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The UW senior registers a huge PR in the final event to bolster his lead after the first five events.

The right-hander pitches brilliantly into the seventh inning and the second baseman drives in three runs.

The Mallards beat Lakeshore to win their first game of the season without scoring at least seven runs.

Authorities have not located a victim following reports of a shooting on the city's Southwest Side.

Madison City Council members and Police Chief Mike Koval may struggle to find common ground after divisive days recently.

Increases to certain payment methods could range between 5 percent and a little over 24 percent and would go in effect Aug. 28 if approved by the City Council.

A detective who was doing surveillance on Wednesday at Randall Elementary School saw a man who matched the suspect's description and arrested Erik Pillar, police said.

Six games into the 2016 season, the Verona girls soccer team could have been on the ropes.

The Wisconsin Republican-run Legislature's inability to come up with a workable solution for the state’s crumbling roads and deteriorating bridges has become personal for me.

It's funny how UW-Madison, which claims to be reeling from budget cuts by those nasty old Republicans in the state Legislature, has no trouble forking out $47 million to "upgrade" (gentrify) Witte Hall. This is merely one step (along with…

As I look at our great country and traditions falling apart, and at the extremely poor presidential candidates, I can only think we are on a road to ruin.

If you think you'll be voting for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump for president, you may not have that opportunity.

Support is growing for the preservation of the Annie C. Stewart Memorial Fountain in Vilas Park. This long neglected and often vandalized sculpture is a part of Madison history, and one of our oldest (if not the oldest) commissioned works…

Developers Bradley Hutter and Brad Duesler hope to end the years of floundering Middleton's public art plan has experienced by footing the majority of the bill for a sculpture at the Parmenter Street roundabout.

New aircraft could protect the Air National Guard's Truax Field from closing. It is now home to some of the oldest fighter jets in the military.

THE BASICS

WAUNAKEE - Donna J. Dauck, age 86, of Waunakee, Wis., died on Wednesday, June 8, 2016, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg with her family by her side.

MADISON / PHOENIX, Ariz. - Joyce Elaine Gafke, age 92, passed away peacefully on Friday, May 27, 2016, in Phoenix, Ariz. She was born on July 2, 1923, to Walter August Gaeth and Edna Blizzard in Madison, Wis.

BRODHEAD - Steven Lee "H Bear" Harry, age 60, died unexpectedly Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at home.

MCFARLAND - Jeffrey Allen "Nels" Nelson passed away peacefully on Monday, June 6, 2016, after a brief illness, surrounded by his family. Jeff was born on June 9, 1966, in Marshfield, Wis., to Martha and Darryl Nelson. He worked for…