runner Mitt Romney on Friday defended his personal wealth amid intensifying criticism from President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, which is trying to portray the former businessman as out of touch with most Americans.
Romney, who is worth up (...)
The Milwaukee Brewers scored five runs in the sixth inning to beat Arizona 9-4 Sunday and take a two-games-to-none grip on their Major League Baseball playoff series.
In Philadelphia, the Cardinals ensured the Phillies didn't get a similar (...)
Bubba Watson capitalized on his monster drive on the par-5 16th, two-putting for a birdie that tied him with Martin Kaymer atop the leaderboard at the PGA Championship Sunday.
The two are at 12-under, but Watson, playing three groups ahead of (...)
The only thing clear after two days of fog-induced havoc at the PGA Championship is that Matt Kuchar is playing very, very well.
Kuchar ran off three straight birdies on the back nine to get to 8-under Friday. That gave him a two-stroke lead, (...)
A convicted murderer serving life in prison in Wisconsin has lost his legal battle to play Dungeons and Dragons behind bars.
Kevin T. Singer filed a lawsuit against officials at Wisconsin's Waupun prison after a policy was initiated in 2004 to (...)
Aaron Rodgers threw three touchdown passes, including two to tight end Jermichael Finley, as the Green Bay Packers beat the Baltimore Ravens 27-14 in a penalty-filled game Monday.
It was the fourth straight win for the Packers (8-4), solidifying (...)
A retired school-teacher with multiple sclerosis has now climbed the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents.
A dispatch from the expedition company Alpine Ascents International reported that Lori Schneider reached the 29,035-foot (...)
The US dairy industry wants to engineer the “cow of the future” to pass less gas, a project aimed at cutting the industry's greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020. The cow project aims to reduce intestinal methane, the single largest (...)
Facing one last chance to avoid their dubious destiny, the Detroit Lions lost Sunday's season finale to the Green Bay Packers 31-21 to complete the league's first 0-16 season.
The 1976 expansion Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-14) were the last NFL team to (...)
A Maltese dog named Max is headed home to Florida after he was spotted in Chicago - 1,000 miles from where he vanished.
Richard Gonzalez had reported a pet theft after Max disappeared several months ago from his daughter's yard in Brandon, (...)
Aaron Rodgers passed his first test as the Green Bay Packers' new quarterback, throwing for 178 yards and a touchdown and scoring on a game-clinching sneak in a 24-19 victory over the Minnesota Vikings on Monday.
Rodgers got help from the Packers' (...)
Brett Favre's all-star career with Green Bay has likely come to an end amid back-and-forth accusations between the three-time league MVP and the Packers management.
Packers head coach Mike McCarthy said Tuesday that he believes Favre has played his (...)
A woman accused of planting a dead lab rat in restaurant food and demanding $500,000 to keep quiet was charged Monday with one felony count of extortion.
Debbie R. Miller, 41, of Appleton, also faces misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct and (...)
Brett Favre says he has not filed any retirement papers and wants another crack at playing in the National Football League.
He just doesn't know if it will be with the Green Bay Packers or another NFL team.
Speaking on a Fox News network (...)
year-old woman who had crawled under her car to look for her keys ended up stuck beneath an axle for two days until her mail carrier noticed letters piling up, police said.
Betty Borowski, of the Milwaukee suburb of Greendale, was found Tuesday and (...)
year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares.
Police say the Waukesha (pronounced WAWK'-uh-shaw) man took a cab to a mall Monday and pretended to have a heart attack. The cab (...)
Ryan Briscoe held off Indianapolis 500 winner Scott Dixon and barely slipped through a late-race crash to win the A.J. Foyt 225 at the Milwaukee Mile on Sunday.
A week after an embarrassing pit lane accident that took out fan favorite Danica (...)
Jason Dorshorst thought somebody ripped off his $4,000 wheelchair in broad daylight while he washed his pickup truck. It turns out that a good Samaritan took it to keep it from being stolen.
Dorshorst, 26, of Plover, washed his vehicle Monday at (...)