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LAKE MILLS - John Gerard Schoofs died peacefully on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at Mayo Hospital in Eau Claire.

MADISON - LeRoy F. "HOOT" Holzwarth, age 86, of Madison, passed away on Wednesday, April 20, 2016, at UW Hospital. He was born on Aug. 28, 1929, in Madison, the son of Roy and Jeanette Holzwarth. LeRoy married Elizabeth Haas…

Superintendent Jennifer Cheatham's recommendation for the 2016-17 school year now goes to the School Board.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that 94 million people in the U.S. over the age of 16 don’t have jobs and are not actively seeking employment.

This was not the way Greg Kazmierski and Cathy Stepp wanted the “new era” to begin. They gambled that none of the 72 CDACs would actually vote for an antlerless-only season.

Students should be able to loop in and out of college as needed, with more online and hybrid classes

It might be a good idea to cover sensitive plants Friday night in the Madison area.

One of the pieces of graffiti by a student protesting the climate of racism at UW didn't seem "anti-racist."

Doyle, the player of the year in Illinois last season, has narrowed her list to UW, Iowa, Indiana, Marquette, Vanderbilt and Nebraska.

This one's for John. He's a reader who took issue with my recent column arguing that conservatism has become an angry and incoherent mess.

Fitchburg police are investigating a report of a man in a car asking a 5-year-old child what school bus the child was going to use, before the man spotted an adult in the area and quickly drove away.

Lorenz and Steck earn 10th place at recent national high school competition in Missouri.

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week.

A 79-year-old Madison man knew a scam when he heard it this week, not going along when a caller claiming to be his granddaughter told him she was in trouble and needed money right away.

Kleppe's selection still must be approved by the school board in May. He would replace Travis Rohrer, who resigned in January.

A Madison man who told a candy wrapper tosser "I believe you dropped this" while handing the wrapper back to the tosser was knocked out for this courtesy, by a friend of the tosser.

In the polarized environment of modern American politics, there aren't many things that liberals and conservatives agree on. But they should be able to join hands and lift their voices in unison to say, ''Bernie Sanders will not do.''

The Packers are favored in 15 of their 16 regular-season games in 2016.

The journey toward a more perfect union was quickened with the announcement that Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, Union spy and activist for women’s suffrage, will grace the front of the $20 bill. The Tubman twenty will be unveiled in 2020, timed…