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Madison hit three home runs, but the Wisconsin Woodchucks used a 17-hit attack to hand the Mallards a 10-7 loss in a Northwoods League amateur baseball game Thursday night at Warner Park.

Monona police pursued James Culver Jr. on the Beltline, before ending the chase, police said. He was later found in a wooded area and arrested on multiple offenses, authorities said.

Also, the board approved making the change to 18-minute halves in basketball permanent.

If a motorist was driving down U.S. Highway 12 on a Sunday afternoon, he might drive over the Rock River, right into the heart of Fort Atkinson. …

It was not known if tentative charges against Laird had been dropped. Laird left the jail at about 7:45 p.m.

Life for Bo Ryan these days consists of a lot of time on the golf course.

But mall owners CBL & Associates wouldn't discuss security specifics at its properties.

Shelton Kingcade will serve up to 13 years in prison for sexually assaulting two 13-year-old girls in the 1990s, one over a period of years.

“I believe in an America always moving toward the future.”

Professional golf will make its Madison debut today when the first round of the PGA Tour Champions American Family Insurance Championship is played at University Ridge Golf Course.

MINOCQUA -- Colin Steck and Nathan Lorenz keep reeling in the titles.

Donald Trump is suggesting the United States should “seriously” consider profiling Muslims as other countries do, such as Israel. We need to remind him and his followers that America is not Israel.

I’m a veteran of a couple tours in Vietnam, mostly as a very green platoon sergeant in the Central Highlands. I can say, with absolute certainty, any civilian who wants to own and possess military-style firearms is a crackpot or…

If we accept the Madison Police Department's version of events at East Towne Mall, Genele Laird was inside the mall when her cell phone was stolen and she became very upset about it.

I don't understand.

As was earlier suggested, take the $400,000 earmarked for a study of the Madison Police Department and purchase police body cameras.

The Bernie Sanders phenomenon is not a movement.

The company is still looking at a variety of locations for its new headquarters.

In successive fashion, a group of Madison city council members and Mayor Paul Soglin weighed in Thursday on Laird's arrest, the use of force and an upcoming study into the Madison Police Department.

A Wisconsin Republican has proposed legislation discouraging private business from banning guns. The would bill would allow victims of gun violence to sue businesses with such bans and recover triple the damages.