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Wisconsin's new 70 mph speed limit will help Gov. Scott Walker get to Iowa faster, as he prepares to run for president. 

Opponents of the measure pointed out that the board takes no state money and even returns 10 percent of revenue it collects from the colleges back to state coffers.

Film writer and "Dirty Dancing" creator Eleanor Bergstein talks about a stage show meant to be "somewhere between a rock concert and a story.”

You’d think Wisconsin’s polar-opposite U.S. senators would be looking for opportunities to show they can work together.

Lodi's Jim Campbell helped turn a book he wrote about his cousin who lived in remote Alaska into a television series.

Fitchburg Mayor Steve Arnold said he plans to budget more than $100,000 this fall for additional Metro Transit routes.

Dear Dr. Hanson: Last summer my 8-year-old daughter had such large reactions to mosquito bites. They were very itchy and she scratched at them a lot. I’m not looking forward to this happening …

With a few holdouts, the shows of the 2014-15 television season have signed off. Some we’ll see again come fall; some — “Revenge,” “Stalker,” “Forever,” “Weird Loners” and several others — wil…

Memorial Day weekend in Madison wouldn’t be the same without the World’s Largest Brat Fest, back for its 33rd year. From a simple picnic in the parking lot at Tom Metcalfe’s Hilldale grocery s…

Veterans for Peace sponsors a Memorial Day display along Atwood Avenue (east of Olbrich Botanical Gardens), with more than 6,600 simulated markers to recognize deaths of U.S. troops in Iraq an…

BASEBALL

Former NFL star Darren Sharper, who already has pleaded guilty or no-contest to sexual assault charges in three states, is set to enter a new plea in a federal case next week in New Orleans.

"Oh, The Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss tops this week's fiction list.

An RBI groundout by Jack Blomgren in the top of the 12th inning Thursday helped the Janesville Craig baseball team defeat host Madison Memorial 2-1 to clinch the Big Eight Conference championship.

The resolution creates community work groups to explore solutions to racial disparities and mental health challenges.

Crew chief Jim Joyce walked over to the mound, touched a shiny substance on Smith's arm and ejected the pitcher from the game.

As Gov. Scott Walker appeared before party faithful and touted a record of service to Wisconsin citizens, the open records revelations around the behavior of the Wisconsin Economic Development…

I was fortunate enough to attend the Saturday teach-in featuring Young, Gifted and Black Coalition member Brandi Grayson at St. Dunstan’s Episcopalian Church.

The only reasonable statement Bishop Harold Rayford made in Tuesday’s State Journal article “Black clergy members call for Kenny to resign” was to call on parents to talk with children about t…