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I suspect the oak tree on the Capitol Square snapped after years of trying to cope with the increasing overload of the fumes from the buses, methane gases from the cows and humans, and carbon monoxide from the cars, and…

It feels like summer just started, but already we prepare for autumn and the fall equinox.

Panhandlers don't want jobs. Why should they when they have people handing them money all day long.

A Madison Area Technical College teacher is ridiculed for sharing his faith in God with a couple of students. Meanwhile, President Obama would prefer to play golf rather than visiting or aiding the people of flooded Baton Rouge.

This letter is for bicyclists.

Gov. Scott Walker requested a $1.3 billion loan for the transportation budget. Wisconsin legislators reduced the amount of the loan to $850 million. Now 20 cents out of every dollar in the transportation budget goes to debt payments.

Steven Avery's attorney wants to date blood and DNA evidence to see if it was planted and says the results will show that someone else killed Teresa Halbach.

Yadiel Nunez-Munoz, 20, of Orlando, Florida, was convicted of shooting 26-year-old Alvaro Avila-Jimenez on April 26, 2014.

Most of us feel deeply about our right to free speech.

A former Madison police officer, convicted of taking nearly $4,000 during a sting operation last year that was aimed at him, was sentenced Friday to two years of probation after a federal judge said the crime was brought about more…

LANCASTER - Rosemary Wolf, age 64, of Lancaster, passed away on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016, surrounded by her loving family by her side, at Orchard Manor Nursing Home, after a courageous battle with ALS. She was born on Feb. 8,…

MOUNT HOREB / KYLE, Texas - Cynthia L. Sutter, age 58, of Kyle, Texas, died on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2016. Funeral arrangements are pending at the Ellestad Camacho Funeral Home, 500 N. 8th St., Mount Horeb, Wis.

The bucks are coming. The bucks are coming.In fact, they are already here looking for any little upright sapling, shrub or small tree to ram against in the dark of night.

VERONA - The right opportunity presented itself to Monk's Bar and Grill.

Hillary Clinton continues to vow that she’ll undo the Supreme Court’s decision in the 2010 Citizens United case, promising to introduce a constitutional amendment restricting corporate campaign activities if elected president.

Coach Greg Gard says when the Badgers face their in-state rivals, it will be at the Kohl Center.

Only eight players, including six starters, in UW's two-deep depth chart on offense and defense are seniors.

Social programs have failed urban poor

Mike St. John found his neighbor, Brian Grittner, seated in a pond of pink insulation in what remained of his Fitchburg home. Two explosions had just leveled the building, leaving Grittner, prone and incoherent, but alive.

Fabulous Food — the kind that deserves upper-case F’s — doesn’t have to be complicated.