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OUR VIEW: A modest increase in user fees to keep major road projects going is justified and more responsible than excessive borrowing

Scooter Gennett begins the rally with a two-run single.

UW-Whitewater right-hander Heath Renz threw five solid innings and the Madison Mallards supported him with 17 hits to rout the Lakeshore Chinooks 15-3 in a Northwoods League amateur baseball game in front of 6,274 Tuesday night at Warner Park.

Attempting the most difficult dive in the history of the Madison All-City Diving Meet paid off for Monona’s Henry Carman on Tuesday.

Tough job

CHICAGO — University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez said Tuesday at Big Ten Media Days he has visited with the Green Bay Packers and the organization would have interest in hosting another football game at Lambeau Field.

CHICAGO — During a summer of racial tension and unnecessary violence across the country, Dare Ogunbowale felt, even more than mad or upset, disappointed in society’s inability to see through the differences in each other.

CHICAGO -- The 1987 campaign for the University of Wisconsin football program was the high-water mark of the Don Morton era, which isn’t saying much.

GREEN BAY — Some think Jared Abbrederis and Trevor Davis are battling for one wide receiver position on the Green Bay Packers' final roster.

Recently, WikiLeaks released thousands of emails belonging to the Democratic Party. And they show that, well, the Democratic Party isn't very democratic.

Some people have perceived the targeted killing of law enforcement officers as a racially motivated consequence of the Black Lives Matter movement and the naïve encouragement of this movement by President Barack Obama.

U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, R-Glenbeulah, recently parroted the Republican talking point that President Barack Obama is responsible for the nation’s apparently worsening racial divide.

I am angry.

Two men were charged Tuesday with shooting another man in January after duct-taping the man and his girlfriend in a bedroom of the couple's apartment while their children were nearby, according to a criminal complaint.

A Pokemon hunt did not go as expected for a pair of players early Tuesday as a man allegedly brandished a knife and a woman with him struck an officer in the nose after police showed up to the scene,…

Capstran was a first-team selection as a receiver on the Badger North all-conference football team.

BROOKLYN - Letty Ballesta Breiby was born into eternal life on Sunday, July 24, 2016, the daughter of Stephanie Leake and Mathew Breiby of Brooklyn.

WISCONSIN DELLS - David L. Lake, age 86, of Wisconsin Dells, Wis., passed away on Sunday, July 24, 2016, at The Willows Nursing and Rehab in Sun Prairie, Wis.

MADISON - Ruth A. Meister, age 86, died on July 25, 2016. She was born on Aug. 6, 1929, at St. Mary's Hospital to Otto and Theresa (Andre) Lampe. She graduated from Madison East in 1947 and St. Mary's School…

MADISON - Seymour Abrahamson, Professor Emeritus of Zoology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died in Madison on Saturday, July 23, 2016. He was born in New York City on Nov. 28, 1927. His parents were Benjamin Abrahamson and Molly Finklestein…