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WILD ROSE - Dixie L. Edgren, age 77, of Wild Rose, Wis., passed away on Thursday, March 12, 2015, at Wisconsin Veterans Home, King, Wis. Dixie was born in Wild Rose on April 2, 1937, the daugh…

MADISON - Aileen Ruth (Slocumb) Irwin, age 89, entered the Glory of God at Agrace HospiceCare on March 10, 2015.

BARABOO - Richard Dean "Dick" Lusby passed away on Thursday, March 12, 2015, in Baraboo, at the age of 90. Richard, son of Rollo and Hilda (Blakeslee) Lusby was born Sept. 19, 1924, in Baraboo.

Jackson, out since Jan. 11, hopes to be cleared to practice Monday and be in uniform when UW begins NCAA tournament play next week.

ASHWAUBENON — All season long, the Whitewater girls basketball team has been pummeling its opponents.

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

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A mental health researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison won't take newborn monkeys away from their mothers as part of an upcoming study.

A former Veterans Hospital lab worker used information stolen from VA records, from mail stolen from her neighbors and information purchased on the Internet to obtain credit cards and access o…

Player of the game Sam Dekker did a little bit of everything in the Badgers' 71-60 victory Friday at the United Center in Chicago.

But a report found her staff mishandled complaints.

Sam Dekker leads the way with 17 points, six rebounds, six assists and three steals for Badgers (29-3), who will play Purdue or Penn State on Saturday.

A Madison man was arrested following two random attacks on State Street early Friday morning.

Tony Robinson was shot in the head, torso and "right upper extremity," said Barry Irmen, director of operations for the Medical Examiner's Office.

MCD is now owned 100 percent by its 57 employees.

A Madison man was arrested after he allegedly pointed a handgun at two women in a home on Madison’s Far East Side early Thursday morning.

A New Glarus man was arrested Thursday after he was found slumped over the wheel of a van that was stopped in traffic on Madison’s Far West Side.

In a recent Quinnipiac poll released, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was the leading choice of Republican voters to be their 2016 presidential nominee. That is quite the surge for Gov. Walker, wh…

A 20 year-old Madison man was arrested Thursday in connection to an armed robbery on the East Side on Feb. 15.

A Janesville man faces a sixth OWI charge after being  arrested Thursday by Janesville police.

An Indiana driver was seriously injured in a suspected drunk-driving crash after hitting six other vehicles over a one-mile stretch through Stoughton on Thursday afternoon.