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Prep girls basketball: All-time scoring leader Allison Hughes helps Craig clinch Big Eight title share

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:15pm
Senior Allison Hughes, who became the school’s all-time leading scorer (954 points), had 22 points, including five 3-pointers, as host Janesville Craig clinched at least a share of the Big Eig…

Prep boys basketball: Mason DeNoyer sinks a game-winning 3-pointer for Lakeside Lutheran

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:15pm
Junior wing Mason DeNoyer sank an off-balance 3-point shot at the buzzer to give the Lakeside Lutheran boys basketball team a 45-42 victory over host Watertown Luther Prep in Capitol North Con…

Prep girls basketball: Edgerton, Cuba City finish regular season strong

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:15pm
Freshman Bethany Oren and sophomore Kellan Schmidt scored 14 points apiece to lead host Edgerton to a 46-36 victory against McFarland in a Rock Valley North Conference girls basketball game Th…

WIAA hockey: Madison West knocks out defending state boys champion Verona

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:15pm
There was no stopping Cole Paskus on Thursday night.

Prep boys basketball: Deerfield rolls to remain a game back in Trailways South

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 11:15pm
Junior guard Blake Ehrke finished with 20 points, 19 rebounds, and surpassed 1,000 career points to lead host Deerfield over Beaver Dam Wayland Academy 69-28 in a Trailways South Conference bo…

Badgers women's basketball: Slow start dooms UW vs. No. 5 Maryland

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 10:30pm
The Terrapins jump out to a 17-4 lead at the Kohl Center and hold on to beat the Badgers.

WIAA section fan guide: Special events on the schedule

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 7:46pm
The milestone event that is the 100th WIAA state boys basketball tournament will include many new attractions to the tournament weekend.

Outdoors: Sturgeon spearing season could close as soon as Saturday

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 7:16pm
Thursday's harvest of 52 adult females didn't quite get the season to the 90 percent closure mark and the sturgeon spearing season on Lake Winnebago will continue at least through Friday.

Charles Krauthammer: Abolish filibuster to radically change next two years

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 7:00pm
WASHINGTON — I’ve been radicalized. By Harry Reid and Barack Obama. Goodbye moderation and sweet reason. No more clinging to constitutional and procedural restraint. It’s time to go nuclear.

Dairy farm's Grade A permit suspended after owners served raw milk that sickened football team

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 7:00pm
Suspension follows one of the state's largest raw-milk disease outbreaks, officials say.

Bucks: Brandon Knight traded to Phoenix, Michael Carter-Williams, two others acquired in three-way trade

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 6:30pm
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Bucks are not standing pat on their surprising season.

In a tale of two nations, this winter's weather is both toasty and cold

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 6:15pm
Despite this week's brutal cold, Wisconsin is in line with the rest of the globe with a warmer-than-normal winter.

Walker's $5 tax cut has high cost -- Linda Pils

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 6:00pm
What can you buy for $5? At Metcalfe’s you can buy a box of Apple Jacks cereal, at Walgreens a box of comfort-flex Band-Aids, and at Target a sticker set can be yours for only $4.99. Sorry, th…

Walker might be Bush running mate -- Brian Brown

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 6:00pm
I doubt Scott Walker can make it to the office of president. Enter the Bush Factor.

Walker's budget is a power grab -- Jeffrey Baylis

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 6:00pm
The document Gov. Scott Walker sent to the Legislature is not really a budget. It is a policy document, sweeping in its scope, disguised as a budget.

Public broadcasting key to dreaming big -- Frances Huntley-Cooper

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 6:00pm
The State Journal coverage about budget cuts to the University of Wisconsin System included a Feb. 8 story about UW-Extension public broadcasting services. Wisconsin Public Television and Wisc…

Despite joke, Reagan encouraged service -- Ernie Pellegrino

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 6:00pm
I was sorry to read the letter in Monday's paper by the writer who felt she and her husband, who both have jobs involving the university and the state, were the butt of what she considers a “b…

Badgers men's basketball: A peek at the 2015-16 Big Ten schedule

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 5:24pm
Is it too early to look ahead to the 2015-16 college men's basketball season?

Closing for-profit college board would cost state money, board says as it fights to survive

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 5:11pm
The board, established under a different name just after World War II, is fighting back, insisting that leaving no oversight will ultimately hurt students and could harm schools in the Univers…

Paul Soglin, City Council members propose employee pay increase

Thu, 02/19/2015 - 5:00pm
Proposal would use savings from lower fuel prices to add 0.75 percent pay increase.

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