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Columbia County authorities on Tuesday identified the woman killed in a crash Monday afternoon as a 22-year-old mail carrier.

Pope Francis recently compromised Biblical authority by suggesting the Big Bang and evolution don’t contradict the Biblical account of creation.

The Madison Forestry Department last year published a list of possible responses to emerald ash borer. Now that emerald ash borer is here, forestry has chosen the largest and most expensive of…

At 81 years of age, I should be out in the yard raking leaves, because it is beneficial for an old fart to have a bit of exercise.

America, stop worrying about Ebola. Your chances of getting it are unimaginably small. You are worrying about the wrong things.

I'm responding the Monday letter "Vouchers benefit the poor and middle class." In fact, the majority of voucher funds have gone to parents whose children are already enrolled in a private scho…

I am a student at UW-River Falls. On campus I notice a sign stating the university bans guns on the premise. Every time I pass the sign, I only think about the threat to our communities from d…

There’s ample evidence that says rebuilding Purdue is one of the most improved football teams in the Big Ten Conference this season. You just have to seek it out.

With two daughters on the team, coach Yvette Updike hopes her Hillmen can make history at state tournament

The former office manager for a Madison dental office allegedly took more than $166,000 in cash and checks from the office over a four-year period, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.

Founded in 2010, SHINE also has a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy. 

The polls close at 8 p.m.

Jeffrey C. Hilgers, 42, of Madison, who worked in the Dane County Jail, is charged with second-degree sexual assault for having a sexual relationship with a jail inmate who was confined to her…

Alterra Bank is now part of First Business, based in Madison.

The site on West Main Street where St. Raphael Cathedral once stood was properly taxed by the city of Madison in 2013 because the church's leaders missed a deadline to seek a religious exempti…

Sam Dekker continues to make progress as he works his way back from a left ankle injury he sustained in practice on Oct. 24.

MONONA - Rodney H. Rossdeutscher, age 88, of Monona, passed away on Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, at Agrace HospiceCare.

MADISON - Kenneth A. Schumacher, age 91, died on Monday, Nov. 3, 2014, in Madison.

MILTON - Mary Eileen (Griffin) Wright died Oct. 31, 2014, at age 92. She was born in Baraboo in 1922.

MADISON - Edith Bernice "Pat" Holzhueter Roth, age 75, passed away at home on Saturday, Nov. 1, 2014. She was born in Waukegan, Ill., the daughter of Jerome and Bernice (Roland) Felt.