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Armand Meier, 69, was not injured in the crash and was taken to the Rock County Jail, while James Savoie, 64, and Helen Savoie, 63, both of Caro, Michigan, were transported to Mercy Hospital a…

It has been 15 Christmases since my mother passed. But I can’t help remembering all the lessons she taught me — especially what Christmas is all about.

Since 1918, the Empty Stocking Club has provided Christmas toys to needy children in the greater Madison area. You can help again this year. Send your gift online at emptystockingclub.com or m…

A Madison Police Department squad car was damaged and an officer was slightly injured when the the car "left the roadway" and struck an Arby's restaurant at 4002 E. Washington Ave. Thursday morning.

The needy children in the Madison area, some 12,387 at last count, will wake up this morning and discover that Santa has left them some beautiful new gifts.

Lawren Lange was 21, going to art school and working three part-time jobs when a nun’s question changed her life.

MADISON, WI, December 17, 2014 - First Business Bank announced today that Alton Multhauf has been promoted to Treasury Management Officer. First Business Bank is a part of First Business Finan…

Kathy Elvert is celebrating her 15th year of service with Wilson Law Group, LLC, a Madison based estate and business planning law firm. Kathy is the firm's senior paralegal and manages the est…

For those willing to keep their knee jerking in check, there may be things worth learning -- and celebrating -- in this officer-involved-shooting-that-wasn’t.

As Christians celebrate the birth of Christ, pastors offer thoughts on the religious significance.

Gloria Reyes brings her commitment to the city of Madison and her connections to the community to her new role as assistant to the mayor. 

Hear Madison Youth Choirs' most advanced singers perform "The Holly and the Ivy."

As if the linemen needed any more motivation to protect the quarterback from the fearsome defensive front of the Detroit Lions on Sunday.

GREEN BAY — Of all the low down dirty tricks the Detroit Lions have tried hoping to snap their 23-game losing streak on Wisconsin soil, the latest one might be the lowest.

Bobbie Kelsey knew her University of Wisconsin women’s basketball team would have a challenge as it tried to climb a rung or two on the Big Ten Conference ladder this season.

For a while, Barry Alvarez’s family Christmas dinner over the weekend felt like any other year.

I always dreamed of becoming a professional cartoonist. I distinctly remember looking at a “Calvin and Hobbes” book and thinking that drawing cartoons looked like an easy way to make lots of money.

Beverly "Bev" Dunn Philumalee, who ran the diner Bev's Restaurant and embodied the East Side, died on Dec. 21. She was 83.

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A final decision on leveling tariffs on Chinese makers of trucking containers is due in the first half of 2015.