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Chris Rickert: One student arrested, another deceived equals bad week for UW

Sun, 04/24/2016 - 5:30am
Apparently, you don't have to be a professor, tenured or under contract to commit some truly skeezy behavior and still work at UW-Madison.

'Pale winter plumage': David Bouche wins this week's You Toon caption contest

Sun, 04/24/2016 - 5:30am
David Bouche of Dane is this week’s You Toon winner.

Garden calendar | For the week of April 24

Sun, 04/24/2016 - 5:00am
Tips for your flowers, trees and shrubs.

Badgers women's basketball: Illinois player of year Kathleen Doyle no longer considering UW

Sun, 04/24/2016 - 4:00am
Doyle narrows her list to Indiana, Iowa, Vanderbilt and Nebraska.

Patrick Durkin: Wauzeka man's unofficial pet is a ruffed grouse named 'Henry'

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 11:00pm
Julie Mullikin started wondering if her husband, Mike, was teasing her or imagining things when discussing a ruffed grouse that hangs out with him while he cuts firewood on their 400-acre farm near Wauzeka in southwestern Wisconsin.

Prep roundup: Monroe's Jordan Hirsbrunner gets 14th in Kansas Relays high jump

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 10:45pm
Monroe junior Jordan Hirsbrunner cleared 5 feet in the high jump to finish 14th in the girls high school division of the Kansas Relays track and field meet Saturday in Lawrence, Kansas.

Brewers: Milwaukee starting pitching fails again

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 10:30pm
MILWAUKEE — This is starting to get old for the Milwaukee Brewers.

Watch: Frank Kaminsky scores 15 points in first NBA Playoffs start

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 10:06pm
Kaminsky played 35 minutes and shot 5-of-12 from the field while also pulling down six rebounds in the win. It was the Hornets' first playoff win since 2002.

Prep boys tennis: Memorial's unbeaten Colt Tegtmeier swinging toward a future in tennis

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 9:30pm
Before each serve, Madison Memorial sophomore Colt Tegtmeier fluidly flips the tennis ball behind his back, lofting it into the air before catching it in front of him.

Badgers track and field: Kelsey Card sets new Big Ten standard in shot put

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 9:00pm
For the third time this weekend, senior Kelsey Card smashed a Big Ten record.

Badgers men's golf: UW slumps to 14th at Big Ten tournament

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 9:00pm
Entering the final day of competition, the Badgers are four shots behind Rutgers in 13th and six strokes back of 12th-place Nebraska.

Three accused in fatal shooting of dog taken from Darlington residence

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 8:33pm
Aaron Nielsen, 38, is accused of instructing Troy Jamison, 24, and a 15-year-old boy to kill a dog that allegedly bit Nielsen's daughter.

Badgers volleyball: UW nets six-set split with Illini in exhibition

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 8:00pm
The University of Wisconsin volleyball team continued its spring schedule with its second exhibition match against Illinois.

Badgers football: Illinois prep standout, Hawaii transfer commit

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 7:30pm
Nine players have pledged to join the class of 2017.

Prep wrestling: DeForest's Jackson Hemauer commits to the University of Wisconsin

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 6:45pm
Hemauer, a junior, captured the 160-pound title at this year's WIAA Division 1 state wrestling meet at the Kohl Center.

Don't blame Johnson for politics as usual -- Yvonne Lindl

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 6:00pm
The writer of the April 16 letter "Sen. Johnson doesn't deserve re-election" urged a vote against Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, claiming he’s “one of those Republicans refusing to obey the Constitution.” This was in reference to Johnson’s stance on the…

Kasich is like a nice pair of pants -- Mike Pfrang

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 6:00pm
Mostly when I buy pants, I buy them off the rack, and don’t try them on until I get home. I’ve been wearing pants for quite a few years now, and that usually works out pretty good for me.

'Jesus lunch' constitutionally protected -- Phil Hubble

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 6:00pm
Many people are calling for a halt to the lunches held by Christian parents in Middleton's Fireman's Park, the so-called "Jesus lunch."

Broken economy needs higher wages -- Harry Harris

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 6:00pm
As Jonah Goldberg pointed out in Wednesday's column, "Higher minimum wage is well-intentioned, problematic," raising the minimum wage has its issues. But what he does not say much about is why a higher minimum wage is needed in the first…

Treating gays differenly isn't discrimination -- Monsignor Roger J. Scheckel

Sat, 04/23/2016 - 6:00pm
The front-page article in Monday's State Journal "LGBT bills pit business vs. GOP" reported that certain states and the Republican Party are being punished by some corporate executives for alleged discrimination against same-sex marriages. Throughout the article, discrimination is viewed…

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