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PITTSBURGH — Vance Worley worked six effective innings and the Pittsburgh Pirates snapped out of a lengthy slump to top the Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 on Friday night.

The outfielder ends the game on the first pitch she sees in the bottom of the seventh inning to keep her team undefeated.

There I was, sitting against some young black oaks, with nothing but a few turkey calls and a 12 gauge shotgun. I should have had my Canon.

“No one got more exposure than we did through the Final Four,’’ UW athletic director Alvarez said. “I can’t even imagine the cost of that publicity. There’s no way you could afford it.’’

Sturgeon spawning has begun on the Wolf River and recent high temperatures, and correspondingly warmer waters are lending toward predictions of a quick, intense run, which may last less than a…

Eight companies made it through the mentorship program. 

Madison Edgewood’s Amy Davis is a Kansas Relays track and field champion.

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week. 

I want to express my thanks for the excellent care I received recently at Veterans Hospital in Madison. 

Richard III

Later this month, Arlene Silveira's nine years of exemplary service on the Madison School Board will come to an end. She provided leadership for three referendums campaign and continuity throu…

Have you given much thought to the job of a teacher in public schools today?

Quick actions of a friend led to the rescue of a couple from Junction City, who were taken to a hospital in Milwaukee.

An expert in the terminal muscular disease that afflicts a former Dane County sheriff's deputy who killed his wife and her sister last summer testified Friday that he has never seen a patient …

Other animals in the same household as a confirmed case have since tested negative.

On a widely bipartisan basis, Congress has asserted a right to vote on any eventual agreement on Iran’s potential nuclear weapons program. Considering the extraordinary stakes, the same spirit…

A Madison man was charged with two felonies Friday following his arrest on Thursday, after state investigators said he posted an ad on Craigslist looking for a teenage girl to have sex with him.

Chancellor Rebecca Blank said the cuts announced Friday will start to help bridge but not fill the budget hole.

Rudy Ramirez-Millan and Juan Aguilar-Vargas, both 27, were arrested on tentative charges of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse.

MADISON/BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. - Patricia Ann Gaffney, age 76, passed away on Friday, April 10, 2015, at her home in Bonita Springs, Fla. She was born on April 7, 1939, in Rockford, Ill. to the …