MONFORT - Investigators with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office report a six-year-old child was killed and two other people wounded in a shooting inside a home in the village of Montfort. The incident happened Friday.

Names of the shooting victims weren’t released. Deputies say the wounded woman and an eight-year-old were both airlifted to a Madison hospital. Authorities say there is no indication of a continuing threat to the community. Deputies were called to the scene yesterday afternoon. They blocked off an area around the house while crime scene investigators did their work.

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Commuter rail service between Milwaukee and Chicago was disrupted Friday afternoon in Pleasant Prairie. An Amtrak commuter train apparently struck and killed a man near the Illinois-Wisconsin border. The railroad tracks were blocked off while crime scene investigators went over the location where the man’s body was found along the route between the two major cities. Authorities are saying the fatality is an accident. The dead man’s identity wasn’t released.

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Authorities in northeast Wisconsin say about 30 school children were headed to a religious conference in Green Bay when the church bus they were riding in caught fire. No injuries were reported in the Friday incident on Green Bay’s west side. The bus from Immanuel Baptist Church in Wausau was evacuated and it was seen burning in a parking lot. A city transit system bus carried the children the rest of the way to the conference. Traffic was routed around the scene. Firefighters say the bus was fully engulfed when they arrived.

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Milwaukee police report they are holding a suspect in the shooting deaths of two men on the city’s north side. Police say a man was arrested after he showed up at a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Investigators think he is tied to the shooting. Police found the two victims dead on the scene when they responded to a report of shots fired. Their identities have not been released.

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The Reverend Jesse Jackson is calling for a federal investigation of the Milwaukee Police Department policies after a white officer shot a mentally ill black man to death. Jackson and about 200 supporters of Dontre Hamilton’s family filled the steps of the federal courthouse in Milwaukee Friday afternoon. Jackson told the crowd Hamilton has “more power in the grave than his killers on the street.” He says the controversy isn’t about black and white, saying it’s about wrong and right. Former officer Christopher Manney shot Hamilton to death April 30th when he said Hamilton grabbed his baton and attacked him with it. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett met for about 45 minutes today with the Reverend Jesse Jackson. Barrett spokesman Jeff Fleming said the mayor discussed violence and unemployment in Wisconsin's largest city. Fleming called it a "constructive discussion." The Milwaukee U.S. attorney's office is investigating whether Hamilton's civil rights were violated when fired officer Christopher Manney got into a scuffle with him, and then shot him to death last April at the city's downtown Red Arrow Park. Jackson's Rainbow Push Coalition gave the Hamilton shooting some national publicity last weekend with a news conference in Chicago. At that time, Jackson said he'd do what he can to provide direct support to Hamilton's family and backers.

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Friends and relatives are saying goodbye today to 13-month-old Bill Thao, who was shot to death last weekend when somebody sprayed bullets into a home in Milwaukee. Visitation continues until eight tonight at Milwaukee's Lakeview Funeral Home -- where a service will be held tomorrow before the infant is buried. The funeral home and Pinelawn Memorial Park donated the cost of the services and the burial. Bill Thao was born November second of last year, and he was 32-inches tall and 32-pounds at the time of his death. Milwaukee Police were still looking for suspects today in the shooting incident.

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A special court martial is scheduled Monday for a Coast Guard officer accused of having sexual contact with a female staffer while working in Milwaukee. Petty Officer Third Class Joshua Raymond is charged with several military law violations -- including attempted sexual assault, and abusive sex contact with a fellow service member. Raymond was accused of having improper contact with a female officer at a party in Wauwatosa in November of 2013. Earlier reports indicated that he was transferred to Grand Haven Michigan after the incident. The special court martial is set to begin Monday morning at the federal courthouse in Cleveland.

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Dane County sheriff's deputies were looking today for two men who illegally entered a home in Cambridge and assaulted three people. Two men and a woman were taken to a Madison hospital with injuries suffered in the attacks around 2:30 this morning. Another woman and a girl were also in the house, and they escaped injury. It appeared that the home was targeted, but sheriff's officials are not sure why. The men entered through a side door, and at least one had a handgun.

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The 114th Congress officially begins Tuesday at 11 a.m. That's when state Senate Republican Glenn Grothman of Campbellsport becomes the newest Wisconsin House member. The Badger State will continue to have five Republicans and three Democrats in the House, after 36-year incumbent Tom Petri of Fond du Lac retires. Grothman tells the Wisconsin State Journal he'll miss serving at the State Capitol after 21 years -- but he believes he can solve problems better at the federal level. Grothman, one of the state's most conservative lawmakers, says it will be an "exciting challenge" to solve problems which he lists as a stagnant economy, a government in deep debt, a welfare system he calls "out of control," and a government he says "wields too much power over businesses and families." Critics say Grothman's better known for what he's said that what he's done -- and indeed, he knows how to grab headlines by declaring a "war on men," and calling Kwanzaa a creation of an "anti-American radical." He tells the State Journal those things are often taken out of context -- and he hopes people will judge him on the many bills he has authored in Madison. Grothman said he had 60 measures approved in the last four years that Republicans have controlled both the legislative and executive branches. Among other things, he points to sweeping new tax breaks for agriculture and manufacturers.

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New foreclosure cases in southeast Wisconsin plunged by 24-percent last year compared to 2013. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel counted just over 53-hundred new court cases in seven area counties against those hopelessly behind on their mortgages. That total was the lowest in nine years, even lower than the numbers of foreclosures just before the Great Recession began in earnest. Last month, 355 new cases were filed against homeowners in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Washington, Ozaukee, Racine, Kenosha, and Walworth counties. The monthly total was also the lowest in almost a decade.

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State officials have projected that Wisconsin's current two-year Medicaid budget will be balanced, with the help of settlements from drug-makers. The Health Services Department told the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee in a letter today that it plans to spend 16-point-three billion dollars on programs like BadgerCare. That's the amount approved in the two-year state budget which expires June 30th. The health agency said it expects to allocate $22-million from what drug manufacturers have paid to the state, in settling lawsuits that they charged too much to Medicaid for its client medications.

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Wisconsin traffic deaths have fallen to their lowest level in 71 years. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation reports 491 traffic deaths in the state. That’s down from 527 in 2013. The last time the number of Wisconsin traffic deaths fell below 500 was in 1943. State officials give a lot of the credit for improved safety to increased enforcement of seat belt use and safer vehicles. Nearly 85-percent of Wisconsin drivers and passengers are buckling up these days. WisDOT officials says roads are also designed better, contributing to the falling number of highway deaths.

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A Madison area couple will spend at least the first month of the New Year in Salt Lake City -- where their flight home was cut off, as their baby arrived early. Zach and Allison Peery were flying home from San Francisco on Wednesday when Allison started having contractions only 30 weeks into her pregnancy. The first leg of the couple's Delta Air Lines flight was supposed to end in Minneapolis -- but Allison's water broke just 30 minutes in. A medical emergency was declared, and the plane landed at Salt Lake City. An emergency cesarean section was performed at University Hospital, and a boy named Carl was soon born. He weighed four pounds, six ounces, born at 10:30 in the morning on New Year's Eve. He was still in intensive care at last word. Allison Peery told reporters it might be a lonely month in Utah's capital, because the family doesn't know anybody there. They'll look for options for getting home to Madison as soon as they get their bearings set.

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Northeast Wisconsin woman and a former Green Bay Packers' star raised awareness of organ donations, by riding on a float in yesterday's Tournament of Roses Parade. Jackie Pische of Gillett and 1970's Green Bay running back John Brockington -- both organ-or-tissue recipients -- were among 30 people who rode on the "Donate Life" float in Pasadena. Brockington's wife Diane was among a dozen who walked with the float. Pische is the mother of Joshua Richards, who was shot-and-killed in December of 2013 at the Luna Lounge in Appleton. Richards was an organ-and-tissue donor. Several people, including his mother, have received those. Brockington met long-time Packer fan Diane Scott when he moved to San Diego after his playing days. Diane offered to give Brockington a kidney in late 2001 -- and it's still works perfectly 14 years later. When he returned to health, Brockington and Scott married. Today, they run the John Brockington Foundation to raise awareness of organ and tissue donations, while raising funds for those on dialysis who wait for transplants. Brockington became the first running back in NFL history to rush for a-thousand yards in each of his first three seasons. This season, Eddie Lacy became only the second Packer to match Brockington's feat after two seasons.

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A little snow and a lot of cold are due in Wisconsin starting late tomorrow. Most northern and central areas had 1-to-2 inches on New Year's morning. Many of those same places could get another inch-or-two tomorrow night and into Sunday. A rain-and-snow mix is due in far southern Wisconsin. Areas from Sheboygan to Baraboo to Madison could get 3-to-4 inches tomorrow and Sunday -- along with suddenly colder temperatures. Highs are projected to be in the 20-to-30-degree range through tomorrow, when a low-pressure system is expected to make things much colder. An Alberta Clipper will follow early next week. That means overnight wind-chills could be in the 20-to-40-below range statewide from Sunday night through most of the week.