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A decade ago, when former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Chvala, D-Madison, was being prosecuted for secretly funneling money around campaign finance laws, some of the amounts were $50,000 and $75,000.

The deal was engineered by Heinz's owner, the Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital, and billionaire investor Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway.

This week's recipe took honorable mention in the State Journal's cheese and eggs category in 1976 and was submitted by Susan Frisbie of Madison.

On April 25 in 1898, the U.S. declared war on Spain. The Spanish had violently suppressed rebellions in Cuba and the Philippines, and policymakers in the U.S. said they wanted to liberate the …

“He’d absolutely love to be back in Green Bay, so we’re going to see if we can get something done,” Guion's agent Seth Katz said.

Mount Horeb's Martha Koller Faust, who coached the Vikings to the Division 1 state title, is named All-Area Coach of the Year

Segura had three hits and three RBIs, and the Milwaukee Brewers scored seven times in the fifth inning.

It would be an embarrassment of riches, except that no one should be embarrassed of winning.

MILWAUKEE — A six-game losing streak ended in dramatic fashion for the Milwaukee Bucks.

Planners for the Wisconsin Ag Education & Innovation Complex have turned away from Evansville and are looking at Marshall because they say the village offers a better location and business…

Marcus Paige, the driving force behind the North Carolina men’s basketball team, was distraught to the point of tears.

LOS ANGELES — A little more than an hour after the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team had opened the NCAA tournament with a victory over Coastal Carolina last Friday night, Frank Ka…

The group only intercepted four passes last season, two of them by then-senior Peniel Jean.

It was refreshing to read Doug Erickson's story in Sunday's State Journal about Madison police Officer Matt Kenny's many commendations. It appears that he, like most police officers, has been …

Kudos to Dane County Board member Leland Pan for refusing to apologize for letting the protesters into the City-County Building.

A foolish comment in Ben Bromley's column, "Spring forward into chaos," in the Sunday Opinion section is likely to hurt many readers.

Columnist Ben Bromley has joined the lazy whiners who complain about daylight saving time.

Interviews with residents helped investigators determine the March 16 fire at 1138 Williamson St. started in a first-floor bathroom with an unspecified mechanical or electrical failure related…

It has been an Iranian tradition since 1979 to end Friday prayers with chants of “Death to America!”

The former office manager for a Madison dental office pleaded guilty Tuesday to theft and forgery charges connected to the embezzlement of more than $166,000 in cash and checks over a four-yea…