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A Madison man was arrested early Wednesday morning after he allegedly tried to sexually assault a woman Downtown.

For two years in a row, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made headlines for all the wrong reasons.

The 2016 presidential race is so far down in the dumps that it counted as good news Tuesday when a leading candidate found out she’s likely not going to get charged with a crime.

Three women from Vernon County have been arrested on multiple drug charges, all stemming from a suspicious vehicle being stopped in the village of LaFarge.

A Madison man walking on the Near East Side Tuesday night was robbed at gunpoint.

While some sparkling wine leans more toward the contemplative than the whimsical, ideally it all finds its way to some degree into the “Fun” circle of the bubbly Venn Diagram.

A Janesville man driving out of control in a neighborhood Tuesday afternoon crashed his car at least six times before getting arrested for alleged drunken driving.

Two men who used movie money to buy drinks at a Near East Side bar are being sought by Madison police.

There was a year when I demonstrated how to make ribs eight times on the same national morning show. Each time, I would remind them we did ribs the last time, and the producer would say, “I know but everyone…

A Stoughton woman who thought she was getting a ride to Madison from an acquaintance was robbed instead, then was pushed out of a moving car on the Southwest Side.

On an offensive line that struggled for the majority of the 2015 season, Michael Deiter emerged as a bright spot for the University of Wisconsin.

The well-regarded Japanese noodle restaurant run by Chris and Hiroko Messer has closed after four years.

The driver killed in a head-on crash in Dodge County on Monday has been identified as Caylee Krinke-Sauer, 20, of Cambria.

A brief Holy See statement said Francis expressed to Beau Solomon's parents "feelings of deepest sympathy and compassion, and his closeness in prayer to the Lord for the young man who died so tragically."

A man suspected of robbing a Lodi bank in June has turned himself in to police.

The beautiful weather in Wisconsin this summer isn't just great for the people but great for growing crops as well, according to the latest crop report from the USDA.

Although summer has already arrived, spring’s rhubarb is still on my mind. It carries me back to an innocent childhood experience of sitting on the ground beside a rhubarb plant in our backyard and shaking salt on a raw stalk…

Utility crews and street crews were scrambling Wednesday morning to restore power and open roads throughout southern Wisconsin after strong thunderstorms blew through the region overnight.

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Load up on popcorn: The Republican ticket may be poised to go to 11. According to numerous reports, Donald Trump is considering Newt Gingrich as his running mate. And as traffic-baiters like to say on the Internet: You won’t believe…