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Wider sharing of livers could reduce geographic disparities in to transplants, but transportation costs could increase, and Madison could be worse off.

Forrest Gump's mom was right: You never know what you're going to get when you open a box Madison Chocolate Company chocolates.

BROOKFIELD / MADISON - James Rust Emery passed away on June 15 , 2015. Born on Oct. 2, 1923, in Highland Center, Iowa, he was the son of Glen and Bertha (Millhouse) Emery. In August 1942, Jim …

RICHLAND CENTER - Mildred Lavine passed away on June 20, 2015, at the Richland Hospital. Mildred is survived by an adopted daughter, Joy (Bob) Kraus, Gary (Carol) and Sara Kraus and several ni…

PARDEEVILLE - Robert P. "Bob" Kamrath, age 63, of Pardeeville, passed away peacefully on Saturday, June 20, 2015.

NEW GLARUS - Dwight W. Elmer, age 88, of New Glarus, passed away on Sunday, June 21, 2015, at the New Glarus Home. He was born on July 5, 1926, in New Glarus, to his parents, Herbert and Rache…

BOSCOBEL - Burnell G. Bodenbender, age 87, of Boscobel, passed away on Sunday, June 21, 2015, at Gundersen Boscobel Area Health Care in Boscobel. He was born on April 25, 1928, in Avon, S.D., …

BELOIT - Susan P. Skaife, age 72, of Beloit, died Saturday, June 20, 2015, at Mercy Medical Center. She was born June 3, 1943, to the late Gerald and Mary (Lawrence) Vincent in Madison. Sue gr…

ALBANY - Madeline I. Atkinson, age 91, of Albany, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Monday, June 22, 2015, at Valley Park Assisted Living in Albany. She was born on Feb. 28, 1924, the dau…

NORTH FREEDOM / MADISON /WAUNAKEE / STOUGHTON - Marian N. Taplick, age 100, passed away on Sunday, June 21, 2015, at Harmony Assisted Living in Stoughton. Per Marian's wishes, no services will…

MADISON - Kenneth Warren Pritchard Jr., age 58, of Madison, Wis., passed away at his home on Sunday, June 7, 2015.

DANE - Evelyn F. Schmidt, age 85, passed away on Saturday, June 20, 2015. She was born on Dec. 20, 1929. Evelyn married Norman P. Schmidt on April 14, 1945; he preceded her in death in 1985. S…

DARLINGTON / STOUGHTON - Monica Jean (Fitzsimons) Dorman, age 87, passed away peacefully on Monday, June 22, 2015, at her home at Harmony Assisted Living in Stoughton. Her five children were w…

COTTAGE GROVE - Kathleen M. Harry, age 79, passed away and joined her husband on Sunday, June 21, 2015, and is now our guardian angel. She was born on Feb. 25, 1936, in Tomah. Kathy married Do…

A man who was charged in October with a heroin overdose death that occurred nearly eight years earlier was sentenced to three years of probation Monday after pleading guilty to a lesser charge.

Downed power lines and trees from powerful storm create havoc throughout southwest Wisconsin 

Board members would receive a 90 percent pay increase under the proposal. 

As the Kremlin stokes the conflict in Ukraine and ratchets up tensions with NATO, there’s lots of talk about a Cold War redux.

“It doesn’t look real but I know it is,” student says after viewing Saturn.

Gov. Scott Walker's spokeswoman says he will give away at least $3,500 in contributions from the leader of a white supremacist group that reportedly influenced Dylann Roof, the suspect in the …