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One hundred of the top girls basketball players from Wisconsin’s Class of 2016 will take to the Court of Champions at JustAGame Fieldhouse in Wisconsin Dells today for the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Classic.

An 18-year-old DeForest man who was driving nearly 100 miles per hour last year when he struck another car in Windsor and killed a 77-year-old woman, was sentenced Thursday to five years of probation for the woman's death and a…

A Monona man who prosecutors said dealt the heroin that killed one Waupun man in February and caused the near-fatal overdose of another was found guilty Thursday of first-degree reckless homicide and several other charges.

WASHINGTON — When in his 1964 GOP acceptance speech Barry Goldwater declared that “extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice,” a reporter sitting near journalist/historian Theodore White famously exclaimed: “My God, he’s going to run as Barry Goldwater!”

Donald Trump and U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Janesville, realizing their political fates are intertwined, have chosen to focus on the common ground between them (very mature) and managed to negotiate compromise without sacrificing (not too much) their separate principles.…

Orlando was horrific. But it was not the worst massacre in U.S. history, by far.

Several mass shootings ago, President Barack Obama said, “Enough is enough.” I agreed then, and I do now. We have to wake up our do-nothing Congress.

Some believe gun control is the answer. How successful has it been in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where terrorist have used suicide bombers?

I am embarrassed for Ald. Samba Baldeh.

Calling the injuries a Fitchburg man inflicted on his girlfriend's son "horrific," a Dane County judge sentenced the man to 20 years in prison Thursday for causing the boy's child abuse death.

The latest Marquette poll shows more Wisconsinites feel they can trust Donald Trump to be honest than Hillary Clinton.

Best-Selling Books Week Ended June 12th.

MIDDLETON - Eva Maria Hinnendael, age 65, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, surrounded by her loving family. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at ST. THOMAS AQUINAS CATHOLIC CHURCH, 602 Everglade Drive, Madison, at 11…

BIG FLATS - Donald E. Krahn, age 81, of the town of Big Flats, Wis., died Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at his home.

MADISON - Catherine Draves, age 89, formerly of Madison, Wis., died peacefully on June 1, 2016, at The Commons on Marice in Eagan, Minn. Born July 8, 1926, to John and Anna Noble of Richland Center, Wis., she is preceded…

STOUGHTON - Derek Metz, age 30, of Stoughton, passed away on Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at the Metz Family home. He was born on March 20, 1986, in Madison, the son of Daniel P. and Leslie C. Metz.

The county is abandoning plans to for homeless day resources center at the former Messner building.

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Black Earth, Thursday endorsed Hillary Clinton to be the Democratic presidential nominee.

American Family Mutual Insurance Company is seeking to expand its corporate footprint on paths that may lead to expansion into non-insurance products and services, the company announced Thursday.

In a lawn tractor versus cement truck accident Thursday, the lawn tractor driver was seriously injured.