Wisconsin Science & Technology News

District Attorney Craig Watkins is scheduled to ask a judge Tuesday to stop an investigation the commissioners ordered into possible wrongdoing by the constables. A hearing had been scheduled Monday to hear a similar request from one of the constables,...

More than a dozen Brown County inmates may have been part of a phone scam that used software to make thousands of collect calls and charge them to local businesses and county offices...Investigators still are counting the number of calls...

PepsiCo is facing criticism for an iPhone application that promises to help men "score" with women...Spokespeople at the company's Purchase, N.Y. headquarters did not immediately return messages seeking comment Wednesday. The application lets users select from stereotypes of women, like...

Nelles, 84, Wausau, died Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, at the Palliative Care Unit of Aspirus Wausau Hospital...Survivors include her two sons, Paul (Debra) Nelles, Knowlton, and Daniel (Julie) Nelles, Merrill; three daughters, Mary (David) Hall, Fitchburg, Louise (Kevin) Wolf, Wausau,...

A new program designed to preserve Wisconsin farmland by offering tax incentives is open for business. The state Agriculture Department says it is now accepting requests from farmers and local governments to have land designated as an agriculture enterprise area....

Gov. Gen Michaëlle Jean has relaunched the problem-plagued Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which will probe the assimilation and abuse aboriginal children faced at Canada's residential schools.

District administrator Chuck Whitsell said the district was closed Tuesday afternoon and will reopen Monday. The school district said the high rate of absenteeism decreased the ability to maintain necessary school functioning. Whitsell said school closure is a reasonable and...