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Prep boys basketball: Big third quarter lifts Madison Memorial past Madison West

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 11:15pm
Madison Memorial boys basketball coach Steve Collins wasn’t happy to see his Big Eight Conference co-leading Spartans trail visiting Madison West at halftime Friday night.

USHL: Capitols' losing streak hits three games after Black Hawks' rout

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 11:15pm
A pair of goals from River Falls native Tom Novak were more than enough Friday night as the visiting Waterloo Black Hawks overpowered the struggling Madison Capitols 5-0 in a U.S. Hockey Leagu…

Prep boys basketball: Troy Slaby scores 25 points to lead South leader Stoughton past Oregon

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 11:15pm
Sophomore point guard Troy Slaby sparked the visiting Stoughton boys basketball team with 25 points Friday night, leading a 47-36 victory over Oregon.

Prep girls basketball: Marshall clinches share of Capitol South title; Lakeside locks up share of North crown

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 11:15pm
Junior point guard Kiana Canon made two free throws with 12 seconds remaining Friday night to give the Marshall girls basketball team at least a share of the Capitol North Conference title wit…

Prep girls basketball: Late spurt lifts Portage past Sauk Prairie

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 11:15pm
Junior Caitlyn Hibner scored a game-high 25 points to lead host Portage to a 56-45 victory over Sauk Prairie in a Badger North Conference girls basketball game Friday night.

Badgers sports: Wrestling team beats Rutgers via tiebreaker

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 11:15pm
Ricky Robertson scored a decision in the final match, and the University of Wisconsin wrestling team closed out its home slate with a 19-18 Big Ten Conference victory over Rutgers on Friday at…

Prep boys basketball: Sean Chislom's last-minute shot sends McFarland past East Troy

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 11:15pm
Senior forward Sean Chislom hit the winning shot with 15 seconds left to send host McFarland to a 56-55 victory over East Troy in a Rock Valley Conference boys basketball game on Friday night.

Prep boys basketball: Sy Staver, Mineral Point pull away from Cuba City

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 11:15pm
Mineral Point sweeps the regular-season series with Cuba City, but the teams are likely to see each other in the postseason.

Badgers women's hockey: UW escapes Duluth with shootout point

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 11:15pm
The No. 3 University of Wisconsin hockey team remains unbeaten this season against No. 7 Minnesota-Duluth.

Bucks: Fourth-quarter comeback falls short against Rockets

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 11:15pm
Near defeat turns into fifth straight win.

Badgers men's hockey: Penn State pulls away with four straight goals

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 10:00pm
Four unanswered goals lead to another defeat for the University of Wisconsin men's hockey team.

Patrick Durkin: With 38 years at the DNR, Ron Bruch was a keeper

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 6:48pm
“We decided I had to give up those 800-mile, 60- to 70-hour work weeks,” Ron Bruch said of conversations with his wife Kathy, after suffering an ailment the past two years. “It was the hardest…

Religious abortion views impose on society -- Alan Gold

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 6:00pm
The paper is again full of letters concerning abortion and religion.

Judge Doyle square is unsustainable -- Mike Neuman

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 6:00pm
The whole idea of the city of Madison demanding that the Municipal Building be replaced by a hotel having a minimum of 250 rooms for the convention center is asinine.

Some ways to find efficiencies at UW -- Len Rogan

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 6:00pm
It seems to me that if UW faculty put their minds to it, they could come up with any number of ways to increase their output and cut waste.

State tax officials responding to tax fraud threat

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 6:00pm
Wisconsin's taxing authority was on "high alert" Friday in response to a report that income tax software giant Intuit briefly stopped filing state income tax returns through its Turbo Tax software.

Republican lawmakers push to repeal 48-hour waiting period for handgun purchases

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 5:30pm
A bill currently being circulated by GOP lawmakers would eliminate so-called "48-hour rule" for handgun purchases.

Two Madison start-ups are in gener8tor's winter class

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 5:15pm
The Madison and Milwaukee business accelerator kicked off its sixth program on Friday.

Former Madison man convicted of tax evasion, harassing IRS agents

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 5:13pm
A former Madison man was convicted Friday of 26 criminal tax-related charges that included harassing IRS agents and impeding their investigation of him by filing false documents, the U.S. Atto…

Tech and Biotech: PPD adds space and jobs; Alfalight wins Raytheon contract

Fri, 02/06/2015 - 4:30pm
PPD is one of Middleton's largest employers and one of the biggest biotechs in the Madison area.

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