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A nation desperately in need of healing instead has more lives to grieve after a shooting Sunday morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, left three law enforcement officers dead and three wounded.

Dane County Jail staff prevented an inmate from killing herself Sunday morning when she was discovered unresponsive in a jail cell.

The administrator of the state elections commission, Michael Haas, confirmed that the ads went on air the week of July 11.

Critics of a proposed river master plan question why it is being approved at a meeting five hours north in Ashland.

Ryan has focused on poverty since his 2012 vice presidential run and continues to do so as House speaker.

Thirty-five years with a Wisconsin driver’s license and against all prodigious odds I have never hit a deer.

Jerry W. Johnson of Madison is this week’s You Toon winner. Congrats, Jerry!

The melting point is the temperature at which molecules in a solid can move past each other and form a liquid. The boiling point, on the other hand, involves liquids and gases.

Here’s something I never thought I’d have to say.

Kris Agnew’s two-out RBI single caps a four-run 10th inning.

The right-hander takes a no-hit bid into the eighth inning and improves to 4-0 on the season.

TROON, Scotland — Steve Stricker showed up at Royal Troon thinking this might be his last major championship. The Madison golfer can count on at least three more.

The Cambridge native picks up his 38th career win, but could face points sanctions after his car fails a post-race laser inspection.

I will not speculate on Paul Hornung’s motivation for suing helmet maker Riddell. But if his action shines light on the very serious issue of brain injury, it will be a positive.

The divisiveness in the United States of America is at a turning point. We can choose the route of further division, which in most cases leads to violent conflict. Or we can approach the table of compromise and meet with…

The July 13 article “DA called out for not doing job, disagrees,” describes Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne’s failure to help shorten the time arrested persons stay in jail before their first court appearance, when they may be released…

Six years ago, my daughter spent a semester in Cape Town, South Africa, through the UW-Madison Study Abroad program. She arrived to a shared house with one lock in the whole residence and a 2-foot-high wall surrounding the property, not…

I was born in the spring of 1937, a little less than five years before the start of World War II.

The only similarity between a Daisy Red Ryder BB gun and a Model 94 Winchester .30-30 is they both have lever actions.