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Digest 11-26
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‘I see myself playing like a warrior’: Wisconsin volleyball's Lopez fights through ACL rehab (copy)
Wisconsin volleyball's Grace Lopez, an expected starter on the right side, knows the competition for playing time will be fierce next season.
Thomas Earl Richgels
July 13, 1952 — November 15, 2025
Charles P. "Charlie" Kozitzky III
March 26, 1962 — November 23, 2025
Joseph J. Hasburgh
MUSCODA/RICHLAND CENTER — Joseph J. Hasburgh age 95 of Richland Center and formerly of Muscoda passed away on Monday, November 24, 2025 at Pine Valley Community Village.
Donald F. Manion
February 14, 1934 — November 22, 2025
Econ Quiz for Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025
Thanksgiving week is here and with it comes our annual Econ Quiz celebrating Wisconsin’s harvest. Though farming in Wisconsin is sometimes synonymous with dairy, it’s the fruits of our fields that turn a turkey dinner into a Thanksgiving Day feast.
Texas Republicans’ own words backfired in gerrymander ruling | Dallas Morning News
In blocking Texas from using its new congressional maps, a federal judicial panel painstakingly discredited Republican arguments that race wasn’t the primary driver of the 2025 redistricting.
If you bought Prairie Farms fat-free milk at Woodman’s recently, it may be contaminated
The recall applies to Woodman’s stores in Wisconsin and Illinois.
UW-Madison revamps public defender training, after budget cuts
This fall, UW-Madison’s Law School laid off the director of its program that trains students to be public defenders.
Packers QB says shoulder shouldn't limit his effectiveness
Love's injury is to his non-throwing shoulder, and it's been bothering him some. But he hopes to keep playing at a high level.
Flags at half-staff Wednesday to honor DHS nurse killed in parking lot crash
Tricia Ploessl, 45, died Friday after another driver accelerated quickly in the parking lot and struck her as she was getting into her own vehicle.
Hopes for rate cut help push all 3 major indexes
NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market climbed again Tuesday on hopes for a coming cut to interest rates.
Test your civics knowledge
Questions:
'Does no one have any idea?'
It’s been nearly a decade since Eve Galanter, a retired teacher and reporter in Madison, read the news story that led her to start a statewide competition to get high schoolers excited about government.
How a Madison woman’s question sparked a growing statewide civics contest
The annual quiz game about government and democracy has doubled in size since the Wisconsin Newspaper Association started it. The brainchild of a retired teacher-turned-reporter, it encourages young people to become civically engaged.
US sends envoys to both sides
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday his plan to end the war in Ukraine was “fine-tuned” and he’s sending envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to meet with Ukrainian officials.
After killing high-speed rail 15 years ago, Scott Walker says Madison Amtrak line still a 'dumb idea'
The former governor contends he “was right to kill this idea years ago.”
Some families 'adopt' turkeys for Thanksgiving
ERIE, Colo. — “Gus” the turkey spent Thanksgiving week much differently than millions of other unlucky gobblers across the U.S.
Judicial panels selected to review Wisconsin’s congressional maps
Liberal justices Susan Crawford and Janet Protasiewicz rejected motions for their recusal filed earlier this year by Wisconsin’s six Republican members of Congress.
