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In exchange for the plea deal, Sharper has agreed to help the investigation into other defendants. 

BASEBALL

WAUSAU — The Madison Mallards game against the Wisconsin Woodchucks Friday night was postponed due to rain.

SPRING GREEN — Cousins Kylie Hoffman and Taylor Briehl have literally grown up playing catch together.

After suffering two losses to Verona during the Big Eight Conference regular season, the Madison East softball team got its revenge on Friday.

Kian O’Brien delivered two base hits and pitched the final three innings Friday night to lead the Madison La Follette baseball team to a 2-1 victory over Madison East in the Big Eight Conferen…

VIROQUA — Hard rain, claps of thunder and flashes of lightning sent the Madison Edgewood track and field teams to the shelter of their bus Friday night.

Behind four first-place finishes, the Beloit Memorial girls track and field captured the team championship at Friday’s Janesville Parker sectional.

Kelsey Card punched a ticket to the NCAA outdoor track and field championships on Friday, setting a Big Ten Conference women’s discus record in the process.

Reliever Corey Knebel surrenders the decisive runs.

Justified Anger, a coalition of African-American community members, released “Our Madison Plan” Friday, a framework for addressing racial disparities. Among the coalition’s goals and ideas:

More than 700 people attended Friday's announcement of "Our Madison Plan" by the Justified Anger coalition.

One of two ace pitchers on the Redbirds staff spends his night off from baseball anchoring two relay teams to victory at the Division 3 Bangor sectional.

Big cheers for the U.S. Justice Department crackdown on alleged corruption in FIFA, soccer’s international governing body.

We were in Des Moines, Iowa, for our granddaughter’s graduation on Memorial Day weekend, but many high school kids in our motel had come to town for the state track meet.

When I first moved to Madison I was very impressed with the police. I felt very safe and comfortable around them. Until lately.

May is Asthma Awareness Month. As someone who has a sister with asthma, I’m doing my part to raise awareness about a major trigger for asthma attacks: secondhand smoke.

The other day I came out of a grocery store rolling my full cart and mentally checking off another errand finished. 

If the GOP wants to move state offices out of Dane County, they should look for office space in Iowa. I'm sure it's cheaper there, and that's where the governor spends his time these days.

A provision in Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed state budget to cap Wisconsin’s highly successful historic tax credit program would cripple a vital redevelopment tool that is turning around commun…