Last school year was the worst in a decade for preschool funding.

It happened around 3:30 Monday on Nine Mile Creek Road, east of Altoona

A pair of strong economic reports also encouraged investors Monday. Wages and spending rose in the U.S. last month, and pending home sales hit their highest level in three years.

The home of the Wisconsin Woodchucks will undergo $2.7 million in repairs of which will be completed by their 2014 season.

In their appeal, the 12 residents contend the board failed to address potential cumulative effects of the proposed Nisbit mine in combination with other sand mines proposed in the area.

"If I had my way, someone else would have already done this," he writes. "Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand."

Police said Monday the rusted metal part from a Boeing 767 is a trailing edge flap support structure. It helps secure wing flaps that aid in regulating plane speed.

Xcel Energy is joining with the Midwest Hydro Users Group (HUG) in observing Dam Safety Awareness Week, April 29 - May 4, to promote public safety awareness near dams and prevent accidents throughout the boating and fishing seasons.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is providing a weekly update on construction projects in the northwest region

In U.S. hospitals, an estimated 1 in 20 patients pick up infections they didn't have when they arrived, some caused by dangerous `superbugs' that are hard to treat.

Heath Benike, of the state Department of Natural Resources says that despite recent warm weather, many lakes north of state Highway 64 are still covered with ice.

The federal insurance exchanges are supposed to be available by Jan. 1, an ambitious deadline.

Dr. Robert Steiner comes from the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Ore. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and its medical school.

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is drawing increased attention after federal officials say Russian authorities intercepted her phone calls, including one in which she vaguely discussed jihad with her elder son. In another, she was recorded talking to someone in southern Russia who is under FBI investigation in an unrelated case, U.S. officials said.

When Tomahawk firefighters arrived they found a 64-year-old De Pere man treading water in Lake Alice and a 42-year-old De Pere man and his 13-year-old daughter stranded on thin ice Saturday.

Eleven members of a Wisconsin National Guard team are returning from Afghanistan a few months ahead of schedule as part of the overall American withdrawal.

History lovers will get a chance to participate in 1860s-era spring chores next month at a historical stagecoach inn in southeastern Wisconsin.

Mayo Clinic Health Systems and the Chippewa Valley Technical College team up to offer teens a driving class.

Dog lovers helped clean up the Happy Tails Dog Park on Sunday to get it ready for the big warm-up.

A Chippewa Valley group that's passionate about pups, reached a major milestone Sunday, rescuing its 1,000th dog in less than a year.

The wait is almost over, history buffs. Old World Wisconsin is set to re-open for the season this weekend.

A Wisconsin lawmaker is pushing for tougher laws to deter people who would intimidate or harm members of the Legislature and their families.

Organizers of the two largest air shows in Wisconsin say they are won't be affected much by the federal budget cuts that have grounded the military's top jet demonstration teams.

The producer of the Thunder on the Lakeshore air show in Manitowoc says he and others are working hard to fill gaps in the lineup left by federal budget cuts.

A man who was armed with knives is dead after he refused officers' orders to drop his weapons and was shot by a Milwaukee officer.