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WHITEWATER — Senior forward Ron Patten came off the bench to make four 3-pointers and score a game-high 19 points as the No. 2 UW-Whitewater men’s basketball team won its fourth Wisconsin Inte…

The same regulatory approach that spawned the old Ma Bell oligarchy and stifled telecom innovation for generations may not be a timely fit for the Internet.

Gov. Scott Walker has developed a pattern of behavior that is not gubernatorial and certainly not presidential. The pattern is blaming others for his political missteps and mistakes.

I am supporting Shawn Pfaff for mayor of Fitchburg. I have lived in the same part of this city for more than 35 years and have seen the many changes we have gone through. I am not wealthy or a…

Right-to-work laws break the power of the unions, and in the long run we all lose.

My grandfather's family members were poor sharecroppers in the '20s and '30s. When he got old enough, he joined the Army and served in the Philippines during World War II. In the Korean War he…

And then there were two.

I woke up in my house filled with toxic Chinese drywall. I put on my clothes made in Sri Lanka. I eat my Chilean grapes with the California factory-farm yogurt that I keep in my Korean refrigerator.

Gerard P. Pehler of Oregon is this week’s You Toon winner.

Madison police are investigating an incident in which shots were reported fired outside of West Towne Mall late Saturday afternoon.

Middleton and Madison Memorial earned repeat trips to next week’s WIAA Division 1 state team gymnastics tournament, finishing first and second in Saturday’s Middleton sectional.

The top-tier presidential contender impressed many attendees at the annual gathering of conservative activists.

Scott Walker is leading in the latest poll from Iowa, with 25 percent of likely Republican caucus-goers saying they support him. 

MADISON - Camille Guérin-Gonzales died on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Madison, after 14 months of living exuberantly, purposefully, and consciously with a cancer diagnosis…

FITCHBURG - Genevieve (Jones) Jackson, age 102, passed away on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015. She was born to Margaret (Blaney) and Thomas Jones on Nov. 24, 1912, in Wales, U.K. She came to America wi…

MONONA / HARRISON, Ark. - Robert Preston "R.P." Phillips, age 95, of Monona, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015, at Oakwood Village Prairie Ridge in Madison. He was born on July 7, 1919, …

AMES, Iowa - Ronald Glen Marshall was born April 12, 1925, in Madison, Wis. He attended Lincoln Elementary School and Central High, both in Madison. He then graduated from the University of Wi…

SUN PRAIRIE - Pearl J. Skalitzky, age 89, died on Friday, Feb. 27, 2015, at Agrace HospiceCare in Fitchburg, surrounded by her family and friends. She was born on her father's birthday, March …

MADISON - Asher Anthony Steinhauer was born on Feb. 2, 2015, at 1:05 a.m. He was 6 lbs 13 oz and 19 ½ inches long.

MADISON - Donna Lou Stalheim left this world on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, at home surrounded by her loving family. She was born in Richland Center on May 14, 1930, the daughter of Joseph and Ve…