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Jonathan Lucroy has grown weary of hearing his name continually pop up in trade rumors. As long as the Milwaukee Brewers veteran catcher continues to produce at the plate like he has most of the season, though, the chatter isn’t…

Noisy dogs alerted a homeowner to a fire reported at 2:13 a.m. Friday at 301 Crescent St. in Mazomanie, according to Dane County Sheriff's Office reports.

MILWAUKEE — The Waukesha Catholic Memorial girls soccer program found itself in a familiar spot on Thursday: Waiting to play for another WIAA state championship.

MILWAUKEE — Vanessa Narveson had no idea how it happened.

The shortstop's three-run blast helps Madison improve to a a South Division-leading 11-6.

GRAND CHUTE — The Prairie du Chien baseball team was its own worst enemy Thursday, and the cost was a WIAA Division 3 state championship.

A suspect left the area but was later taken into custody in Madison, the release said.

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…