The Wisconsin Democratic leader who revitalized the party in the swing state will be leaving his position in June after a six-year run that included a string of victories and “agonizingly close” losses.

Spending by billionaires including Elon Musk and George Soros has helped push total spending on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race won by the Democratic-backed candidate over $100 million.

Susan Crawford’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cements a liberal majority on the state’s top court for at least three more years.

It's been almost four years since the Astroworld Tragedy claimed 10 lives, including 23-year-old Madison Dubiski. For the first time, her parents are speaking out about their mission to prevent similar tragedies through the Pink Bows Foundation.

Total spending on Wisconsin’s pivotal Supreme Court race has reached more than $81 million, including more than $17 million by groups funded by Trump adviser Elon Musk.

Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court is just entering its final stretch and it’s already breaking records as the most expensive judicial election in the nation’s history.

The Republican-backed candidate in Wisconsin’s closely watched state Supreme Court race has resurfaced long debunked concerns about voting fraud because of the late reporting of ballots in Milwaukee.

The Houston Humane Society is now expanding its adoption program by including farm animals. The shelter currently has five horses, a donkey, a mule and a potbelly pig. Many of the animals were rescued from animal cruelty and neglect situations.

Mikey Madison has won the best actress Oscar for “Anora” in an upset over Hollywood veteran Demi Moore.

Five days before the Academy Awards, nearly every nominee gathered for a cocktail reception, dinner and class picture that served as a sort of Oscars orientation.

By the time the Oscars wind around after months of other award shows and constant handicapping, the prizes can feel almost predetermined.

Nate Bittle had 23 points and Jackson Shelstad made a desperation 3 to force overtime as Oregon beat No. 11 Wisconsin 77-73.

Illinois wasn’t showing any hard feelings toward its opponent when it declined to participate in a postgame handshake.

A new television attack ad in Wisconsin’s hotly contested Supreme Court race features a doctored image of the liberal candidate, a move that her campaign claims could be a violation of a recently enacted state law.

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States dropped dramatically this year even as federal officials move to extend protections for the beloved pollinator.

The Madison, Wisconsin, police chief has been named as the chief of police in Seattle.

An official at the Wisconsin school where a student shot and killed a teacher and a fellow student says the 15-year-old was in her first semester there.

Police say the shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin this week brought two guns to the school.

Hundreds of people in the U.S. have died in shootings over the past 25 years in places like offices, stores and theaters.

Investigators in Wisconsin are trying to determine a motive in a school shooting that left a teacher and a student dead and two other children in critical condition.

Police in Madison, Wisconsin, believe multiple factors prompted a 15-year-old student to open fire at a private Christian school, but they declined to share those Tuesday.

A student opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another student in the final week before Christmas break.

Police say a 15-year-old student killed a teacher and another teenager with a handgun at a Christian school in Wisconsin.

The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own drowning so he could abscond to Europe has filed a court action to end the couple's marriage.

Wisconsin’s upcoming Supreme Court election already had high stakes, with majority control on the line.

Vladislav Goldin scored a career-high 24 points – including three straight baskets inside down the stretch – and Michigan defeated No. 11 Wisconsin 67-64 in the Big Ten opener for both teams.

Kansas strengthened its grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25.

Oregon remains the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after its close call at Wisconsin.

Former NFL head coach Jack Del Rio has stepped down from his role on Wisconsin’s coaching staff after he was arrested near campus for operating a vehicle while intoxicated last week.

An attorney representing a conservate prosecutor is struggling to convince Wisconsin's liberal-leaning Supreme Court to reactivate the state's 175-year-old abortion ban.

Kamala Harris is calling for Americans to “stop pointing fingers at each other” as she tries to push past comments made by President Joe Biden about Donald Trump’s supporters and “garbage.”.

Penn State coach James Franklin isn’t sure if starting quarterback Drew Allar will be ready to play when the No. 3 Nittany Lions host No. 4 Ohio State.

Voting rights advocates on Tuesday asked the state and federal departments of justice to investigate anonymous text messages apparently targeting young Wisconsin voters, warning them not to vote in a state where they are ineligible.

Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court say that Gov_ Tony Evers’ creative use of his expansive veto power in an attempt to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years appeared to be “extreme" and “crazy.”.

A single landfalling hurricane has the potential to set up a community for years. In the Florida Big Bend, many small communities have seen not one, not two, but three landfilling hurricanes in the past 13 months.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that Robert F.

Wisconsin quarterback Tyler Van Dyke was carted into the locker room after being injured on the opening drive against No. 4 Alabama.

The “Yellowstone” sequel has its lead.

Vice President Kamala Harris has put a charge in Wisconsin's most powerful Democratic stronghold, Dane County, where enthusiasm and volunteer support for President Joe Biden had been slipping.

A federal appeals court has blocked the implementation of the Biden administration’s student debt relief plan, which would have lowered monthly payments for millions of borrowers.

A judge on Tuesday rejected an attempt to revive the recall effort targeting the longest-serving Wisconsin Assembly speaker in state history, likely putting an end to the recall push.

Someone’s plans to harvest dozens of apparent marijuana plants grown on the Wisconsin state Capitol grounds have gone up in smoke.

Weather forecast for Houston, Texas, live radar, satellite, severe weather alerts, hour by hour and 7 day forecast temperatures and Hurricane tracking from KPRC 2 and Click2Houston.com.

Authorities say a student who was killed by police outside a Wisconsin school pointed a pellet rifle at officers and had refused to drop the weapon.

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President Joe Biden will announce a significant new plan next week to cancel federal student loan debt for new categories of borrowers.

Severe storms with suspected tornadoes have damaged homes and businesses and killed at least three people in the central United States.

A ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court is raising the bar for religions to show that their charity arms deserve tax exemptions.

A man has been arrested for secretly recording people in the restroom using a cell phone.

Officials say the first tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin in the usually frigid month of February caused more than $2.4 million in damages.

The first tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin in the usually frigid month of February came on a day that broke records for warmth, the type of severe weather normally seen in the late spring and summer.

When two early road losses threatened to derail No. 2 Purdue’s Big Ten championship journey, the Boilermakers charted a different course.

A judge has postponed the trial of an Illinois man accused of killing seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago in 2022 after his lawyer on Wednesday asked for more time to review evidence.

The Republican leader of Wisconsin’s Assembly who had threatened possible impeachment of a new liberal state Supreme Court justice over her views on redistricting now says such a move is “super unlikely.”.

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says Republicans plan to unveil a proposal soon to legalize medical marijuana in the state and could vote on it sometime in 2024.

In a Dec. 21 story about Wisconsin abortion law, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Roe v. Wade only allowed states to regulate abortion after the point of fetal viability.

In Wisconsin, the old fashioned cocktail comes with brandy, not bourbon.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has voted 4-3 along partisan lines to hear a challenge to Republican-drawn legislative maps after a newly elected liberal justice declined to recuse herself.

Planned Parenthood has resumed offering abortions in Wisconsin at clinics in Madison and Milwaukee.

Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature is talking about impeaching a newly elected liberal state Supreme Court justice even before she has heard a case.

A common practice in drawing state legislative districts has come under question in Wisconsin, where a lawsuit is seeking to reshape voting districts before the 2024 elections.

Hannah Roberts of the U.S. won the freestyle BMX world title for the fourth consecutive time and fifth overall Monday in Glasgow, Scotland.

A lawsuit filed with Wisconsin’s newly liberal-controlled state Supreme Court argues that Republican-drawn legislative maps are unconstitutional and must be redone.

Wisconsin Democrats are celebrating the beginning of a new era for the state Supreme Court as it flips from conservative to liberal control for the first time in 15 years.

A judge has ruled that a lawsuit seeking to repeal Wisconsin's 174-year-old abortion ban can continue.

Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson and his G-Unity Foundation partnered with the Astros Foundation Wednesday to bring 100 high school kids from Kashmere, Worthing, Madison, Washington, and Yates High Schools to Minute Maid Park for the Astros game and a leadership symposium.

Houston Police have identified a suspect wanted in connection to a fatal shooting outside a store in southwest Houston in April.

Federal prosecutors have charged a man with firebombing a prominent Wisconsin anti-abortion lobbying group's office last year.

The liberal candidate for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court isn't backing down from her support for abortion rights or her belief that the state's Republican-drawn legislative maps are unfair.

Wisconsin has become the latest state to ban the use of TikTok on state phones and other devices.

A Wisconsin waitress got a $1,000 tip from Christmas morning customer.

The Transportation Security Administration is reminding travelers how to travel with their pets after a dog was found inside a backpack during an x-ray screening at an airport.

Illinois voters have approved an amendment to their state constitution that guarantees the right to bargain collectively.

The $1.9 billion Powerball jackpot drawing scheduled for Monday night was delayed due to a ”technical glitch,” according to lottery host Laura Johnson.

A record Powerball jackpot grew to an even larger $1.9 billion after no one won the lottery drawing on Saturday night.

The Powerball jackpot has reached an estimated record high of $1.6 billion, leading longtime players and first-timers alike to flock to buy tickets ahead of Saturday night’s drawing.

The tit-for-tat war between Zak Brown and Chip Ganassi has taken another turn.

Battered by surging consumer prices and rising interest rates, the U.S. economy shrank at a 0.6% annual rate from April through June, the government announced Thursday, unchanged from its previous second-quarter estimate.

Will Power has tied Mario Andretti for the most poles in IndyCar series history.

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate fell below 5% for the first time in four months this week, just after the Federal Reserve jacked up its main borrowing rate in an aggressive effort to get inflation under control.

Average long-term U.S. mortgage rates were back up this week, just as the latest government data shows inflation has not slowed, meaning the Federal Reserve is almost certain to raise its benchmark borrowing rate again.

The man charged with killing seven people at an Independence Day parade confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop in suburban Chicago and then fled to the Madison, Wisconsin, area, where he contemplated shooting up an event there.

Republican legislators in Wisconsin have quickly adjourned a special session that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called to repeal the state's dormant abortion ban without taking any action.

U.S. consumer confidence edged down in May as Americans’ view of their present and future prospects dimmed in the midst of persistent inflation.

A student who has overcome years of adversity is preparing to graduate from Cypress Ridge High School.

Mississippi is the latest Republican-led state to ban election offices from accepting donations from private groups for voting operations.

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.

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

Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says it is “outrageous” that Republicans plan to spend $680,000 on an investigation into the 2020 election in the state.

In the Madison household, sports aren't just a hobby, it's a way of life.

Mortgage rates rose above the 3% mark this week for the first time in 10 weeks, as the economic recovery from the pandemic recession continues and inflation remains elevated.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming a Mississippi city was at fault in the death of a lawyer who killed himself in the wake of a political scandal that defined Mississippi’s bitter 2014 U.S. Senate race.

Mortgage rates fell for the third straight week, dipping below 3% for the first time in two months.

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide mask mandate, ruling that the Democrat exceeded his authority by unilaterally extending the mandate for months through multiple emergency orders. It comes after Republicans in the Legislature voted to repeal the mask mandate in February, only to see Evers quickly re-issue it. When the court struck down Evers’ “safer at home” order in May it was controlled 5-2 by conservatives. In 2016, Fabick gave $20,000 to conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley.

U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose this week but still remain near historic lows as the pandemic-hobbled economy strains toward recovery with more Americans getting vaccinated against the coronavirus. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)WASHINGTON – U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose this week but remain near historic lows as the pandemic-hobbled economy strains toward recovery with more Americans getting vaccinated against the coronavirus. Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the average rate on the benchmark 30-year fixed-rate home loan increased to 2.97% from 2.81% last week. The average rate on 15-year fixed-rate loans, popular among those seeking to refinance their mortgages, rose to 2.34% from 2.21% last week. While economists expect modest increases in home-loan rates this year, they likely will remain low while the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates near zero until the economy recovers.

The Winter storm may be over, but the winter soccer season is still going strong! The top teams are roaring back on the field after a week off due to weather! Here are our top area UIL teams and the updated rankings! San Antonio UIL Girls Soccer Top 10 (2/23):1. Boerne Champion (Previously: 9) 11-2By Allison LingFor more sports coverage, follow VYPE (VYPE Texas Facebook and @VYPESATX Instagram/Twitter) on social media.

Their meeting Sunday headlines the national AP Top 25 schedule for the week, a matchup of teams contending for No. Meanwhile Ohio State (17-4, 11-4) has won six straight overall — including against the Badgers and No. “The biggest thing as a coach right now is we’ve got to get better,” Ohio State coach Chris Holtmann said after Saturday’s win against Indiana. 25 last week but visits Michigan on Thursday. There’s also Belmont (22-1, 16-0 Ohio Valley) chasing the program’s first AP Top 25 poll ranking.