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PRAIRIE DU SAC -- Despite an all-night effort using specialized equipment to heat its vines, a heavy frost that set in last weekend nearly killed the entire crop of grapes at Wollersheim Winery.

A crash into an East Side home Monday night caused a natural gas leak at the home, with the driver injured but nobody hurt in the house.

A scientist who is a pioneer in studying how the body regenerates damaged tissue will be joining the UW-Madison faculty this fall.

It will be the first major college football game played at Lambeau Field.

Scaredy Cat oatmeal stout followed up a bronze medal at the Great American Beer Festival last fall with a gold this month at the World Beer Cup.

Weather conditions weren't very good for farmers to work in fields in Wisconsin last week, but planting proceeded at a good pace, according to the weekly crop progress report.

A crash in Lodi Monday night was caused by the female driver suffering a medical emergency that resulted in her death, police say.

If you like sunny skies and mild temperatures, you won't find a better week to be in Madison than this one.

“Further cuts would harm access, affect overall quality and erode economic competitiveness," the council said in a new report.

In the parlance of the civil rights movement, domestic partnerships were a separate but unequal accommodation.

Woods, who underwent two back surgeries last fall, said he’s getting stronger and hitting the ball better.

The first baseman halts a 0-for-23 skid with a 443-foot home run and later adds the go-ahead RBI double.

Baseball

Schwoerer wins the 200- and 400-meter dashes; Jefferson wins the girls team title as Mikaela Grant wins four events.

The Big Eight game, called by the 10-run rule in the fifth inning, could boost Sun Prairie's WIAA seeding chances.

The senior will lead the improved Spartans into the Big Eight Conference meet on Thursday, followed by the WIAA postseason.

Boys and Girls Club of Dane County CEO Michael Johnson said it's time for elected officials to stop "over-studying" issues of racial disparities and start funding solutions to them.

The committee overseeing planning for the county-owned campus expressed little interest in endorsing the $52 million housing and retail project proposed for part of it.

The State Journal has demonstrated a lack of journalistic integrity by its constant use of the term "gun violence," as opposed to simply calling violence what it is: violence. This is politically charged speech and a change from normal reporting…

Phil Hands' overzealous desire to bad mouth Republicans in general and Gov. Scott Walker in particular led him to create the insulting cartoon in Friday's State Journal. It was apparently meant to belittle his favorite targets, but instead he made…