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A senior forward making school history headlines the past week of high school boys basketball action. Vote for your favorite performer as this week's Supernova.

Wisconsin volleyball will take on Kentucky in the semifinals of the NCAA Tournament. Here's how you can attend and watch the match, which is slated for Thursday night.

While it’s going to be all hands on deck after Micah Parsons tore an ACL in Sunday's loss, this team captain will be called on to shoulder an even larger load.

Gavin Thompson appeared before Iowa County Circuit Court Judge Craig Day, who found that Thompson is incompetent but will likely regain competency.

March 5, 1971 - December 10, 2025

Elma Joan Hardy Metzloff, 92, December 12, 2025. She is survived by three sons, Christian, Kurt, and Kyle (Elizabeth); and six grandchildren. Formerly of Tonawanda, NY, she was a Classroom Teacher and Reading Specialist at Tonawanda Schools, then Supervisor of…

The crash happened about 6:20 a.m. Sunday as the pedestrian was crossing the 4400 block of East Washington Avenue, Madison police reported.

Police release ID of shooting victim

Anthony Geary, who rose to fame in the 1970s and '80s as half the daytime TV super couple Luke and Laura on "General Hospital," has died. He was 78.

Jonathan L. Britton is charged with first-degree reckless homicide and possession of a firearm by a felon in the Nov. 17 shooting that killed J’Marr M. Willis, also of Madison.

The Badgers will be reshaping their front office for the second straight offseason after another departure.

Above: Theresa Freund, director of the Mad City Ukes, leads the group Monday as it performs during Holiday Tunes in the Terminal at Dane County Regional Airport. Below left: Eva Sokol, of Lodi, and 2-year-old son Clark listen as they…

Jim Troupis, Ken Chesebro and Mike Roman have been charged with 11 counts of felony forgery for his involvement in the fake electors scheme

Federal prosecutors charged Judge Hannah Dugan in April with obstruction and concealing an individual to prevent arrest.

NEW YORK — Wall Street drifted through a quiet day of trading on Monday, ahead of economic reports this week that could drive where interest rates go.

Attorney General Josh Kaul has said the hiring of outside environmental legal fellows is needed to help the department hold polluters accountable.

LOS ANGELES — The 32-year-old son of longtime Hollywood figure Rob Reiner was arrested on suspicion of murder and held without bail Monday in the stabbing deaths of his parents in their Los Angeles home, authorities said.

TODAY'S OBITUARIES

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word's proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, has made it Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year.

One of the best pass rushers in the NFL will be out for an extended period of time following an injury in Sunday's loss to Denver.