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Presidential campaign underdogs Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders were both victorious in Wisconsin, but both face a steep uphill climb for their parties' nomination.

TOMAH — Nellie Pater defeated three write-in candidates Tuesday to become mayor of Tomah.

Gundersen Health System introduced plans Monday to remove nine houses and build a parking lot on the city block immediately adjacent to its campus, between Eighth and Ninth streets and Denton and Tyler streets.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation proposed narrower lanes for the South Avenue road construction project Monday in response to the city of La Crosse’s vision for the mile-long corridor between Green Bay Street and Ward Avenue.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The 2016 presidential race may have descended on Wisconsin — but most of the campaign buzz Tuesday surrounded an incident that happened nearly a month ago in Florida.

HealthGrove wanted to see which of the 50 U.S. states (and Washington, D.C.) has the most polluted air. Using data from The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we analyzed average daily fine particulate matter (ug/m3) from 2003 to 2011.…

ST. LOUIS (TNS) — The people who spend two bucks for chili at the Courtesy Diner at Laclede Station Road can’t fathom why anyone would pay Hillary Clinton $225,000 to make a speech.

WASHINGTON (TNS) — For months, Democratic strategists viewed Donald Trump as a dream opponent in the 2016 presidential race — a clownish political novice who would gift their front-runner, Hillary Clinton, the White House in a landslide.

ATLANTA (TNS) — Almost five decades before Donald Trump’s campaign events turned violent, fists and folding chairs flew at rallies for another U.S. presidential candidate riding a wave of populist rage and dismissed by party elders and pundits.

Smoke billows from the Zaventem Airport after a controlled explosion in Brussels, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Bombs struck the Brussels airport and one of the city's metro stations Tuesday, killing and wounding dozens of people, as a European capital was…