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Attorney for Armin Wand III says experts will prove investigators led him to confess to a crime he didn't commit.

A report by UW-Madison agricultural economists says state dairy income increased by $1.2 billion in 2014 and that pushed farm profits in America’s Dairyland to a record $4.3 billion.

The quarterback said on his ESPN radio show in Milwaukee on Tuesday that his injured calf should heal within 6 weeks.

State leaders shouldn’t forget why they created the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. in the first place.

This week's recipe won first place in the State Journal's candies category in 1956 and was submitted by Mrs. Roger A. Lippitt of Madison.

“It is probably known to but very few of the present citizens of our state that Wisconsin has the high distinction of having given Mr. Jefferson Davis … his first public whipping,” wrote the M…

It's an enticing matchup pitting the defending champions against the dominant NFL franchise of the 2000s.

Senior forward Riley Lytle scored 19 points and sparked a 24-11 run in the second quarter that lifted host Poynette to a 54-45 victory over Lake Mills in a Capitol North Conference boys basket…

The Mount Horeb boys basketball team wiped out a 10-point deficit in the third quarter and pulled away for a 61-46 victory over Waunakee in Badger North Conference boys basketball play Tuesday night.

Jordan Weum scored 12 points and Aly Weum had 10 points, helping the Stoughton girls basketball team to a 46-40 win over visiting Sun Prairie on Tuesday.

The Sun Prairie wrestling team scored pins in the final three matches of the night to pull out a 36-34 victory over host Fort Atkinson in a non-conference dual meet Tuesday night.

Junior guard Caity Riley scored 11 of her 24 points in the fourth quarter as host Lake Mills used a big final period to upend Columbus 55-42 in a Capitol North Conference girls basketball game…

If the Lakeside Lutheran girls basketball team has any flaws, they weren’t exposed Tuesday night.

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The Badgers are in the mix as expected for the conference crown, but their closest pursuers may be a surprise.

The University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team produced its most impressive performance of the 2014-15 season Tuesday night, and the result was its most lopsided win ever over Iowa.

A revision to Madison's billboard policy was overturned Tuesday when City Council members failed to override a veto by Mayor Paul Soglin.

Read the prepared text of Pres. Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, delivered to a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca claimed the most in daily expenses last year out of 132 state lawmakers.