gave the cause of death. “Sarah took her own life,” the family said.

A judge on Thursday ordered an investigator in Wisconsin looking into the 2020 election to stop deleting records, the latest blow against the former state Supreme Court justice whose contract is nearing an end. Michael Gableman has released two interim reports on the election won by President Joe Biden and has suggested the GOP-controlled Legislature look into the legally impossible move of decertifying his victory. Republican leaders, including Assembly Speaker Robin Vos who hired Gableman, have repeatedly said they have no intention of trying to decertify the win.

The Senate Leadership fund is trying to protect vulnerable Republican seats and flip Democratic seats in battleground states.

A crowded field of Democrats is trying to figure out a winning strategy to unseat Republican Sen. Ron Johnson in Wisconsin in November.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has adopted Republican-drawn maps for the state Legislature, after initially approving maps drawn by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

Democrats made gains in governors' offices and state courts, hoping that would protect their redistricting efforts. But Republicans have benefitted from the conservative Supreme Court.

The Republican legislature does not have the votes to override his vetoes. The bills are part of a nationwide GOP effort to reshape the elections.

Wisconsin’s Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who is up for reelection in November, has vetoed a package of bills passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have made a series of changes to the battleground state’s election laws.

Wisconsin's Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who is up for reelection in November, on Friday vetoed a package of bills passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that would have made a series of changes to the battleground state's election laws. The bills are part of a nationwide Republican effort to reshape elections following President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. The bills were quickly passed earlier this year amid Trump's insistence that the 2020 election was stolen from him and that there was widespread fraud, despite no evidence to back up his claims.

Kelsey Musgrove's body was found "partially buried in a steep clay bank" on the river's edge at Potato River Falls, the sheriff said.

Kelsey Musgrove's body was found "partially buried in a steep clay bank" on the river's edge at Potato River Falls, the sheriff said.

A recent survey found that 20% of election workers say they are unlikely to continue in their role in the 2024 election cycle. Here are some of the new faces joining the ranks.

Kelsey Musgrove had been hiking at Potato River Falls​ in Iron County and last had contact with people on March 26.

The 39-year-old appeared before a judge who ordered him held on $10,000 bond; he was released after posting the required 10%, or $1,000.

Tribal and state officials are warning against harassment of spearfishers as the Indigenous harvest season starts in northern Wisconsin.

“Looks very familiar,” one woman said.

Hormel voluntarily recalled 60,000 jars in 18 states that might have been affected by an errant piece of manufacturing equipment.

Wisconsin basketball star Johnny Davis is ready to turn pro after delivering a superb sophomore season.

Cameron County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a second suspect in a late December double homicide at Old Port Isabel Road north of F.M. 511 in Loma Alta, officials said.

Republicans are deciding whether to hold their presidential nominating convention in 2024 in Milwaukee, the largest Democratic stronghold in battleground Wisconsin, or in Nashville, Tennessee, a Democratic city in a GOP-controlled state.

The push by Republicans to conduct partisan ballot reviews like the one that unfolded last year in Arizona has spread beyond battleground states disputed by former President Donald Trump.

Chicago White Sox star Minnie Minoso's son, Orestes Arrieta, was a minor league ball player and translator in the Kankakee County court system.

A Wisconsin senator is urging Kohl's to not accept any buyout offer that might prelude a bankruptcy filing or threaten workers' jobs in the state.

Wisconsin's Democratic governor is telling the state Supreme Court that it should allow him to submit additional evidence defending his legislative district boundary map that the U.S. Supreme Court rejected.

The Supreme Court has thrown out Wisconsin state legislative maps that were preferred by the state’s Democratic governor and selected by Wisconsin’s top court, a win for Republicans that also makes it unclear what boundaries will be in place for the fall election.

School officials in Kenosha, Wisconsin, released surveillance footage that shows an off-duty police officer putting his knee on a 12-year-old girl’s neck to restrain her amid a lunchtime fight.

Johnny Davis scored 25 points and sparked a second-half comeback as Wisconsin withstood Colgate’s 3-point assault and beat the Raiders 67-60 in an NCAA Tournament first-round game Friday night.

Wisconsin officials have destroyed the rifle Kyle Rittenhouse used to shoot three people during protests in Kenosha in 2020.

Wisconsin’s Johnny Davis is The Associated Press player of the year in the Big Ten Conference and the Badgers’ Greg Gard is coach of the year.

Tenth-ranked Wisconsin lost leading scorer Johnny Davis when he was injured on a flagrant foul early in the second half, and the Badgers also missed a chance to clinch the Big Ten title outright by falling to Nebraska 74-73.

Wisconsin is one of America's most politically divided states in this crucial midterm election year.

Michigan basketball coach Juwan Howard has been suspended the final five games of the regular season and fined $40,000 for hitting a Wisconsin assistant in the head, triggering a postgame melee.

Michigan coach Juwan Howard hit Wisconsin assistant Joe Krabbenhoft after arguing with Wisconsin coach Greg Gard during the handshake line following the Badgers’ 77-63 victory.

Jordan Stolz has been called the future of speed skating, here's a look at his journey to the 2022 Winter Games.

Wisconsin is one of four states emerging as top priorities for Democrats in an election year when the party is facing fierce political headwinds.

Jordan Stolz, a 17-year-old American speed skater, is set to make his Olympic debut after a record-setting season.

Kleba dispels a rumor about an unfortunate testing debacle, gives insight into a day on the ice, and gets asked a starchy question about his futuristic eyewear.

As the only woman competing for the U.S. women's ski jumping team, Anna Hoffmann continued the United States' representation at the Olympic level for all three Winter Games.

Winter is changing across the Great Lakes region, and scientists want to know what that will mean.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is known for his folksy demeanor, sprinkling his speeches with “by gollys” and the occasional PG-rated swear word.

Powerball tickets sold in Wisconsin and California were winners of the latest jackpot and will split $632 million.

The Southeastern Conference and Big East Conference have updated their policies for basketball game postponements, cancellations and rescheduling to give more leniancy to teams that are unable to play because of spiking COVID-19 cases.

Partisan election reviews of the 2020 presidential election are underway in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin while Republican lawmakers elsewhere continue their calls to bring them to their states.

A group supporting former President Donald Trump's agenda is working to bypass Wisconsin's Democratic governor to change the swing state's election laws.

Houston fell three spots to No. 15 in the latest Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll after the Cougars’ first loss of the season to Wisconsin.

Baylor coach Scott Drew knew his sixth-ranked Bears might need time to blend a changed roster after losing four starters from a national-championship run.

Johnny Davis scored a career-high 30 points and Wisconsin beat No. 12 Houston 65-63 in the Maui Invitational semifinals.

An 8-year-old boy is the sixth person to die as a result of a man driving his SUV into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade.

Wisconsin parade-crash dead identified as four women ages 52 to 79, and an 81-year-old man.

As many turn to social media to find information related to the deadly tragedy at the Waukesha Christmas Parade, here are key accounts that are posting updates.

The images and video from the first several minutes of the 2021 Waukesha Christmas Parade showed families lining the streets for the Sunday afternoon celebration. There were decked-out cars, marching bands, and dancers.

Police say a person is in custody after an SUV sped through barricades and into a parade of Christmas marchers in suburban Milwaukee on Sunday, killing multiple people.

On both sides of America’s abortion debate, activists are convinced that the 1973 Supreme Court ruling establishing a nationwide right to abortion is imperiled as never before.

Kyle Rittenhouse, fighting back sobs, nearly collapsed out of the television camera's sight as the last of five ‘not guilty’ verdicts was read in a Wisconsin courtroom.

The upcoming verdict in Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial for shooting three men during street unrest in Wisconsin comes against a backdrop of deep political divisions and expanded access to guns in the United States – factors that some fear could lead to more dangerous encounters.

U.S. government attorneys have asked a federal judge to uphold a decision from the waning days of the Trump administration that lifted protections for gray wolves across most of the country.

Republicans are increasingly optimistic about flipping governor’s offices in key battleground states next year.

A Wisconsin health care company has ended a nine-year partnership with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.

Graham Mertz scored on two quarterback sneaks and threw a touchdown pass to help Wisconsin trounce No. 9 Iowa 27-7 on Saturday for its fourth consecutive victory.

A highly anticipated nonpartisan audit of the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin did not identify any widespread fraud in the battleground state, which a key Republican legislative leader says shows that the state's elections are “safe and secure.”.

Jim Harbaugh’s stock is up at Michigan and Ed Orgeron’s stock is down at LSU five weeks into the college football season.

Cornelius Johnson caught both of Cade McNamara’s touchdown passes and No. 14 Michigan remained unbeaten with a 38-17 victory over Wisconsin, which lost starting quarterback Graham Mertz to a chest injury.