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Bachar — the Warhawks' top pitcher and a kickoff specialist/punter on Whitewater's football team — and the Warhawks open tournament Friday night at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute.

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ATLANTA — This is more of what the Milwaukee Brewers were hoping for from pitcher Wily Peralta.

About 150 community members gathered to remember Tuneija Tornai-Jackson, who police say was shot and killed Tuesday by her father, who then killed himself.

Nyah Banik scored once and added an assist in the first half to lead the host Madison West girls soccer team to a 2-1 victory over Hartland Arrowhead in a regular-season, non-conference game.

Senior Nicole Neitzel went 2-for-4 with two home runs to lead the Verona softball team to an 8-4 victory over visiting Madison East in a WIAA Division 1 regional final on Thursday.

Cindy Archer alleged Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and his investigators violated her 1st and 4th Amendment rights when they searched her home in September 2011.

The British import takes the 100 and 200 and also qualifies for the state meet in the long jump as area athletes book their trips to UW-La Crosse.

LaDerris Dickerson, a co-founder of “The Hops Museum” in Madison, which includes exhibits on brewing and creative space for artists and entrepreneurs, was named in a nationwide probe of Gangster Disciples gang members.

Thunderstorms force most of Thursday's events to be pushed back a day as Badgers seek to earn berths in the national championships.

The grant will go toward extending Commerce Park Drive southward, and then constructing an east-west street at the end of the extension to be known as Sub-Zero Parkway.

WASHINGTON — How do you distinguish a foreign policy “idealist” from a “realist,” an optimist from a pessimist?

A federal judge hearing a challenge to more than a dozen election laws said Thursday that he will make a ruling by the end of July.

This past Saturday I visited Madison's wonderful Dane County Farmers' Market on the Capitol Square. As usual, and to be expected, it was very crowded.

Those who have their undies in a bundle over transgender people using certain bathrooms should just think about the issue for a minute. North Carolina's ban on using bathrooms that don't correspond with your sex assigned at birth is totally…

The great Badger baller named Hayes,

I agree in part with Chris Rickert’s recent column in which he seemed to say that, regardless of their foibles, the African-American men who were recently killed loved their families and were loved by their families. They were human beings…

I read the State Journal's article about Attorney General Brad Schimel's intent to join other states in a lawsuit to thwart the "latest power grab" by President Barack Obama. This is in response, in part, to the president's wish to…

Sunday's letter to the editor "Let's put a tax on all of the new tax schemes" asks a good question. If the revenue from a steadily rising carbon fee were returned to households as a monthly dividend, won’t people just…