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MADISON - Stanley I. Kutler, Professor Emeritus of American History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who specialized in U.S. legal and constitutional history, the Vietnam War, and the W…

PORTAGE - Dorothy Macfarlane, age 87, of Portage, passed away on Monday, April 6, 2015, at her home.

JUNCTION CITY/MONONA - Louis L. Heitzinger, age 86, passed away on Tuesday, April 7, 2015. A full obituary will appear at a later date.

MOUNT HOREB / PRIMROSE TOWNSHIP - Dagmar "Dottie" Brandt, age 95, of Mount Horeb, died on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, at Ingleside Nursing Home.

MADISON - Steven Robert "Reno" Genna, age 47, passed away on Wednesday, April 8, 2015, in Mauston. Funeral arrangements are pending.

MADISON / MCFARLAND - Andrew Emjellem Jensen (a.k.a. Andrew J. O'Brien), age 21, passed away on March 25, 2015.

Jordan Blochwitz, sr., P, Poynette: Capitol North Conference Pitcher of the Year and an All-District and All-State honorable mention selection.

A Republican member of the lands board wants to fire its executive secretary, the daughter of Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson.

Voters overwhelmingly want the siren blasts to continue

From the time President Franklin Roosevelt incorporated the Reciprocal Tariff Act into the New Deal, opening new markets to American products and helping to pave the way for America’s emergenc…

A former UW-Madison student who sexually assaulted another student in her campus dorm room last year was sentenced Wednesday to three years of probation for false imprisonment.

Legislators, city leaders and Milwaukee County officials have been sparring for months over proposals to fund a new arena that could guarantee the franchise stays in Milwaukee.

Brewmaster Ashley Kinart dips into experimental hops for a dank, sticky IPA that drinks like marijuana in a glass.

What it is: A classic American sandwich, though Americans are hardly the only ones to melt cheese in grilled bread (croque-monsieur, anybody?).

There’s good and bad news today. The good news is that Lake Mills reader Ann Garthwait’s January request for the “pressed duck in a peanut sauce” she enjoyed at the Grand Pagoda before it clos…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Madison's mayor builds on his legacy with an easy re-election.

It wasn’t that they won all those games, reaching the Final Four and then some.

This week's recipe received honorable mention in the State Journal's casseroles category in 1991 and was submitted by Eva Wolf of Mazomanie.

Every Wisconsin school child learns that in the summer of 1673 fur trader Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette traveled across Wisconsin to the Mississippi and then down the great river n…

Rolling Stone screwed up.