President Barack Obama arrived in Madison, Wis., at about 2:40 a.m. Monday, the Wisconsin State Journal reports. He and rocker Bruce Springsteen rallied a crowd there later in the morning.

The Duluth chapter of the NAACP says an effigy of President Barack Obama hung from an electronic billboard should be prosecuted as a "terroristic threat," the News Tribune reports. Police cut down the effigy after residents reported it on Election Day. The scarecrow had a mask of Obama and a noose around its neck.

Democrats gained seats in key state legislative districts on Tuesday and appeared to pick up enough seats to retake control of both the House and Senate, which the DFL lost in 2010.

An 8-point buck being chased by a dog leapt through a window at the University of Wisconsin-Stout and tore down a hallway in the Vocational Rehabilitation building, the Associated Press reports. The animal escaped out an automatic door. One man had a minor injury after scrambling to get out of its way. The deer lost a lot of blood and officials tried to track it, but they never found it.