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Authorities have asked that whoever locates the animal doesn't try to capture it.

There are 9,580 reasons why you should wear a seat belt when in a vehicle: That's how many unbelted people were killed three years ago in crashes in the U.S.

Don't trade in your hands and feet for an extra index finger just yet

A high school graduation party that got out of hand on the West Side Saturday night drew hundreds of people to the home of the "popular" girl who hosted the party, leading to numerous 911 calls by irate neighbors and…

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton are the only other NFL players with their own logos.

Testimony in a federal court trial Monday centered on a petition process for those requesting a free ID to vote.

The campaign has been gradually reducing its $1.2 million debt from the end of 2015. According to campaign finance records, the campaign owed $898,676 at the end of April, down about $50,000 from the previous month.

The 12-year-old boy killed on Friday while riding a motorized dirt bike across a highway has been identified as Maxwell Behmke of rural Neosho.

BARABOO -- The trouble with ridiculing Wisconsinites is we don’t realize we’re being put down. In fact, we take most insults as compliments.

Kin Kin Coffee opens in Festival Foods near two other businesses owned by founders Kyle and Gwen Johnson.

A UW-Madison scientist says a method he developed to predict flu virus mutations could make the annual flu vaccine more effective by better matching it to the flu strains that circulate each flu season.

Warm temperatures, low humidity, strong winds and very dry vegetation have combined to prompt state officials to ban burning in a dozen counties of northern Wisconsin on Monday.

A La Crosse man was shot twice in the abdomen Friday night during a fight in Viola, with the man allegedly doing the shooting also injured in the fight.

A man outside an East Side strip club was mugged early Monday morning, the victim losing his wallet in the strong-arm robbery.

Two people, one from Madison and one from Fitchburg, were killed Sunday afternoon in Rock County, with the crash tying up traffic on Highway 14 for about five hours.

Relatives of a Madison man who died under confusing circumstances in Jamaica last month want the death investigated.

Madison Police Chief Mike Koval calls the arrangement "a malady that has laid siege to our department."

Despite an ongoing prevalence of chickens, ours is not a farm in the professional sense, but I was nonetheless under some pressure this spring to get the crops in. (OK, crop, singular.) But still one must till! (OK, scratch up…

Viruses like influenza or HIV mutate very rapidly. The immune response from a vaccine needs to cope with this level of variability in the virus.