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The vests, with ceramic plates inside, can help medical staff get to injured people more quickly and safely in active-shooter scenarios.

Elkhorn students chanted "Trump, build that wall" toward Hispanic Beloit female soccer players last week.

An April 6 Wisconsin State Journal article reported that University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross cancelled an agenda item scheduled for the next UW Board of Regents meeting. Cross cancelled presentations by System chancellors, highlighting the impact of Gov.…

Monday's letter "Students should be able to handle ID rule" asks why the new voter ID requirements were a significant problem in the student districts.

The Fort Atkinson senior shoots 3-under-par 69 for individual honors; Milwaukee Marquette earns a repeat team title.

A Madison man who splashed gasoline onto a woman inside a town of Blooming Grove convenience store, then tried to light it, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison.

A Madison man was placed on probation Thursday after pleading guilty to a reduced sexual assault charge and bail jumping, for touching the breasts of a 14-year-old girl while volunteering at a Madison high school, then violating the conditions of…

So House Speaker Paul Ryan is officially out of the White Knight line-up.

UW will play at Creighton in the Gavitt Games in the 2016-17 season.

Best-Selling Books Week Ended April 10th.

Garcia strikes out 13 in a complete-game 7-0 win Thursday at Busch Stadium.

MADISON - Hung N. Pham, age 63, passed away on Wednesday, April 13, 2016. Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday, April 16, 2016, at the CRESS CENTER, 6021 University Ave., Madison, WI 53705 with a celebration…

MADISON - Dorothea "Dot" (Birkeland) Kahl, age 84, of Madison, passed away on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. Funeral services will be held at GUNDERSON EAST FUNERAL HOME, 5203 Monona Drive, Madison, at 2:30 p.m., on Monday, April 18, 2016. Visitation…

TOMAH - Randall William Ahlstrom, age 91, died on Wednesday, April 13, 2016, at Attic Angels in Middleton, Wis.

HILLSBORO - Donald C. Potter, age 78, of rural Hillsboro, Wis., passed away on Wednesday, April 13, 2016, at home surrounded by his family, after a battle with cancer.

Spielman plans to play tennis at Minnesota State University-Mankato. Huggins plans to compete in women's cross country and track and field at Michigan Tech.

It would be very hard to dislike the weather forecast for Madison for the upcoming weekend and beyond.

Dane County attendees were overwhelmingly in favor of key proposals to toughen mining rules and give more independence to the Department of Natural Resources at the 2016 Wisconsin Conservation Congress county meetings and fish and wildlife hearings.

Two Madison men joined a growing list of men charged with the sexual assault of the same 15-year-old girl, this time at a West Side apartment earlier this year.

If you see little flakes falling from the sky and there's a distinct smell of something burning, it most likely is a controlled burn near you.