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COLUMBUS — Lodi senior Garrett McGraw and his teammates had Friday’s doubleheader against Columbus circled on the calendar.

Blake Komplin scored the deciding run on a dropped third strike, capping a two-run rally in the seventh inning that gave the Madison Memorial baseball team a wild 12-11 victory over host Monona Grove on Friday night at Fireman’s Park…

More than 30 students spent their day off from school sprucing up their North Side neighborhood.

Melanie Cross and Kelsey Jenkins also drive in runs for UW.

Bailey Connery, 18, died in the crash Thursday on South Syene Road, the Dane County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday.

Lauren Chypyha's triumphs at No. 1 singles and doubles help lead the way.

The Clean Tech competition was held in Chicago last week.

Middleton Police Chief Charles Foulke is asking groups supporting and opposing the lunches to remain peaceful at the Tuesday gatherings.

One day last month I listened to a black guy telling those of us at the end of the bar a synopsis of his life. To get out of Mississippi, he moved to Chicago. To get out of Chicago, he…

The writer of the April 6 letter "America shouldn't mirror ISIS violence" tells us to stop bombing and fighting ISIS.

Establishing Madison Area Technical College programs on Madison's South Side would be cost ineffective and, more important, would limit the number of programs available to the area's residents.

This right-to-work law has a very misleading name.

If you want to know what's wrong with Washington, D.C., just watch the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate refuse to do its constitutional duties in the Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination.

I found Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley's defeat of Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg to be a particularly disappointing indicator of the political environment of our state. It appears a significant part of our electorate cares more about ideology than expertise.

The crisis is nearer than most people think. Is it a crisis of capitalism? Is it a crisis of democracy? Maybe both.

Ed Wall was terminated Friday from his job at the Justice Department after disputing a demotion from his old job.

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week.

The Bruce Company, one of the nation’s Top 100 landscape contract businesses and the largest in Wisconsin, has bought Verona-based Landscape Care Company.

MOUNT HOREB - Melvin "Mel" Gruber, age 82, died on Friday, April 15, 2016, at Ingleside Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Ellestad Camacho Funeral Home, 500 N. 8th St., Mount Horeb.

MADISON - James H. "Jim" Kiffel, age 81, passed away at his residence, surrounded by his loving family. A full obituary will appear in Sunday's paper.